But the creek is a stream that runs straight through the heart of hell and the terrors that await the duo are horrific beyond description.

In their never ending search for new places to fish, they discover Dutchman’s Creek and set out for a long day of fishing. It’s the story of two widowers, Abe and Dan, who are drawn together by their grief and a shared love of fishing, a hobby both of them picked up to fill the voids left in their lives by their deceased spouses. The words excellent, outstanding, and transcendent have been used by reviewers so often as to become cliché, but they also seem to be uniquely designed to describe John Langan’s second novel, The Fisherman. His latest novel, The Fisherman, does nothing to disavow us of that opinion. And the reason for such a prolific body of published work is quite simple: the man is one hell of a good writer. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters and the critically acclaimed The Wide Carnivorous Sky. Hailed by critics as a writer with outstanding talent, he’s been published in multiple anthologies, including several “years best” anthologies, Ellen Datlow’s Fearful Symmetries, and two single author collections– Mr. To the horror community at large, John Langan is no stranger. “The Fisherman is a cosmic tour de force unlike anything that’s been penned before.”

The Fisherman by John Langan