· The Fisherman is a horror novel that won the Bram Stoker Award that was published in and was written by John Langan. A moving, powerful work of epic horror that is relevant, seeing how it focuses on grief and the resulting suffering, The Fisherman is simply a great book to read. John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows, and three collections of stories, Sefira and Other Betrayals, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters. The Fisherman won the Bram Stoker and This Is Horror Awards for superior achievement in a novel/5(K). Hey all! I just finished The Fisherman by John Langan after having it recommended to me here, and I loved it! I thought it was a great take on a Lovecraft-style story, and, unlike many other cosmic horror pieces I've read, it didn't feel horribly derivative of Lovecraft.
The Fisherman by John Langan Word Horde (June ) pages; $ paperback; $ e-book Reviewed by David Simms. Imagine, if you will, a dark tale co-written by Peter Straub and Thomas Ligotti, filtered through the whimsical sensibilities of Neil Gaiman and spoken to a friend over beers at a campfire. The Fisherman by John Langan. Abe and Dan are coworkers and widowers trying to pass their empty days with fishing. Abe has been on his own a little longer, and is coping better and coming a bit more to terms with his grief. Dan is a few years younger and cannot come to grips with the tragic and abrupt lose of his wife and two little boys. John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage of weird fiction, Langan has already.
In his superb new novel The Fisherman, John Langan manages to sustain the focused effect of a short story or a poem over the course of a long horror narrative Langan writes elegant prose, and the novel's rolling, unpredictable flow has a distinctive rhythm, the rise and fall of its characters' real grief. These fishermen are restless men, immobilized but never truly at peace. The Fisherman is a mythical horror novel by John Langan, which pays homage, in part, to Moby Dick and the Bible. The main character, Abraham or Abe, as he prefers to be called, loses his wife early in the novel, struggling to remain balanced after the emotional toll that watching his wife die took on his well-being. The Fisherman is a somber meditation on the consequences of loss and the toll it takes on the human spirit. This book is written in the style of a memoir, in which the narrator, Abe, recounts certain life experiences that he is trying to come to terms with.
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