Wylding Hall
- Author Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator Jennifer Woodward, John Telfer, Dan Morgan, Emma Fenney, Simon Victor, Kris Dyer, Charlotte Strevens, David Thorpe, various narrators, various
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 7 April 2015
- Run Time 4 hours and 38 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Interior life.
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What to expect
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. 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.
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. But whose story is the true one? And what really happened to Julian Blake?
Critics Review
u201c[A] luminous evocation of a period and placeu2026The novella gains a strange power apart from its rather restrained supernatural manifestations, a power driven by the sense of lost dreams that has always driven Handu2019s best fiction.u201d
u201cHand writes with elegance, power, and passion about the spell that music can cast and the sorcery that is its creation.u201d
u201cHand builds disquiet and disjuncture quietly; this is not a novel of thrills and puzzles but a lengthy spell itselfu2026Hand is an expert at building mood and atmosphere in ways that you donu2019t realize until you feel it around you.u201d
u201cIcy sensations, secret passageways, and taciturn locals provide Gothic trappings.u201d
u201cBy turns comic, elegiac, sexy, romantic, melancholy, and downright chilling, Wylding Hall sweeps us along from swinging London to the terrifying gates of Faerie and into the presentu2014where all spells must be paid for.u201d
u201c[A] shimmering new supernatural novelu2026By turns melancholic and joyous, dark and incandescent, this always-surprising tale is full of heart, music, and wonder.u201d
u201cA true surreal phantasmagoria, with music and all the accoutrements of the world of rock-and-roll set off by a wonderful admixture of the gothic supernatural.u201d
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