Sarah Langan

The 2009 Bram Stoker Awards for horror literature have some incredible nominees on this year's ballot!

Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan for Superior Achievement in a Novel; The Black Act by Louise Bohmer for Superior Achievement in a First Novel; Blanket of White by Amy Grech for Superior Achievement in a Short Fiction; Poe and Lovecraft Unbound, both edited by Ellen Datlow for Superior Achievement in a Anthology; and Morbid Curiosity Sings the Blues edited by Loren Rhoads for Superior Achievement in a Nonfiction are all contenders.

Interview by Alan Kelly

Sarah Pinborough is primarily a horror writer with forays into science-fiction, thrillers, media tie-ins and more personal tales of magic realism and mortality. To date she has written six paperback originals for Leisure books, a novella for PS Publishing and a series of short stories for numerous anthologies. The content of her work is as it comes, sick, funny and nastier than a sack full of burning ferrets on a bonfire. I was greatly impressed by her stab at the creature feature subgenre with Feeding Ground – set in the same universe as Breeding Ground (On my own TBR list) – women suddenly become grotesquely obese and give birth to ravenous giant spider, and a Kingpin discovers a way to control some of them, with crack cocaine...

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?"...

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.

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!

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...

Written 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...