Echo

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What to expect

'This is totally, brilliantly original' Stephen King.

A startlingly original horror novel from the author of HEX

It's One Thing to Lose Your Life
It's Another to Lose Your Soul


When climber Nick Grevers is brought down from the mountains after a terrible accident he has lost his looks, his hopes and his climbing companion. His account of what happened on the forbidden peak of the Maudit is garbled, almost hallucinogenic. Soon it becomes apparent more than his shattered body has returned: those that treat his disfigured face begin experiencing extraordinary and disturbing psychic events that suggest that Nick has unleashed some ancient and primal menace on his ill-fated expedition.

Nick's partner Sam Avery has a terrible choice to make. He fell in love with Nick's youth, vitality and beauty. Now these are gone and all that is left is a haunted mummy-worse, a glimpse beneath the bandages can literally send a person insane.

Sam must decide: either to flee to America, or to take Nick on a journey back to the mountains, the very source of the curse, the little Alpine Village of Grimnetz, its soul-possesed Birds of Death and it legends of human sacrifice and, ultimately, its haunted mountain, the Maudit.

Dutch writer Thomas Olde Heuvelt is a Hugo Award Winner and has been hailed as the future of speculative fiction in Europe. His work combines a unique blend of popular culture and fairy-tale myth that is utterly unique. Echo follows his sensational debut English language novel, HEX.

(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Critics Review

  • ECHO is a compulsive page turner mixing supernatural survival horror and pulp adventure. You’ll be happily rooted to your reading chair, safe (maybe) from the shadow of the Maudit

    Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers' Club
  • Echo is a haunting contribution to the literature of folk horror, and its scenes in the monstrous mountains convey a sense of uncanny dread that rises through terror towards awe. Few writers in our field have scaled such heights

    Ramsey Campbell
  • Hallucinatory, eerie and terrifying, Echo is an engine of menace, an icicle in your heart. I’ve rarely been so frightened and yet so transported by a book. It left me breathless

    Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street
  • Can a place – say a mountain or a glen – be evil? Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s long-awaited second novel ECHO delivers an emphatic ‘Yes!’ on a breath of icy air. His deft prose will have you absolutely frigid, sitting up straight and hearing every squeak in the house . . . and savoring every delicious frozen shiver

    John F.D. Taff, Multiple Bram Stoker-Nominated author of The Fearing and editor of Dark Stars
  • Thomas Olde Heuvelt is a literary showman, proudly naming and displaying his influences before blending them into something unique and new. ECHO is a heartbreaking, intimate, and genuinely frightening epic

    Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters
  • Thomas Olde Huevelt has outdone himself with ECHO. The climbing sequences are Jon Krakauer-esque, and the narrative evokes the terror of a vintage Dan Simmons or Peter Straub novel. Thrilling, horrifying, supremely confident storytelling

    Nick Cutter

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