Will Navidsons Nerven liegen blank. Sein neu gekauftes Haus hat plötzlich Türen, wo keine sein dürften. Dahinter: der Zugang zu einem Höhlensystem, das sich ständig verändert. Bei dessen Erforschung kommt es zu mysteriösen Zwischenfällen. Wohin verschwinden die Menschen im Labyrinth? Welcher Schrecken wartet in der Dunkelheit? Das Haus gilt als "die literarische Sensation des 21. Jahrhunderts", seine Umsetzung als Hörspiel schrieb Radiogeschichte: Erstmals wurden drei WDR-Hörspiel-Versionen eines Romans simultan auf drei Wellen gesendet. Jetzt gibt’s dieses Ereignis als Hör-DVD – für unbegrenztes Horror-Zapping.

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering.

Thomas Quinn is having a hard time. A failed novelist, he's stuck writing short stories and audio scripts for other people's characters. His wife, Imogen, is working on a remote island halfway around the world, and talking to her over the webcam isn't the same. The bills are piling up, the dirty dishes are stacking in the sink, and the whole world seems to be hurtling toward entropic collapse. Then he gets a voicemail from his father, who has been dead for seven years.

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar; the journalist Jostein is out on the town; and his wife, Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is.

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten new tales of cosmic horror in Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of twenty-first century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.