The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

Like every collection of short stories this was a bit up and down for me, but the highs vastly outweighed the lows, particularly the final story, Mother of Stone, the perfect mix of mythology, academia, body horror, and the uncanny that I didn't know I needed. John Langan's writing is lush and inventive and visceral, deliciously self-aware and very reminiscent of the horror I read and loved as a teenager in the nineties.

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, and not with a whimper, but with the bleak gusto of a low-budget horror movie.”