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Wednesday 22nd October at 4pm, UK Time (Rights Holders)
Thursday 23rd October at 4pm, UK Time (Public)
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.
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‘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, horror 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 forever.’
Richard Kadrey
About this Edition
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Consisting of only 350 copies in three states, Artists Edition, Deluxe Edition and Lettered Edition. The Fisherman has been designed and illustrated by Elijah John with eight full colour illustrations including two double page fold outs all of which have been tipped-in by hand. The book also contains black and white pen and ink pieces including chapter headers and vignettes which have been printed letterpress.
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Page Count: 285 pp approx
Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm (uniform size of our other titles.)
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The book will be printed letterpress by Pat Randle and Ellen Bills of Nomad Letterpress on their Heidelberg.
The title page will be printed in blue and black.
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The typefaces are set in Minion Pro, with Hermann types for display.
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Artists Edition
Limited to 224 copies
£220
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Signed by John Langan, Paul Tremblay and Elijah John
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Quarter bound in Dubletta grey flecked cloth over illustrated board
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Foiled-stamped titles
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Letterpress-printed on Fedrigoni Arena 120 gsm
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Sewn binding with 8 full colour illustrations including two double page fold-outs tipped-in by hand
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Pen and Ink illustrated chapter headers and vignettes printed letterpress
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Title page printed in two colours.
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Endpapers Hahnemuhle Bugra-Button.
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The book will be housed in a cloth slipcase with foil-stamped designs and titles.
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Also includes a limited edition bookmark
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Optional remarque (limited to 20 copies)
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Limited to 100 copies.
£595
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Signed by John Langan, Paul Tremblay and Elijah John
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Quarter bound by Roger Grech in J Hewit & Sons black chieftan goatskin over a beautiful handmade lokta paper with striking silver snake skin pattern in metallic silver to mimic the skin of the Leviathan.
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Rounded with sculpted leather headcaps and hand foiled titles to the spine with silver stamped hook motif.
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Letterpress-printed on Liber Charta 120 gsm.
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Housed in a handmade slipcase capped with black dubletta cloth and panelled in black Mulberry (Kozo) paper. This crossed threads which make up the structure of the paper perfectly represent the thousands of crossed cords and wires with which Leviathan is bound to 'Der Fischer.'
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Sewn binding with 8 full colour illustrations including two double page fold-outs tipped-in by hand
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Pen and Ink illustrated chapter headers and vignettes printed letterpress
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Title page printed in two colours.
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The Deluxe edition also comes with a limited edition print and bookmark
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Optional remarque
​Lettered Edition
26 copies
£1900
Bound by Master Book-Binder Jack Tylkowski and Printed on newly commissioned, handmade Losin paper from the celebrated Czech paper mill which carries the Nepenthe Watermark.
Jacek chose a three-piece bradel binding as the structure for his design. The front and back boards are covered in dark grey Italian goatskin. He then created an organic texture for the leather to which he has applied turquoise and black metallic and pigment foils to enhance the effect and finally an embossing dye.
This tactile, organic texture mimics not just the skin of Leviathan but also echoes the Black Sea and black mould which are reoccurring motifs throughout the novel. In a final flourish this texture has then been carried on to the endpapers, so the effect is mirrored internally.
Housed in a handmade solander box of grey cloth with goatskin spine, hand foiled titles and stamped hook motif to the top of the box. The box is lined with a luxurious light grey suedel.
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Signed by John Langan, Paul Tremblay and Elijah John
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Three piece Bradel Binding
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Fully bound in dark grey Italian Goatskin
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Sculpted leather head-caps
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The spine is black leather with vertical title stamps hand-foiled in turquoise .
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Handmade textured endpapers
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Letterpress-printed on handmade Losin carrying the Nepenthe Watermark
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Sewn binding with 8 full colour illustrations including two double page fold-outs tipped-in by hand
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Pen and Ink illustrated chapter headers and vignettes printed letterpress
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Title page printed in two colours.
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The Lettered edition also comes with the option of a special Remarque by Elijah John rendered using metallic inks.
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The Portfolio
Limited to 40 copies
£125
Print portfolio measures 210 x 300mm
Bound in grey Dubletta cloth over illustrated boards with foil stamped titles. The enclosure contains all eight colour prints, each is signed by the illustrator.
The portfolios are not numbered sequentially 1-40.
If you have an existing number or letter we will automatically match your letter or number. If you are a new customer who has purchased an edition of The Fisherman we will also match your new number/letter to your portfolio.
This portfolio also comes with a letterpress printed limitation sheet which is signed and numbered to match your book.
THE AUTHOR:JOHN LANGAN
John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows, and five collections of short stories, The Fisherman won the Bram Stoker and This Is Horror Awards for superior achievement in a novel. With Paul Tremblay, Langan co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. He's one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during its first three years. Currently, he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. In 2025, he returned with thirteen new tales of cosmic horror in Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions (Word Horde Press.)
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John Langan lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and many, many animals. He holds a first degree black belt in the Korean martial art of Tang Soo Do.
INTRODUCTION: PAUL TREMBLAY
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, the Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of the New York Times bestselling Horror Movie, The Beast You, Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted as the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. His short fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family. He is represented by Stephen Barbara, InkWell Management.
THE ARTIST:ELIJAH JOHN
Elijah John specialises in Horror and Weird Fiction and has worked with many leading publisher’s in the field as an illustrator before establishing Nepenthe Press in 2023.
His work is influenced by german expressionism and the symbolist movement, particularly the work of Edvard Munch, Alfred Kubin, Albin Grau and Stefan Eggeler and Dave McKean. He has illustrated books by Stephen King, T E D Klein, Grady Hendrix, Karl Edward Wagner, M R James, Mark Samuels and many more.
His work has also been endorsed by Oscar winning director Guillermo Del Toro, the director of Frankenstein and Pan’s Labyrinth.
THE PRINTER: NOMAD LETTERPRESS
​Nomad Letterpress was founded by Pat Randle, the son of John Randle of the Whittington Press. One of the most respected printers working today. Nomad print their own exceptional, private press publications collaborating with leading artists and printmakers and running workshops throughout the year.
They have worked with many of the leading publishers in the field, re-interpreting the art of printing for a modern audience whilst retaining the traditional building blocks upon which the press was founded.
THE BINDERS: JACEK TYLKOWSKI & ROGER GRECH
Bindery Tylkowski is a family business that has been operating since 1980. Jacek is a master bookbinder with over 20 years experience.
He is recognised as one of the leading inovators of modern bookbinding techniques having produced exquisite editions for fine press publishers, most notably his work for Suntup Editions.
Roger has been a bookbinder and printmaker for over 30 years. For the majority of his career he has taught both disciplines at colleges and institutions. Roger now runs his own bindery based in Shipley, West Yorkshire, where he works on limited editions for Fine Press Publishers. His work can be found in public and private collections.