Every week, from now until the release of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND from @wordhorde.bsky.social, I will be posting a new installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions, where I'll be exploring some of the many influences that shaped the collection, and my own odd conception of the Hollow Earth.

I read an advance of this and found it a great mix of fun and weird and horrible. I know that sounds counterintuitive but it's not. Ordinary folks come in close contact with the inexplicable and are changed by it, unmade and remade.

New book by me, coming out VERY soon and with some amazing cover art by Matthew Revert - available to pre-order right now!

Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey (@orringrey.com) coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!

Shout out to @undertow.bsky.social , @badhandbooks.bsky.social , @grimscribepress.bsky.social , @wordhorde.bsky.social and @dimshores.bsky.social . I have not read a piece from any of these small print presses that wasn't amazing. The work they do is extraordinary. Go out and support them today!

Wow: @johnlangan.bsky.social’s “My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” from his collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions is so cool. Partway between Pale Fire and Stephen Bergs’s “Footnotes to An Unfinished Poem,” but, as always, pure horror, too. Much recommended. Hope it wins all the awards. Should

This month’s column is up at @nytimes.com! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...

Little Sunday new arrivals and restocks post! Excited to have these in the store…

#bookmail It’s always a cause for celebration when there’s a new @johnlangan.bsky.social collection from @wordhorde.bsky.social. And here it is: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Dig that @mrj81.bsky.social cover, too. A complete package from back to front.

#Bookmail 📚💙🩸(one belated as I've been working on Art) The ARC for the IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS novelization from @echohorror.com - thanks so much for sending, excited to finally say "Yes, I read Sutter Cane!" 😜 LOST IN THE DARK... The newest from @johnlangan.bsky.social & @wordhorde.bsky.social 🖤

@wordhorde.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social I can’t wait to dig into this! I waited for the physical book as I feel horror is best served by the feel of the text.

In today's #bookmail: a finished copy of the brilliant new horror collection LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by @johnlangan.bsky.social! I loved this book and you will, too! Order today from @wordhorde.bsky.social ⭐ And check out my Chthonica interview with John here: youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...

“Madame Painte: For Sale” by @johnlangan.bsky.social, org. pub. In BEHOLD! ODDITIES, CURIOSITIES, AND UNDEFINABLE WONDERS, ed. by Doug Murano, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017. Read in: LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by John Langan, pub. @wordhorde.bsky.social, 2025.

It’s amazing to find an author, read one book, and immediately realize you need their entire body of work. @johnlangan.bsky.social is that author. New book came today from @wordhorde.bsky.social w/ an autograph on a sticker! (I guess some book nerds can decide if they want their books marked on.)

More copies of @johnlangan.bsky.social’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions headed out today. Day 1: ✅ Day 2: ✅ Hoping to wrap things up tomorrow. 🤞 Thanks for supporting independent publishing!

#ICYMI - @thisishorror.bsky.social news from last Friday: www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u... Lost in the Dark & Other Excursions by @johnlangan.bsky.social - out now @wordhorde.bsky.social, The Fake Ghost by @nuzo.bsky.social - released *today* @deadskypub.bsky.social ... 1/2

Shirley Jackson Award-Nominated author Nadia Bulkin’s sophomore collection ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY drenches the reader in a sensory overload of power, belief, and horrifying transformation. PRE-ORDERS INCLUDE A SIGNED STICKER FROM THE AUTHOR: ghoulish.rip/product/issu... @nadiabulkin.bsky.social

Huge @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social order for the shop is officially on our shelves! Come check it out this week at Ghoulish Books!

New @johnlangan.bsky.social is shipping, but the ePub is already here. Goodbye free time for the next few days! And the first story starts in the second person singular. That takes guts.

Great news! We have started shipping out orders of @johnlangan.bsky.social’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. 🎉 Day 1: ✅ Is your copy in here? 🙀 Back at again tomorrow. Thanks for your continued patience!

It’s a wonderful coincidence that I’m on vacation the same week that John Langan’s new story collection dropped. Not only that, but the folks at Lovecraft eZine interviewed him too. It’s @johnlangan.bsky.social week! Links below. wordhorde.com/books/lost-i... www.youtube.com/live/dKrCDUG...

In the new episode of Chthonica, I interview horror legend @johnlangan.bsky.social about his new collection LOST IN THE DARK! We talk thalassophobia, apocalyptic anxieties, and... feral ghosts??👻 It's spoiler-free, so order the book from @wordhorde.bsky.social while you watch! youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc

If you've ever wished @johnlangan.bsky.social's cosmic horror classic THE FISHERMAN would get made into a movie, we've got news for you... it almost happened! And it'll blow your horror-lovin' mind when you learn who wanted to do it! youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...

the august horror list is live, feat. new books from @johnlangan.bsky.social @scumbelievable.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @patrickbarb.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social @daphnefama.bsky.social @steelhester.bsky.social @chucktingle.bsky.social & more!

It's once again time for the Friends of the Barron Read-along. This month Corpsemouth by @johnlangan.bsky.social. Also, @lairdbarron.bsky.social is in the hospital, I'm sure we all wish him the best but for more specific support you can follow him on Patreon. (Link Below.)

My conversation with @johnlangan.bsky.social on his new collection LOST IN THE DARK turns to the numinous as he describes a ghostly encounter. Plus: we compare John's view of the dif between horror & the weird with @lairdbarron.bsky.social's & @michaelcisco.bsky.social's! youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...

Happy Book Birthday to Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, the new collection of cosmic horror from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Fisherman, @johnlangan.bsky.social! 🥳

How could I have been so foolish as to forget it was NEW JOHN LANGAN DAY Cannot wait to dive into Lost in the Dark. I expect the usual creepy and bizarre goodness that has made @johnlangan.bsky.social one of my very favorite authors.

Top tip! If you order directly from the publisher @wordhorde.bsky.social, they will send you a DRM-free ePub gratis, but they also have been known to pop a bookmark and a sticker in the box when they mail you your book.

That's a wrap on the @johnlangan.bsky.social Read Along! 56 posts, 7k visitors, many comments and shares. Thanks to all who participated and don't be afraid to drop in to the subreddit to discuss Lost in the Dark, which is out August 5th from @wordhorde.bsky.social. www.reddit.com/r/JohnLangan...

Looking forward to getting lost in this

Happy book birthday to @johnlangan.bsky.social's LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS! This is a mesmerizing read, ingeniously inventive and downright scary. And Mr. Langan, our dear gentleman frightener, is one of the best guys you'll ever meet. Order your copy today! wordhorde.com/books/lost-i...

Happy Release Day, @johnlangan.bsky.social! I'm just waiting for my @wordhorde.bsky.social shipment notification and digital copy to hit my inbox. Exciting times ahead!

John Langan, the author of THE FISHERMAN, returns with 13 new tales of cosmic horror: www.amazon.com/Lost-Dark-Ot... Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by @victorlavalle.bsky.social. Join me Sunday for a conversation with @johnlangan.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrC...

Ozzy Osbourne may be gone, but rock ‘n’ roll lives on. Black Sabbath meets The Thing in Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth… wordhorde.com/books/an-aug...

Start building your TBR with these new horror releases coming in August! August Horror releases - Day 1 @patrickt.bsky.social @stephenrhoades.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social @moniqueasher.bsky.social @daniel-lorn.bsky.social @jimmyjuliano.bsky.social @johnchrostek.com @shaynagrissom.bsky.social

Wide Carnivorous Sky cover art by @santiagocaruso.bsky.social Corpsemouth and Lost in the Dark cover art by @mrj81.bsky.social All editions from the magnificent @wordhorde.bsky.social!

In no particular order: @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social because Sam is cool AF @tenebrouspress.bsky.social because they're weird pioneers @cursedmorsels.bsky.social because Eric is a champion @undertow.bsky.social because they suck you in @wordhorde.bsky.social because Ross publishes real treasures

Reading @johnlangan.bsky.social’s LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS, coming August 5 from @wordhorde.bsky.social. Wondrously clever. Devilishly frightening. You need this book. You aren’t ready for this book.

Reactor includes John Langan’s forthcoming collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions in their list of Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025. And gives John’s novel The Fisherman a shout-out. Check out the full list at: reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...

Do you read @johnlangan.bsky.social? Come join our community of over 250 acolytes of the black ocean as we read through Langan's work leading up to the release of Lost in the Dark from @wordhorde.bsky.social. www.reddit.com/r/JohnLangan...

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I am so looking forward to putting this book into readers’ hands!