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Sarah Langan

Sarah grew up on Long Island and went to college in Waterville, Maine, where she published her first story, "Sick People". She got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Her influences include Russell Banks, Ray Bradbury, Philip K Dick, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Kelly Link, W Somerset Maugham, Lorrie Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Eudora Welty, the films of Ingmar Bergman and Will Ferrell, all media relating to Rodney Dangerfield, the movie The Jerk, and the band The Eels.

In addition to writing novels, she is also pursuing her Master's in Environmental Health Science/Toxicology at New York University.

Awards: Stoker (2009) see all

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

New and upcoming books

May 2026

Trad Wife

Series

Bedford Horror
   1. The Keeper (2006)
   2. The Missing (2007)
     aka Virus

Novels

   Audrey's Door (2009)
   Good Neighbours (2021)
   A Better World (2024)
   Squid Teeth (2025)
   Trad Wife (2026)

Collections

Apocalypse: Year Zero (2012) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

Is This Seat Taken? (2015)
Pam Kowolski Is a Monster! (2025)

Books containing stories by Sarah Langan

The End of the World as We Know It (2025)
edited by
Christopher Golden and Brian Keene

Elemental Forces (2024)
(Flame Tree Book of Horror, book 5)
edited by
Mark Morris

Revelations (2022)
Horror Writers for Climate Action
edited by
Seán O'Connor

More books

Awards

	2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel : Audrey's Door
	2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction : The Lost
	2007 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel : The Missing

Award nominations

	2025 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Squid Teeth
	2025 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Pam Kowolski Is a Monster!
	2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Audrey's Door
	2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel (nominee) : The Keeper

Sarah Langan recommends

The Widows of Winding Gale (2026)
Kealan Patrick Burke
"Atmospheric and intelligent, WINDING GALE mines the classic haunting story and invents something new. It's a joy to read."

Itch! (2025)
Gemma Amor
"A wildly inventive and modern coming of age story about survival . . . and ants. This is the work of a genuine talent."

How to Fake a Haunting (2025)
Christa Carmen
"How to Fake a Haunting is tight, clever, and expertly plotted. An impressive and heartfelt novel."

We Would Never (2025)
Tova Mirvis
"An urgent, insightful family drama about complicity and entitlement that could not be more timely. It's essential reading by a true talent."

No Road Home (2024)
John Fram
"A mesmerizing mash-up of murder mystery and modern gothic horror, No Road Home proves there are some familial bonds that redeem, but some are better off cut."

Incidents Around the House (2024)
Josh Malerman
"Hereditary meets Skinamarink: one of my favorite books of the year."

Horror Movie (2024)
Paul Tremblay
"Macabrely funny and incredibly smart, Horror Movie cements Tremblay's place as a master of horror. It encapsulates the unease of right now -a runaway culture of self-reference with bloody hands. It's everything a horror novel ought to be: lean, mean, and genuinely scary."

The Other Valley (2024)
Scott Alexander Howard
"Part Ishiguro, part Amis, and somehow all its own, The Other Valley marks the debut of a phenomenally talented writer. Pay attention."

The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers (2024)
Sarah Tomlinson
"Tomlinson's punky noir about rock stars and the quiet women behind them had me turning pages late into the night. Whether ghostwriters or talented groupies, it's about the voices in the silence, the devastation that the entitled leave behind."

One of the Good Guys (2024)
Araminta Hall
"The best book I've read in a long time. One of the Good Guys is a dark, whip-smart thriller that's also laugh-out-loud funny. Hall answers #metoo and the masculinity crisis with nuance and insight. A must read."

Thicker Than Water (2023)
Megan Collins
"Thicker Than Water is a complex and moving thriller about the stories we choose to believe, that sometimes paper over the very rotten things beneath."

You Are Here (2023)
Karin Lin-Greenberg
"With great insight and care, Lin-Greenberg chronicles the daily lives of neighbors connected to a local mall that's soon closing. You Are Here shows that times keep changing, but the American Dream persists."

The Nigerwife (2023)
Vanessa Walters
"The Nigerwife explores the ways a set of ex-pat women in Nigeria exchange autonomy for comfort. But it's a raw, and potentially fatal deal. A murderously good read!"

The Haunting of Alejandra (2023)
V Castro
"A powerful story about motherhood, trauma, love, and the ways that myths can and should be rewritten . . . If you're a horror fan and you haven't picked up V. Castro, you need to fix that."

Before We Were Innocent (2023)
Ella Berman
"Berman's an expert at the small moment, the Austen-esque tragicomedy of unspoken human desire that compounds into something too big to name, too awful to ignore."

The Golden Spoon (2023)
Jessa Maxwell
"A fantastically fun mystery with a perfect setting. It's Knives Out meets Agatha Christie. I was delightfully surprised throughout."

The Writing Retreat (2023)
Julia Bartz
"THE WRITING RETREAT is a sexy, thrilling, compulsive mediation on art and competition amongst women who ought to be sisters, only something malignant gets in the way. I couldn't put it down."

Sister, Maiden, Monster (2023)
Lucy A Snyder
"Sister, Maiden, Monster is the feminist Cronenberg I didn't know I needed. Gleeful, gory, and unrelenting."

Self-Portrait with Nothing (2022)
Aimee Pokwatka
"Self-Portrait with Nothing heralds a serious talent. It's a story that brims with life, ambition, and joy."

The Girl Who Outgrew the World (2022)
Zoje Stage
"A perfect blend of The Wizard of Oz meets Jerzy Kosinski, The Girl Who Outgrew the World reminds us of the parts of childhood too painful to remember, the people around us, who kept us small. But this time the story's rewritten: at last, it's the girl who gets to go on an epic hero's journey. Fabulous in every sense of the word."

The Violence (2022)
Delilah S Dawson
"A gorgeously creative and surprisingly gleeful story about the way violence infects every aspect of American life."

Beneath the Stairs (2022)
Jennifer Fawcett
"Beneath the Stairs is an audacious debut. With plotting as intricate and wild as the Hill House adaptation, it'll keep you guessing until the very end."

Dark Lullaby (2021)
Polly Ho-Yen
"With fabulous world-building and a plot so tight you could bounce a quarter off of it, Dark Lullaby is a Handmaid's Tale for the modern world, about the ways our human need for love can serve as both society's salvation, and its undoing."

Night of the Mannequins (2020)
Stephen Graham Jones
"Propulsive and poignant, capturing the mundane terror of adolescence, and adding that ever-so-essential dab of killer mannequin."

The Night Marchers (2016)
Daniel Braum
"Neil Gaiman with a dash of Kevin Brockmeter."

The Last Goddam Hollywood Movie (2013)
Cody Goodfellow and John M Skipp
"THE END OF CIVILIZATION HAS NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN."

Pain Cages (2011)
Paul Kane
"Paul Kane's fiction shows intelligence and imagination - he's a writer who's going places, and I can't wait to see what he comes up with next!"

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