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Echo

From the Author of HEX

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Echo

By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Narrated by: David Wayman, Greg Lockett, Lauryn Allman
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'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©2022 Thomas Olde Heuvelt Horror Supernatural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal
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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
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
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
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
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
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
I just scaled Mt. Olde Heuvelt and let me tell you, the view up here is absolutely terrifying. Reading ECHO caused me vertigo. The sense of dread inspired by this breathtaking novel - the dread of something monstrous wearing the face of someone we love - reaches so deep, I can still feel the lingering chill in my bones well after putting the book down
Evoking the sensibilities of Clive Barker's Sacrament while tinged with a Palahniuk-esque transgressive streak, this is, unquestionably, Thomas Olde Heuvelt's masterwork. Like a climber at the summit of a great mountain, this tale will chill you to the bone and leave you breathless
Nothing about this book feels derivative... it's too uniquely terrifying. Partly that's down to the deft remixing of conventional horror motifs like undead birds and pitchforkwaving villagers, but mostly, it's the climbing sequences, so vividly rendered that you can almost feel the windchill... It's rare to find a horror novel that's genuinely hair-raising, but every chapter here introduces some new nightmarish detail that'll push you to switch on every light in your home. Fans of Paul Tremblay and John Ajvide Lindqvist, seek this out
Chilling, stealthy, horrendous, ECHO grips like an ice-pick and chills like a glacier
An ambitious, capacious work... containing everything from psychological suspense to cosmic horror. With moments of wonder as well as terror, it looks likely to be one of the highlights of this year's horror scene
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I had to listen to it all as I’d squandered one of my last credits on it!
Unimpressed by the ending
The last chapter was really far away from the somewhere story, but here n there the mental imagery w scintillating, Nick his voice yes I could listen to his delivery his passion, the other Sam I’d leave him soon as he started I couldn’t settle with his voice dialogue story.
Demonic ice mountain, the murder the falling sonic great stuff
Lots of other stuff didn’t need to be there
On The whole I liked it, heard about it on talking scared soo it was a follow up
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I listened to it all I need the medal, pockets were fantastic

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Horror/thriller/romance

Hard to put down audiobook. Great story constantly making me want to find out where the mystery goes.

Scary and beautiful

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This was such a great horror book with the amazing performance on all acounts. The story was genuinely creepy, with memorable scares and imagery that really freaked me out.

Absolutely chilling

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So overall i enjiyed fhis story, clearly influenced by Chuck Palahniuk early works (invisable monsters especially) in style not content.
The story hss soom crepy momentum but loses it way in the middle and adds what fills like a fair but of filler.
The Sam and Nick characters are grear but some of the side characters are underdeveloped and pretty much interchangeable.
Theres is a surprising amount of humour in the story which helps when the horror is really diet coke levels and not full fat.

The performance is greart, especially the Sam performance.

Big mountain chills..

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In summary, I really liked this book and would recommend it. Performances are awesome. As is usual with most novels these days, it could probably have been shorter, there does seem to be repetition which slows the novel down, and is the reason I gave it 4 stars overall, but I really could not 'put it down' and certainly found myself as enchanted by the Modi as the characters in the book.

Brilliantly performed

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