The Fisherman

Summary

Two grieving widowers, Abe and Dan, take up fishing to cope with their losses and are drawn to a remote creek in the Catskills called Dutchman's Creek, a place wrapped in an old and terrible legend. A diner owner's long account of a nineteenth century tragedy reveals a cosmic horror tied to the water, a being capable of returning the dead at a monstrous price. Langan blends a meditation on grief with Lovecraftian dread, building a story that treats loss itself as the doorway to the unspeakable.