In the early 1970's, a new folk music band emerged with so
much promise that it seemed success would definitely
follow
them for quite some time. The band is called Windhollow
Faire and consists of five members. Their first album
garners enough attention that they are all set to write
and
record a second one. Band manager Tom Haring decides that
the best way to insure they have the privacy to let their
creativity emerge is to send them to a large old mansion
in
the country for the summer.
Wylding Hall is huge and located in the middle of nowhere
just on the outskirts of a very small village. Tom makes
arrangements for them to stay a full three months. Things
seem to go well for a while. They produce several new
songs
that they know are astonishingly wonderful.
One of the band members, Julian Blake, is physically
beautiful, painfully shy and almost supernaturally
talented.
He is also a bit odd in many ways and has taken to walking
into the surrounding woods late at night. Julian is also
engaging into things of the occult, but the rest of the
band
members do not know what he is really doing and they do
not
seem to care all that much. They will realize later that
they should have paid much more attention to him.
The house itself is very strange. There are doors that are
locked sometimes and at other times swing right open. It
is
easy to get lost while exploring the parts of the house
where they are not living. Wylding Hall seems to almost be
alive, a fact which becomes more important when the great
mystery of that summer occurs.
Told in a narrative form from all of the people that were
involved at the time, WYLDING HALL is a compelling tale
filled with plenty of mysteries, chills, and overall
creepiness that I fell in love with upon reading the first
page. To me, WYLDING HALL is the perfect supernatural
tale.
While the page length is ideal for the type of story it
is,
I was still left with wanting more. I did not want to say
goodbye to these characters. In addition, I simply wanted
the story to keep going because of the tight hold it had
over me. I could have happily continued reading for weeks
on
end.
Having said that, I must say that the ending of WYLDING
HALL
is rather satisfying. You will not find everything wrapped
up in a nice, neat bow, but you are given the gift of
deciding on your own what the possibilities are in what
actually occurred that summer. Written in such a way as to
make the story seem completely real, you will forget that
it
is a work of fiction.
If you happen to enjoy books in the supernatural genre,
WYLDING HALL is the perfect way to lose yourself for a few
hours. You may also find yourself wanting more, much as I
did. Whatever else you may feel about WYLDING HALL; you
will
not be disappointed at the time you spent getting to know
the members of Windhollow Faire and delving into the
events
of that long ago summer.
From the award-winning author of Waking the Moon, a short
novel of unexpected terror
When the young members of a British acid-folk band are
compelled by their manager to record their unique music,
they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house
with
dark secrets. There they create the album that will make
their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake,
the group’s lead singer, disappears within the mansion and
is never seen or heard from again.
Now, years later, the surviving musicians, along with
their
friends and lovers—including a psychic, a photographer,
and
the band’s manager—meet with a young documentary filmmaker
to tell their own versions of what happened that summer.
But
whose story is true? And what really happened to Julian
Blake?
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