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Review: Langan is a titan. That much is certain. This novel is his champion. - If you’ve ever read a novel whose imagery stuck with you, seared hot into your brain, draining your sleep away, its vividness painted across your mind’s eye in a way that seems like a film streaming silently across the blacks of your eyelids every time you close them, then you have read a novel like John Langan’s The Fisherman. There are scenes in this novel, that are not only horrific in nature, but also linger in your thoughts wherever you go, like a wad of gum stuck to the sole of your shoe. Langan’s unorthodox narrative structure, his attention to detail, the weird surrealism of the events which take place, and the mysteries that the Dutchman’s Creek hold, are some of the most effective components of storytelling that we have read all year. The Fisherman is a machine, each component equally important, working together to grind the axles, gears, and cogs to breathe life into a mechanism of haunting language and execution. Deep within the heart of Langan’s novel, is the nature of grief and its effects on those who are the most emotionally vulnerable. What people are capable of when their reality is questioned, their fantasies realized. How grief can seep into one’s conscience, how it can transform someone, and perhaps most importantly (as we see with our protagonist Abe), how grief can be so powerful, we have to find a way to cope. A hobby, a sport, a distraction. Whatever is needed to keep sanity intact. Langan’s choice of words and his artistic rhythm keep our relationships with the main characters intimate, while also illustrating scenes of terror with a sharp and hallucinatory tongue. The Fisherman combines Weird Fiction and Literary Horror, brewing a cocktail of unsettling imagery and a premise that invokes curiosity and intrigue. Imagine the horrors of Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth” bred with the mysterious surrealism of Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and you have The Fisherman, an epic piece that treads the border between literary fiction and downright hair-raising horror. The novel reads like that of a classic, while maintaining the atmosphere of weird fiction that is, by all means, unforgettable. Langan pays homage to classics of literature, whether it be Herman Melville’s Moby Dick or the cosmic horrors of Lovecraft and the weird tales of authors like Machen and Algernon Blackwood. Where many authors fail to individualize their inspirations from their own writing, Langan succeeds triumphantly in setting his own work apart. It wouldn’t be right to compare The Fisherman to any other work. Its amalgamation of themes and motifs stretch far beyond the genre in which it is beheld, transcendent in its own storytelling while maintaining a course for originality all the way through. The history and depth in which Langan describes the tale that unfolds, spanning over many decades, is of an intricate and astute precision that modern authors should take notice to. A page turner if there ever was one, the reader is hooked from the opening chapter and it becomes rather impossible to put the book down. Each chapter ends alluding to a larger horror awaiting on the horizon, each section ending with newfound mystery that chains the rest of the novel together. In a climax that is both cinematic and hauntingly poetic, Langan ends The Fisherman with a paragraph that has become etched into the recesses of our minds, clinging to our thoughts, replaying again and again, each time sending new chills down our spines. Langan is a titan. That much is certain. This novel is his champion. The stakes and expectations for House of Windows are at an all-time high, and with the beauty that is The Fisherman, we know that it won’t disappoint. The Fisherman is one of the greatest horror novels to come out in the past decade, and it will continue to hold its precedence and importance for many years to come.
Review: Bizarre Narrative Choice Does Not Hamper An Excellent Story - Minor Spoilers Ahead Cosmic Horror is hit or miss for me. I adore Lovecraft, but I acknowledge that much of his writing suffers from a generic narrator (Male academic) and a vagueness of description ("A creature too terrible to describe"), deficiencies (In my opinion) that are still being emulated today. Of course, Cosmic Horror can be great despite the narrator, and when used well the vagueness of description can be effective and unsettling. Too often, however, I find that a lot of the Cosmic Horror I read falls into these trappings. Not so with The Fisherman. The main character (Abe) is well fleshed-out and relatable. I appreciated the frankness and honesty of the character as he walks us through the difficult period following the death of his young wife very shortly after their marriage. He is very honest with the reader about how the death affected him and how he behaved in the throes of grief. Mr. Langan does a wonderful job of creating a character the reader cares about. However, Abe's story merely bookends the real meat of the book. Abe begins to bond with a coworker, a recent widower (although under very different circumstances) through fishing. One rainy day they are in a near-deserted diner on their way to a new fishing hole when the chef/ owner decides to let them in on the dark history of their destination, Dutchman's Creek. From this point, the bulk of the book is told by the the diner's proprietor. It's a story he heard from a minister who heard it from an elderly woman in a nursing home who lived part of it decades ago and was told the rest by her husband. The story was compelling and I certainly enjoyed it, but it was jarring to drop Abe so abruptly and just as jarring to pick him back up a few hundred pages later. Furthermore, although Abe makes mention that the new narrator had mentioned having literary aspirations at some point in his life, it is a little hard to believe that he is able to narrate a 200+ page 3rd and 4th hand story from memory and with the flow and literary flourishes he does (Although I seem to remember Abe alluding to the fact that he hadn't told them everything in the story, they had just somehow intuited it). Despite this clunky narrative, the story itself is rich and interesting. The tale follows a German immigrant family in the pre-WW1 years who move to a town in Upstate New York to assist in the building of a reservoir. Things are going well until a woman the whole town saw trampled to death shows up, broken and damp but "alive", in her home. From here we are given fascinating and deep backstory on the cosmic forces at play, each chapter adding to the foreboding of what awaits the town and possibly the world. One of my favorite aspects in Cosmic Horror is when the author alludes to the historical anecdotes, myths and origins behind the great horror at the center of the book, such as when Lovecraft talks about the Mad Arab or the ancient pagan tribes that worship his dark gods. Mr. Langan does not disappoint in this respect, and I enjoyed the mentions, brief as they were, of the Ottoman and biblical angles on the story. Furthermore, I greatly enjoyed the voyage taken by the German protagonist and a colleague to a bizarre and otherworldly city. As I've said before, I find many in this genre to be frustratingly vague, but this brief portion of the book was done brilliantly and the possibilities it suggested really helped add to the story. This was a great book and Mr. Langan is clearly a gifted author. If not for the clunky narration, I would give this book 5 stars. Mr. Langan doesn't spell everything out, but is never unnecessarily vague or glib as I've found many in the genre to be. I really enjoyed the ending as well. Perfectly chilling. On a more practical note, I was impressed by the physical book itself. The front and back cover art are beautiful. The paper is thick and the ink is striking. I never comment or even notice these things but this is one well made book.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #13,023 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #7 in Sea Stories #246 in Horror Literature & Fiction |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (7,138) |
| Dimensions  | 6 x 0.64 x 9 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 1939905214 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1939905215 |
| Item Weight  | 14.7 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 282 pages |
| Publication date  | June 30, 2016 |
| Publisher  | Word Horde |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Langan is a titan. That much is certain. This novel is his champion.
*by T***T on December 21, 2017*

If you’ve ever read a novel whose imagery stuck with you, seared hot into your brain, draining your sleep away, its vividness painted across your mind’s eye in a way that seems like a film streaming silently across the blacks of your eyelids every time you close them, then you have read a novel like John Langan’s The Fisherman. There are scenes in this novel, that are not only horrific in nature, but also linger in your thoughts wherever you go, like a wad of gum stuck to the sole of your shoe. Langan’s unorthodox narrative structure, his attention to detail, the weird surrealism of the events which take place, and the mysteries that the Dutchman’s Creek hold, are some of the most effective components of storytelling that we have read all year. The Fisherman is a machine, each component equally important, working together to grind the axles, gears, and cogs to breathe life into a mechanism of haunting language and execution. Deep within the heart of Langan’s novel, is the nature of grief and its effects on those who are the most emotionally vulnerable. What people are capable of when their reality is questioned, their fantasies realized. How grief can seep into one’s conscience, how it can transform someone, and perhaps most importantly (as we see with our protagonist Abe), how grief can be so powerful, we have to find a way to cope. A hobby, a sport, a distraction. Whatever is needed to keep sanity intact. Langan’s choice of words and his artistic rhythm keep our relationships with the main characters intimate, while also illustrating scenes of terror with a sharp and hallucinatory tongue. The Fisherman combines Weird Fiction and Literary Horror, brewing a cocktail of unsettling imagery and a premise that invokes curiosity and intrigue. Imagine the horrors of Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth” bred with the mysterious surrealism of Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and you have The Fisherman, an epic piece that treads the border between literary fiction and downright hair-raising horror. The novel reads like that of a classic, while maintaining the atmosphere of weird fiction that is, by all means, unforgettable. Langan pays homage to classics of literature, whether it be Herman Melville’s Moby Dick or the cosmic horrors of Lovecraft and the weird tales of authors like Machen and Algernon Blackwood. Where many authors fail to individualize their inspirations from their own writing, Langan succeeds triumphantly in setting his own work apart. It wouldn’t be right to compare The Fisherman to any other work. Its amalgamation of themes and motifs stretch far beyond the genre in which it is beheld, transcendent in its own storytelling while maintaining a course for originality all the way through. The history and depth in which Langan describes the tale that unfolds, spanning over many decades, is of an intricate and astute precision that modern authors should take notice to. A page turner if there ever was one, the reader is hooked from the opening chapter and it becomes rather impossible to put the book down. Each chapter ends alluding to a larger horror awaiting on the horizon, each section ending with newfound mystery that chains the rest of the novel together. In a climax that is both cinematic and hauntingly poetic, Langan ends The Fisherman with a paragraph that has become etched into the recesses of our minds, clinging to our thoughts, replaying again and again, each time sending new chills down our spines. Langan is a titan. That much is certain. This novel is his champion. The stakes and expectations for House of Windows are at an all-time high, and with the beauty that is The Fisherman, we know that it won’t disappoint. The Fisherman is one of the greatest horror novels to come out in the past decade, and it will continue to hold its precedence and importance for many years to come.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bizarre Narrative Choice Does Not Hamper An Excellent Story
*by B***A on August 10, 2016*

Minor Spoilers Ahead Cosmic Horror is hit or miss for me. I adore Lovecraft, but I acknowledge that much of his writing suffers from a generic narrator (Male academic) and a vagueness of description ("A creature too terrible to describe"), deficiencies (In my opinion) that are still being emulated today. Of course, Cosmic Horror can be great despite the narrator, and when used well the vagueness of description can be effective and unsettling. Too often, however, I find that a lot of the Cosmic Horror I read falls into these trappings. Not so with The Fisherman. The main character (Abe) is well fleshed-out and relatable. I appreciated the frankness and honesty of the character as he walks us through the difficult period following the death of his young wife very shortly after their marriage. He is very honest with the reader about how the death affected him and how he behaved in the throes of grief. Mr. Langan does a wonderful job of creating a character the reader cares about. However, Abe's story merely bookends the real meat of the book. Abe begins to bond with a coworker, a recent widower (although under very different circumstances) through fishing. One rainy day they are in a near-deserted diner on their way to a new fishing hole when the chef/ owner decides to let them in on the dark history of their destination, Dutchman's Creek. From this point, the bulk of the book is told by the the diner's proprietor. It's a story he heard from a minister who heard it from an elderly woman in a nursing home who lived part of it decades ago and was told the rest by her husband. The story was compelling and I certainly enjoyed it, but it was jarring to drop Abe so abruptly and just as jarring to pick him back up a few hundred pages later. Furthermore, although Abe makes mention that the new narrator had mentioned having literary aspirations at some point in his life, it is a little hard to believe that he is able to narrate a 200+ page 3rd and 4th hand story from memory and with the flow and literary flourishes he does (Although I seem to remember Abe alluding to the fact that he hadn't told them everything in the story, they had just somehow intuited it). Despite this clunky narrative, the story itself is rich and interesting. The tale follows a German immigrant family in the pre-WW1 years who move to a town in Upstate New York to assist in the building of a reservoir. Things are going well until a woman the whole town saw trampled to death shows up, broken and damp but "alive", in her home. From here we are given fascinating and deep backstory on the cosmic forces at play, each chapter adding to the foreboding of what awaits the town and possibly the world. One of my favorite aspects in Cosmic Horror is when the author alludes to the historical anecdotes, myths and origins behind the great horror at the center of the book, such as when Lovecraft talks about the Mad Arab or the ancient pagan tribes that worship his dark gods. Mr. Langan does not disappoint in this respect, and I enjoyed the mentions, brief as they were, of the Ottoman and biblical angles on the story. Furthermore, I greatly enjoyed the voyage taken by the German protagonist and a colleague to a bizarre and otherworldly city. As I've said before, I find many in this genre to be frustratingly vague, but this brief portion of the book was done brilliantly and the possibilities it suggested really helped add to the story. This was a great book and Mr. Langan is clearly a gifted author. If not for the clunky narration, I would give this book 5 stars. Mr. Langan doesn't spell everything out, but is never unnecessarily vague or glib as I've found many in the genre to be. I really enjoyed the ending as well. Perfectly chilling. On a more practical note, I was impressed by the physical book itself. The front and back cover art are beautiful. The paper is thick and the ink is striking. I never comment or even notice these things but this is one well made book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by H***S on April 13, 2017*

Jesus Christ... this book! I never realised I was in love with it until I finished it and couldn't stop thinking about it, dreaming about it. So I read it again. It is dark and beautiful and horrific and wonderful. I think I know a book's good when I struggle to find words for it, and I really struggle for words when it comes to The Fisherman. It's one of my favourite books I've read in a while, it's one of my favourite Weird Fic books I've read in a while, and it was just a wonderful and capivating read. Okay, I'm gushing. This is a book which has a lot to say and a lot of moods. It's horror, and it's horrific. It's weird fiction, and it's very damn weird. It's Lovecraftian, and boy does it love Lovecraft. It's dark fantasy, and it really is dark and it really is fantastical. And there are veins of human stories and human compassion, veins of straight-foreward adventure and pure fantasy, historical elements and personal elements... it's a mish-mash river of things which flow through the reader in a torrent. I felt this was a story Langan had been ruminating on for a long time, and urgently wanted, or had, to tell. I liked but never loved Langan's short stories, they were interesting but never spoke to me, and I ordered this book on a whim after seeing good reviews. I didn't expect to like it. The amount of dark enjoyment and sheer joy got from this floored me. I think in his short stories, Langan tries to be too clever, too weird and too subversive, because if he can write like he wrote in this book, he can *write*. This book really dragged me into it's world, and I loved it. So, I've gushed - a few things I didn't like. Firstly - Well, I'd have liked to know more about Rainer. I love Rainer, I'm invested in Rainer, I want the continued occult adventures of Rainer. He put all the other characters in the shade, more or less. Secondly, I hate to sound like a prude, but I work in a school library, and when I was 90% through the book I was thinking 'This would be a fantastic introduction to Weird Lit for young adults/older teens. I'd like to put this on our shelves, I have so many ideas about an initiative to get kids reading horror/sci-fi/weird-lit' and then...bam...detailed sex scene. Maybe we can still put it on our shelves, but...hmm... don't get me wrong, I'm in no way anti-sex scenes, it's just that it changed the book from being the perfect intro to sinister and scary Weird Lit for teens and young adults to something that I'd feel cautious about recommending to younger folks. Not a true complaint, just that I wish I could recommend it to my young library patrons. Third, I desperately want more. I know this is best as a stand-alone book. But I want so much more. Total score: 5/5 stars, or maybe 4.99/5 stars. Stunningly wonderful, but with tiny little complaints that are mostly just my personal comments. A lot of fun, and a hell of ride for a cosmic horror book.

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