Wylding Hall
“[A] luminous evocation of a period and place…The 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 Hand’s best fiction.”
Locus
Winner of the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award
Finalist for the 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
A Tor.com Reviewers' Choice
An Electric Literature Pick of 9 Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories about Music
A Crime Reads Pick of Best Novels for the Eerie Days of Summer
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?
Praise