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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"Shifting between past and present, Langan builds terrifying scenes . . . the mythology is genuinely creepy."
— Publishers Weekly
John Langan is the author of the novels The Fisherman and House of Windows and two collections of stories. The Fisherman won the Bram Stoker Award and This Is Horror Award for superior achievement in a novel in 2016. He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during its first three years. He he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine.
Danny Campbell is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and an actor who has appeared in CBS’ The Guardian, the films A Pool, a Fool, and a Duel and Greater Than Gravity, and in over twenty-five commercials. He is a company member of the Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles and is an adjunct faculty member at Santa Monica College.