John Langan (born July 6, 1969) is an American author and writer of contemporary horror.

Langan has been a finalist for International Horror Guild Award.

John Langan received his Masters of Arts degree from State University of New York at New Paltz and his Master of Philosophy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

He was an instructor at State University of new York at New Paltz, where he taught creative writing and gothic fiction, between 2000 and 2018.

In the novel acknowledgements he writes “This book had a hard time finding a home: the genre people weren’t happy with all the literary stuff; the literary people weren’t happy with all the genre stuff.”[3]