"'No man may have me, unless he's beaten me in a fair fight.'- Red Sonja, Red Sonja (1985)"
Sarah Langan
Hellbound Hearts (2009)
Submitted by TheCommune on 10/22/2009
Featuring stories from by Paul Kane, Marie O'Regan, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Mike Mignola, Kelley Armstrong, Barbie Wilde, Sarah Langan, Mick Garris, Steve Niles
Reviewed by Lis Fies
I do have something new to ask Mick and Cynthia Garris at horror functions. "Hi Mick and Cynthia. So Mick, when your washed-up British-director character was suspended in the air while mid-insertion into his cute female PA and the cenobites filmed them while they had their skin and bones ripped apart by machines, was that a metaphor for how you have no privacy? Mick? Where are you going? Can we watch?"...
Sarah Langan's horror novel 'Audrey's Door' in stores now
Submitted by Superheidi on 09/30/2009
I don't know if you remember us talking about Sarah Langan's latest horror novel Audrey's Door (actually, we said, “Audrey’s Door is the so-far culmination of her literary efforts, and fans of her previous work will agree that this is her best story yet”), but you can now download a PDF of it for free here!
The print version is in stores since yesterday. It's at your local airport, WalMart, Target, B&N, Borders, and indie booksellers. Or, buy online through HarperCollins.
Watch the book trailer.
Sarah Langan Partners with James Rollins on 'The Blood Gospel' Series!
Submitted by Superheidi on 08/28/2009
Bram Stoker-award winning author Sarah Langan has officially partnered with author James Rollins to write The Blood Gospel Series, Books I-III for publication in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Rollins writes thrillers, and Langan straight horror. What will this series be about?
"I am delighted that James Rollins selected me as a writing partner," says Langan, "and expect to learn a lot from him. He's not just talented, but a good egg, and I can't wait to get started. The premise for this series will blow your mind!"
We'll keep you posted on more news!
Anthology 'Hellbound Hearts' features story by 'Female Cenobite' Barbie Wilde
Submitted by Superheidi on 08/25/2009
Actress/writer Barbie Wilde, best known for her performance as the one female Cenobite in the Hellraiser film series, has a new story called 'Sister Cilice' featured in the new anthology Hellbound Hearts - twenty-one tales inspired by Clive Barker’s Hellraiser universe (out Sept 29, 2009 in bookstores.) The merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites is the setting for these stories.
Edited by Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan, the anthology also features the work of six other female authors including Kelley Armstrong and Sarah Langan...
Audrey's Door (2009)
Submitted by Superheidi on 08/07/2009Written by Sarah Langan
Harper - Available Sept 23, 2009
Audrey’s Door is the latest horror novel from Sarah Langan, who gave us The Keeper and The Missing, and it channels Polanski’s The Tenant along with a little bit of Rosemary’s Baby (which are both listed as inspirations in the preface) along with a creepy almost ‘Henry James’ attitude towards New York City and its inhabitants. Langan has a great talent for character development if, despite the intensity of the plots, good tends to triumph over evil (I never like that) and things get wrapped up nice and tidy in the last chapters of her novels. Nevertheless, Audrey Lucas is a creation with whom a chick can really identify; she’s insecure, complex, and caught up in a severely screwed up and macabre situation in her new apartment building where the other tenants are more than a bit odd...
Sarah Langan ('The Keeper', 'The Missing')
Submitted by Superheidi on 08/10/2008
Sarah Langan is one of those young authors whose debut novel, The KeeperThe Keeper, soared to new heights on bestseller’s lists everywhere. It also won the 2007 Bram Stoker awards for Outstanding Novel. Her follow-up, The Keeper">The Missing, takes place in the same small town of Corpus Christi, Maine where people starts suffering from a mysterious illness that “changes” them internally as well as externally in ways no other sickness has ever affected human beings. This young outstanding horror author is also a Master’s candidate in Environmental Health and Toxicology, from which her novels derive much of their major underlying horrors. Her third novel, Audrey’s Door, is not related to The Keeper and The Missing but will still make your head explode from the horror.
The Missing (2007)
Submitted by Superheidi on 06/15/2008
Written by Sarah Langan
2008, Harper Collins
Langan's Website
If you missed Sarah Langan's debut horror novel The Keeper you really missed out. If you also didn’t get a chance to read The Missing (published as Virus in the UK), you REALLY missed out. The Missing is a violently fun little romp into a world where people drop like flies and turn into monsters. Oh, and they eat the people left. Langan sets her story in the same world as her first novel – the world of small towns like Corpus Christie and Bedford, Maine, where affluent families have terrible secrets that make their lives living hells. Literally.
The Keeper (2006)
Submitted by Superheidi on 09/05/2006
Written by Sarah Langan
2006 (Coming in September 2006)
Harper Torch, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishing Company
Review by Elizabeth Blue
Rather than going on for a couple of paragraphs to build up to what I really want to say about this book, I’m just going to say it right off the bat, and in the simplest terms possible. The Keeper rocks. I loved it. There. Got that out of the way. I feel better. I’ve been itching to tell a few people about this novel, but I held off until I finished it. Didn’t want to say something I might change my mind about after another 50 or 100 pages...
