If the way Robert Luczak’s hunt for M. Das curdled into a bleak, corpse-lit tour of Calcutta stuck with you, you’ll vibe with the black undertow in The Fisherman. Two widowers chase a rumor-haunted fishing spot and wade into a legend as corrosive as the Kali cult’s rites—complete with river-side lore, whispered histories, and a final act that stares into the same abyss your narrator did when the city turned feral around his family.

You watched Luczak follow a lead on a "lost" poet and get pulled into rituals and testimonies in back rooms; Ring offers that same investigative slide. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa traces a string of deaths to a cursed videotape, combing through medical reports and survivor timelines the way Luczak sifted through manuscripts and clandestine meetings—only to discover the horror wants something from him, too.

If the cross-currents between Luczak, Amrita, and the Calcutta contacts—each with their own agenda and cultural frames—kept you uneasy, Forster’s Chandrapore will, too. An English guest misinterprets gestures and rituals much as Luczak stumbles through the city’s invitations and warnings, and a single event—like that nighttime journey the poet’s handlers arranged—sets off accusations, moral panic, and revelations about power and belonging.

When Luczak’s family is targeted and the city closes in, the book turns into a raw study of fear, rage, and guilt. Pet Sematary drills into that same nerve: Louis Creed faces a loss that warps his reason as badly as those Calcutta nights warped Luczak’s. Both men rationalize terrible choices, both brush against something older and crueler than they imagined, and both pay in soul-scarring aftermath.

If the Kali rites, the cremation ghats, and the sense that myth still has teeth in the present hooked you, The Devourers will sink them deeper. In Kolkata, a historian is drawn into confessions that splice Mughal-era shapeshifters with present-day streets—echoing how Luczak’s literary errand became a confrontation with living mythology and predatory desire hidden in plain sight.