The Fisherman

Illusory, frightening, and deeply moving, The Fisherman is a modern horror epic. And its simply a must read Paul Tremblay

In upstate New York, within the woods, Dutchmans Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked and fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true.

When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each others company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumours of the Creek and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss them. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir.

It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.

An epic, yet intimate, horror novel. Langan channels M. R. James, Robert E. Howard and Norman Maclean. What you get is A River Runs Through It... straight to hell Laird Barron

Reading this, your mouth fills with worms. Just let them wriggle and crawl as they will, thoughdont swallow. John Langan is fishing for your sleep, for your soul. I fear hes already got mine Stephen Graham Jones

What starts as a slow, melancholy tale gains momentum and drops you head first into a churning nightmare from which you might escape, but youll never forget, and the memory of what you saw will change you forever Richard Kadrey

The Fisherman is a treasure, the kind of book you just want to snuggle up and shiver through. I cant say enough good things about the confidence, the patience, the satisfying cumulative power of this book. It was a pleasure to read from the first page to the last Victor LaValle

Stories within stories, folk tales becoming modern legends, all spinning into a fishermans tale about the one he wishes had gotten away. Langans latest is at turns epic and personal, dense yet compulsively readable, frightening but endearing Adam Cesare