It’s a kind of time machine, really, the way you can trace a song from whoever’s singing it now back through the years—Dylan or Johnny Cash, Joanna Newsom or Vashti Bunyan—on through all those nameless folk who kept it alive a thousand years ago.

i listened to this amazing book.

i think that's what "the girl" was. Just enough explanation for it to make sense but not so much you feel you know exactly what happened. I've never returned a book I've finished before but I deserve my credit back for having to put up with it.

That sounds awesome!I've mentioned before that haunted house stories are probably my favorite sub-genre of horror. 1504007182 It's as if the author riffled my record collection, dove into my ghost story shelf and wrote this just for me. The songs they record that summer make an album that nobody will ever forget....but dark things happen as well.

And it's about a band in the 70's, also like Daisy Jones. i loved that so much! You’d have to be so careful, more careful than we can even imagine, to keep that one spark alive. She and her two children divide their time between the coast of Maine and North London.“I should have been more frightened; that came later.”“Arianna simply wasn’t up to it. turns out most of the folk songs mentioned in this book are real. She is a longtime contributor to numerous publications, including the Washington Post Book World and the Village Voice Literary Supplement.

And the relationships between them revealed in the way they talk about the other characters. WYLDING HALL by Elizabeth Hand Open Road (2015) I intend to read this purchased publication in due course. i listened to this amazing book.

This book uses an oral history style, similar to recent hit DAISY JONES AND THE SIX. She had a pretty voice, she could carry a tune—that was never a problem.

WYLDING HALL by Elizabeth Hand Open Road (2015) I intend to read this purchased publication in due course.

May 2015 Sessily Watt Facing the Raven's Eye What Can't Be Known in Wylding Hall.

I thought it evoked the early 70's folk rock era very well (I couldn't help but play my copy of Jethro Tull's 'Songs from the Wood' several times while I was reading it) and the story itself, with the interweaving of a magical summer retreat melded with a slowly encroaching supernatural element, was well done overall, but I think I was just expecting a bit more given the relatively gushing praise here onI wanted to like this book more than I did, though that's not to say that I didn't enjoy it. but i think Julian really summoned something in Wylding Hall, maybe a fey person. This was really good. If you have ever followed a folk group or rock band in the early 70s, a band that went through some strange days in those strange but exciting times, you will very likely enjoy this book. The book is short, and a pretty fast read, and on the light side for horror. And the relationships between them revealed in the way theWylding Hall is a pretty short novel with an interesting structure. It's the 1970s, and the band members are all young musicians. [and that is the scene where they describe the three pictures in which they can see the girl... which happens at the very end.

If I conduct a real-time review of it, my comments will appear in the thought stream below or by clicking on this post’s title above.

i think she took him to the fearie lands and as we all know, time is crazy there. This book uses an oral history style, similar to recent hit DAISY JONES AND THE SIX. It's as if the author riffled my record collection, dove into my ghost story shelf and wrote this just for me.

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.

Wylding Hall, the new short novel from Elizabeth Hand, culminates in two sightings.The very last, the moment that ends the novel, is a glimpse of two people through a crowd. i really enjoyed the interview style of this book and think it fit in how this story should be told.I wanted to like this book more than I did, though that's not to say that I didn't enjoy it. Welcome back. Because, really, if you want to read a writer who knows how to do awesome—from the creepy that hides on the edges of the page to the numinous that bursts across it—you should be reading Elizabeth Hand.Instead of just pointing you in her general direction, though, I’m going to talk specifically about one of her more recent books, The manager’s plan might have almost worked, but Wylding Hall is maybe also haunted by something or someone, too.It’s that something or someone that I want to talk about, the way Hand writes this haunting, because never in my life have I read a book in such a state of suspended tension—with the hair on the back of my neck raised and gooseflesh over my arms—as this one.It’s a book that begins with what might be a poem (technically is, from Thomas Campion, written in the early 17It is possible that this summoning works, that once these words are spoken, someone is coming.

this wasn't the first book i had listened to that used this format but i still had trouble keeping the band members straight.

What really happened that summer at Wylding Hall?

I knew basically nothing about this book so this was quite a surprise.

There are no answers to the mystery, just a lingering sense of unease and questions about what happened. I mean 70s folk rockers in a haunted house? The band itself, Windhollow Faire, is haunted by a tragedy in its recent past as events open. He’d been under the snow for 1,200 years, and when they discovered him, he was still wearing his clothes, a cloak of woven grass and a bearskin cap, and in his pocket they found a little bag of grass and tinder and a bit of dead coal. These are songs that have been around for hundreds, maybe thousands of years.