6/28/2023 0 Comments The fisherman john langan reviewStick with it. Combining delicious elements of "Pet Sematary," "Moby Dick," Lovecraftian mythology and genuinely complex and likeable characters, "The Fisherman" is at once a thoughtful homage to the desperation of sorrow as well as a damned clever and frightening exercise in literary horror.Ĭomment threads are monitored for 48 hours after publication and then closed. But what if an apocryphal stream - Dutchman's Creek - flows into the Beyond and can reunite the Living and the Dead? And at what cost? Langan packages the real-time friendship narrative as bookend sections around a central flashback that explains the origins of the haunted Dutchman's Creek - a necessary component that, despite its artful and creative construction, goes on a bit too long (if only because we want to get back to Abe and Dan). Speaking of which, when Abe and Dan, two upstate New York friends use fishing as a bond over the shared misery of their status of recent widowers, their weekend sojourns at first seem healing - or at least genuine distractions. I would recommend this book for any fans. Langan is a gorgeous stylist whose prose is as seductive as a necromantic rite. 2 reviews have 1 stars Modern Literary Horror Superbly written, and spine tinglingly creepy.
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