Coming soon from Nepenthe Press

 

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, 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 other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. 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 Der Fisher: 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.

 

‘Illusory, frightening and deeply moving, The Fisherman is a modern horror epic. And it’s simply a must read’

Paul Tremblay

 

‘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 soul. I fear he’s already got mine.’

Stephen Graham Jones 

 

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

Laird Barron

 

‘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 forver.’

Richard Kadrey