The Fisherman

The narrative voice in Langan's The Fisherman is so quiet and intimate that you feel like perhaps you're the only person in the world to have been told this weird, Lovecraftian tale. It's a story within a story within a story, about the wrenching grief and aching emptiness that follows the death of a loved one. It's also about fishing, sacrifices, resurrection, and the monsters that lurk in the deep if you just soften your gaze a little. It is dark and seeping and hair-standing-on-end terrifying, and I loved it.