An overtone that the worst is yet to come. After you've bought this ebook, you can choose to download either the PDF version or the ePub, or both. Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. Elizabeth Hand does a great job of slowly building a sense of dread. But whose story is the true one? Now the former members of Windhollow Faire gather together along with their manager, a photographer, an ex-girlfriend, and a reporter to talk about the events for a documentary. Odd things happen in the house, but the horror level is incredibly low. In the summer of 1972, the young members of folk-rock band Windollow Faire are sent by their manager to a remote old English manor house to record their sophomore album. Author: Elizabeth Hand Genre: Horror, mystery. I would like to applaud the people behind the cover of the book. Now, years later, each of the surviving musicians, their friends and lovers-including a psychic, a photographer, and the band's manager-meets with a young documentary filmmaker to tell their own version of what happened during that summer. Definitely one of my favorite stories by this author, and one of the best haunted house stories I’ve read in a long while. Wylding Hall ticked a lot of boxes for me. Sometimes I love Elizabeth Hand (Generation Loss) and sometimes I hate her (Mortal Love), but she certainly has a gift for creating mood and setting, as this story shows well. There they record Wylding Hall, the album that makes their reputation-but at a terrifying cost, when Julian Blake, their new lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen again. Change ). It's The Woman in Black meets Daisy Jones and the Six. Thank you for the rec. It is a sub-genre that lends itself particularly well to horror and sci-fi, if done well. . Wylding Hall. This Shirley Jackson Award–winning novel is “a true surreal phantasmagoria . But each has their own voice and quirks that would make them unique, even on the page itself. Despite most of the horror here being quiet, there is a sense of dread and foreshadowing that pervades throughout. I love this one. Don’t forget, your first book is free when you sign up. Follow her on Instagram @wordsmithlynn or look for Wordsmith Lynn on Facebook. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Their story is one of tragedy and loss, including the mysterious disappearance of Julian, their lead singer and lead creative force. It’s like we’re reading the transcript of a documentary. This was a refreshing find for me. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand – Kindle Edition. ( Log Out /  Wylding Hall would be an excellent place to start. Follow Wordsmith Lynn – News & Reviews on WordPress.com. Many strange things happen at Wylding Hall all leading up to the disappearance of their lead songwriter and singer Julian Blake. We don’t have any very graphic horror moments. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. A folk band sequesters in the English countryside in 1972. Simply because it’s a very light horror story. I have a mental list of my favorite fictional houses and after reading Wylding Hall, I've just added another to it. And the music no one is singing. Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books. It was the first Elizabeth Hand I'd ever read. The lead example being World War Z by Max Brooks and large elements of The Final Reconciliation by Todd Keisling. I had never heard of Elizabeth Hand before but Wylding Hall kept popping up on Bookriot for suggested horror books. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Wylding Hall at Amazon.com. I can’t recommend it enough. It's funny you posted this now, because I just finished a re-read - my book club did a Secret Santa recommendation exchange, and I gave my assignee this book, so I figured I should reread it before the next meeting. WYLDING HALL is a fun novella that doesn't neatly fit into any single category other than, perhaps, dark fiction. The Amazon link to the book is below, but for the full hit, get it on Audible if possible. See details. ( Log Out /  It's just as evocative and spooky as I remember, although nothing will ever supplant, Amazon should get a commission from you, I feel like about every other time you post a book review I end up buying the book. {{ format_drm_information.format_name }} unrestricted, {{ format_drm_information.format_name }} {{format_drm_information.page_percent}}, {{ format_drm_information.format_name }} off, {{ read_aloud_information.format_name }} on, {{ read_aloud_information.format_name }} off. Each character has secrets and opinions all of their own as well as a full and fleshed out set of background circumstances. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand. So hearing the fear and dread the characters had involving Wylding Hall would have amped it up. A woman with a dangerously short attention span, Lynn has been a librarian, a journalist, a publicist, a computer programmer, an actress, and a stagehand. I think I've always had an interest in architecture. It's got a haunting, lush atmosphere, and it's full of interesting details about photography. Each character talks a little bit on a subject and then one leads us to our next subject until we get a story of all the events. An added bonus is the… Browse Recommendations; Choice Awards; Genres; Giveaways; New Releases In the aftermath of the mysterious death of their lead singer, the young members of a now-legendary British acid folk band hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient English country house with its own dark secrets. The lead example being World War Z by Max Brooks and large elements of … Why are more people not talking about this book?!?! The multi-cast reading is pretty fun. That final set of images is just SO viscerally unnerving! No current Talk conversations about this book. The writing is very good, the characters are interesting, and the pace is slow to add intensity but fast enough to keep us constantly interested. And the casual mention of "When they dig up the barrow.". ( Log Out /  Several of the characters were constantly drinking or doing drugs, nothing stronger than weed, so not all the events are remembered clearly. April 3, 2015. It’s definitely convinced me I need to check out more of Elizabeth Hand’s work. ( Log Out /  A group of young musicians in a British acid-folk band are taking a break from the world and spending the summer focusing on their album. So the book relies solely on tense moments described to us by the members of Windhollow Faire and those associated with the events at Wylding Hall. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. It has to be said, oral histories are one of my favourite types of books. In the aftermath of the mysterious death of their lead singer, the young members of a now-legendary British acid folk band hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient English country house with its own dark secrets. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. See what your friends are reading. I checked the book out on Audible and was glad that I did. ( Log Out /  It is a sub-genre that lends itself particularly well to horror and sci-fi, if done well. There they record Wylding Hall, the album that makes their reputation-but at a terrifying. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. ). Oral History – Check. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. Summary: After the tragic and mysterious death of one of their founding members, the young musicians in a British acid-folk band hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with its own dark secrets. Target Audience: Adult but appropriate for young adults as well. When I was in my early teens, I loved reading gothic novels, not for the stories of innocent young heroines falling in love with dark, handsome men, but for the wonderful old houses in which the books were set. Cass Neary, the narrator, is middle-aged, burned out, and barely scraping by, but she was a kind of punk/avant-garde photographer in the New York art scene in the eighties, one with particularly dark inclinations.