Wylding Hall
Wylding Hall book cover

Wylding Hall

Audio CD – Audiobook, April 7, 2015

Price
$24.95
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1482957228
Weight
4.8 ounces

Description

''Real enchantment is always sought by our sad, starved world and rarely found. Elizabeth Hand's work possesses it in every word.'' --Francesca Lia Block, award-winning author, praise for the author

Features & Highlights

  • [Read by Jennifer Woodward, John Telfer, Dan Morgan, Emma Fenney, Simon Victor, Kris Dyer, Charlotte Strevens, David Thorpe] 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, 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?

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A horror novel set amidst the "acid folk" era of British rock -- 1968-72.

Ms. Hand fictionalizes the making of a classic "folk rock" album by Fairport Convention. Following a tragic accident, the real group retired to a country house to come up with that album. In this account the house is a 500-year-old manor house and it's haunted. Magic is afloat, as it was at that time in England, when Alex and Maxine Saunders were the King and Queen of Witches and Jimmy Page bought Aleister Crowley's house from Mick Jagger. Stairway to Heaven, Ride a White Swan, Child of the Moon -- if those songs speak to you, listen to this audio book as the voice actors speak their parts. The book won a Shirley Jackson (Haunting of Hill House) Award for weird fantasy. I love it.
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