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John Langan

John Langan is an American horror writer whose novels and collections connect personal loss, literary experimentation and encounters with forces beyond ordinary understanding. The Fisherman is his principal novel-length contribution to contemporary cosmic horror, but his relationship to Lovecraft also includes criticism, teaching and participation in a wider literary community.

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Laird Barron

Laird Barron is an American writer associated with cosmic horror, crime fiction and the contemporary weird. His fiction brings physically capable, often violent characters into contact with forces their experience cannot contain. The Old Leech material is his own developing mythology; his wider career also includes the Isaiah Coleridge crime novels.

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Michael Shea

Michael Shea (1946–2014) wrote fantasy, science fiction and horror, including direct continuations of Lovecraft and stories that bring cosmic danger into contemporary California. His fiction ranges from the resourceful thief Nifft to the bodily invasion of The Autopsy. The Mythos collection Demiurge and the posthumous novel Mr. Cannyharme show several different forms of his engagement with Lovecraft.

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Thomas Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti, born in Detroit in 1953, is an American writer whose weird fiction places consciousness, identity and the apparent structure of reality under pressure. His importance to the Lovecraftian tradition extends beyond shared monsters: he develops a distinctive literature of nightmare, artificiality, bleak humor and philosophical pessimism.

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