John Langan

Wow.

So then it became like, you know, the writer, John Langan, Yep.

So John and I had a phone call once after I read The Fisherman, and it was so brilliant.

And I had to call him.

Yeah, so we're talking about reading for inspiration for Delta Green.

I'm a big fan of John Langan.

He wrote The Fisherman.

He's written a number of great short story collections.

It forces us to confront how grief, trauma, and possession are interpreted and recorded by a society that demands content.

Let's delve into number three on the ranking, The Fisherman by John Langan, published in twenty sixteen.

The framing of this book is deceptively quiet and grounded.

It is.

We're familiar.

The John Langan effect.

Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.

I love that.

Who are those authors?

John Langan, Paul Trimbley, Linda Addison, Lee Murray, Michael Sisko.

There's quite a few.

But those are the ones that I always come back to.

I've been hearing you talk about music for 30 years, and this is absolutely how it is.

The Fisherman is a novel by John Langan.

I just looked up The Fisherman because I thought it was maybe a band name, but it's not.

It's a book instead.

Like it just doesn't happen.

Like I, you know, John Langan's my hero, but like I text him and make fun of him all the time.

So like the

starstruck has passed with

a better title but this is less a story about the house and more story about the towns and the people in those two towns um and what happens when people from different backgrounds and different upbringings and different political perspectives and religious perspectives do have to come together, um, to like, look at a problem because the problem is going to tear everything apart if they don't.

And, uh, that's what you should expect is, you know, a good old fashioned scary thing, um, that I'm very proud to say, um, steven volk who wrote ghost watch he liked the book a lot and he blurbed it and that really means the world to me and um i've really been able to get like a lot of my heroes to blurb this one there's one coming i can't say who but he's gonna be on the front cover if he ever gives me the blurb he knows that he's going on the front cover i think he's keeping me waiting on purpose but I know that there are certain people who I really admire that have really enjoyed the book.

And if you trust the, uh, the words of people like Steven Volk, Michael Sisko, Kat Scully, um, John Collins, who's been on your program, um, and, uh, John Langan, who is the one who's keeping me waiting.

if you trust the words of these people I think you will like Amityville Awakens so I hope people enjoy it that's all I hope for and if you don't like it I still appreciate that you gave it a shot you know like I'm not one of these people who's like desperately checking Goodreads and being like