The Fisherman

<h2>'Illusory frightening and deeply moving <em>The Fisherman</em> is a modern horror epic. And it's simply a must read' Paul Tremblay</h2> <p>In upstate New York within the woods Dutchman's 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.</p> <p>When <strong>Abe</strong> and <strong>Dan</strong> two widowers who have found solace in each other's 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>'An epic yet intimate horror novel. Langan channels M. R. James Robert E. Howard and Norman Maclean. What you get is <em>A River Runs Through It</em>... straight to hell' Laird Barron</strong></p> <h3>More praise for <em>The Fisherman</em></h3> <p>'Reading this your mouth fills with worms. Just let them wriggle and crawl as they will though-don't swallow. John Langan is fishing for your sleep for your soul. I fear he's already got mine' <strong>Stephen Graham Jones</strong></p> <p>'What starts as a slow melancholy tale gains momentum and drops you head first into a churning nightmare from which you might escape but you'll never forget and the memory of what you saw will change you forever' <strong>Richard Kadrey</strong></p> <p>'<em>The Fisherman</em> is a treasure the kind of book you just want to snuggle up and shiver through. I can't 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' <strong>Victor LaValle</strong></p> <p>'Stories within stories folk tales becoming modern legends all spinning into a fisherman's tale about the one he wishes had gotten away. Langan's latest is at turns epic and personal dense yet compulsively readable frightening but endearing' <strong>Adam Cesare</strong></p>