The Fisherman by John Langan

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Published: October 9, 2023 by Canelo

Horror/borrowed

Abe starts fishing when he becomes a widower, then later on he meets Dan, who also lost his wife, and they start fishing together. Soon their fishing will take them to Dutchman´s creek.

I liked the beginning. Abe was really struggling with his grief and fishing saved him. He notices Dan is struggling too and fishing becomes the calm in a storm.

But then it got really boring. They meet this guy at a restaurant and he tells the story of The Dutchman´s creek, and how dangerous it is. And I was like ok some chapters and it is over but it was 200 pages! Luckily after some time it got better. It told the story of a stonemason and his family and then things become darker and darker. And then I was hooked again. It got crazy.

After that we are back at Abe, and he really should not have gone to that creek with Dan. It gets dark again, and that end, damn. I liked that

Yes I did like this horror story, it is more Lovecraftian in its horror.

In upstate New York, within the woods, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked and 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 rumours of the Creek and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss them. 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 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.