Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters Worth a Look

Though I cannot yet speak personally of the recent work by John Langan, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, it is picking up some chatter across online channels as an interesting new work of weird fiction. Published by Prime Books late last year, the short story collection by this new author is said to be very much in the style of Henry James, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, and several other icons of the classic weird. Incidentally, this appears to be the same John Langan who had an essay on Thomas Ligotti published in "Lovecraft Annual No. 1" a couple years ago.

It's somewhat odd that Langan's new book of short stories has remained under the radar of the astute community of weird readers until now. It may be because this is the author's first known collection of supernatural literature to appear. In any case, the praise this book has received in certain circles makes it one to track, if not pick up and examine for one's self, as this blogger intends to do in the near future.

-Grim Blogger