Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
, by Langan, JohnNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780809572496 | 0809572494
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/26/2009
From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession. Fusing a literate sensibility with an appreciation for the traditions of weird writing, these stories demonstrate why John Langan has been called "an emerging master of the elegant macabre."