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The Fisherman
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
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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- Amazon Customer
- 11-10-23
exceptional cosmic horror
atmospheric, frightening, and engrossing. This Stoker prize-winning novel is well worth a listen. the pacing of the story is a little off, telling a split narrative over many years. it would have benefited from interspersing each narrative with the other but this minor quibble only slightly detracts from the perfect Halloween listen.
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- Alex L
- 19-04-24
Masterpiece of cosmic horror
A masterpiece of story telling that fuses grief, cosmic horror and awe in a wonderfully captivating way.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-11-23
Best modern Lovecraftian tale I've read/listened.
Best modern Lovecraftian tale I've read/listened to, and really well read.
Gonna be seeking a book copy, and listening to it again in the meantime.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-06-24
A fantastically creepy story that stumbles in the middle with its pacing
There's a nice amount of set-up, and you really get engrossed in the characters. Then right as you expect the horror of the story to pick up it switches gears to a story-within-a-story, and you're back to more chapters of set-up. then when you return to the main narrative again you're hurtling towards the conclusion.
Either story on its own is fantastic, but combined as they are the main narrative is robbed of its pacing as you scramble to remember details you listened to hours before, and the story narrative is robbed of your interest as you struggle through its first third.
If you get over that though this is an excellent story, and I'm going to be thinking of that last chapter for quite a while.
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- Rolo Tomasi
- 21-02-24
“People’s memories are short for any sorrow that isn’t theirs,”
The Fisherman by John Langan is a surprisingly tender study in grief and resilience. Part folk-horror, part Lovecraft, it’s a haunting tale filled with dread, and strong character work which heightens the scares. Not what I expected, and all the better for it. A modern classic.
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- Mark Wedel Andersen
- 04-01-24
Geat lovecraftian story
If you like lovecraftian stories this is a book for you! It has all the elements and I loved it.
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- Mrs T P Adams
- 22-05-24
Too Long/Too Slow
I’ve read hundreds of differing types of books over the years - some which were a tough read - but I gave up on this one before the end. The first time I’ve ever been beaten by a book.
The narrative is just too long and drawn out, the pacing is awful, Lengthy visualisation can work, James Herbert’s writing transports the reader to a place where one feels they can see the events occurring in front of their eyes, but not with this story. I ended up having no interest in the conclusion or the fate of the protagonists.
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- enkerro
- 30-04-24
meandering and.bad pacing
Cheap comparison when compared to lovecraft. meandering, bad pacing, no real plot reveal. very dissapointed
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