The Fisherman

The Fisherman by John Langan is an excellent cosmic horror novel exploring themes of grief and change through the dark mysterious unknown. Told in sections set in the early 2000s and sections centuries earlier, The Fisherman is a great story blending the fantastic with the mundane, perhaps commenting that the horrors of seeming ordinary life are no less horrible than sea monsters, wizards, or strange cities beside stranger seas. My biggest critique of the book is that the alternation between past and the book's present is, in my opinion, an overused structure in the genre, and the way Langan employed it (through preferable to this reader over other examples) made the middle section feel a bit long. I think Part 3 felt a bit detached from Part 1 because of the length of Part 2, but nevertheless I found The Fisherman to be a compelling novel. This is an excellent read for fans of Lovecraft, Chambers, etc. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️