Books like The Fisherman
12 books with a reading profile close to The Fisherman by John Langan. Escapist; a moderate read.
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1
Everything's Eventual
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
The book collects fourteen of Stephen King's stories, mostly from the 1990s and 2000s.
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2
Insomnia
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Set in Derry, Maine, the story follows Ralph Roberts, an elderly widower suffering from worsening sleeplessness.
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3
Hell Followed With Us
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Benji is a sixteen-year-old transgender boy fleeing the Angels, a fundamentalist cult that triggered a biological apocalypse to cleanse the earth.
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4
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In the isolated town of Milburn, New York, four elderly men known as the Chowder Society gather to share ghost stories, haunted by a collective memory from their youth.
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5
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1846, the Donner Party wilderness trek toward California falters as a series of unexplained disappearances and grisly deaths plague the wagon trail.
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6
Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Chuck Tingle's novel takes place in a Christian conversion therapy camp called Camp Damascus, whose pastor claims to cure queer people.
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7
The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Rick Grimes and his group of survivors attempt to secure a permanent life within the walls of an abandoned prison, but their isolation ends when a helicopter crash leads them to the town of Woodbury.
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8
The Twisted Ones
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
After her hoarder step-grandmother dies, Melissa, known as Mouse, travels to rural North Carolina to clear out a house overflowing with refuse.
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9
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
by Mokumokuren
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Yoshiki and Hikaru are best friends in a small, isolated village in rural Japan.
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10
Sign Here
by Claudia Lux
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Peyote Trip is a cubicle-bound employee in the bureaucratic landscape of Hell, specifically working in the Deals Department.
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11
Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World (Comics)
by Garth Ennis
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Jesse Custer, a Texas preacher possessed by a divine entity, travels across the American South with his assassin girlfriend Tulip O'Hare and the Irish vampire Cassidy.
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12
We Sold Our Souls
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Kris Pulaski was the lead guitarist for Dürt Würk, a heavy metal band on the verge of stardom in the 1990s until their lead singer, Terry Hunt, betrayed the group for a solo contract.
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