John Langan on Cosmic Horror

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John Langan on Cosmic Horror

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Dec 23, 2021

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Bram Stoker Award-winning author John Langan joins us to talk about cosmic horror, his novel The Fisherman, upstate New York, how much money writers make (none), and how hard it is to get published when you're a little too literary for the genre crowd but a little too genre for the literary crowd.
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Dec 23, 2021

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John Langan on Cosmic Horror

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