Langan, Sarah
Entry updated 19 October 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1974- ) US author who focused on horror in her earlier career, for which she has won several awards, beginning to publish work of genre interest with "Heat" in EOTU Ezine for December 2000. Her first novel, The Keeper (2006), begins the Keeper sequence of horror tales. Her first work of strong sf interest is the Near Future Good Neighbors (2021), a Horror in SF tale recounting in Satirical terms the disintegrative consequences on a Long Island community of the sudden appearance of a sinkhole. The centre does not hold. A Better World (2024) is set rather farther into a Near Future America suffering from social disintegration and the impelling catastrophe of Climate Change; the protagonists, properly desperate from anxieties, migrate to a small seemingly traditional town of Plymouth Valley which (see again Horror in SF) not unexpectedly proves to be a trap, a non-exit Zone. A Feminist current in the tale deepens when the protagonist is gaslit by her husband after she tells him that not all is well in paradise. [JC]
Sarah Langan
born Mineola, New York: 1974
works
series
The Keeper
- The Keeper (New York: HarperTorch, 2006) [The Keeper: pb/]
- Virus (London: Headline, 2007) [The Keeper: hb/]
- The Missing (New York: Harper, 2007) [vt of the above: The Keeper: pb/]
individual titles
- Audrey's Door (New York: Harper, 2009) [pb/]
- Good Neighbors (New York: Simon and Schuster/Atria, 2021) [hb/]
- A Better World (New York: Simon and Schuster/Atria, 2024) [hb/]
- Pam Kowolski Is a Monster! (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2025) [pb/]
- Bloody 13 (place not known: Pink Beam Press, 2026) [pb/]
- Trad Wife (New York: Simon and Schuster/Atria, 2026) [hb/]
collections and stories
- The Lost (Baltimore, Maryland: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2008) [story: chap: pb/Keith Minnion]
- Squid Teeth (New York: Tor.com, 2025) [novelette: ebook: pb/Chloé Biocca]
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