John Langan writes: "I'm a champion of the idea that it's possible to write great horror stories at novel length. So when I sat down to come up with twenty horror books that have meant a lot to me, I thought it would be fun to focus my list on novels. The list I wound up with, however, was (a lot) longer than I'd anticipated..."
"So much for arguments against the horror novel. I also realized that there was another list I should give alongside this one, and that's of novels I keep meaning to get to but haven't yet..."
"Mea culpa. Finally, I felt I should give a few titles that, while not horror novels in the strictest sense of the term, seemed at least cousins of those I'd already listed."
