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'Totally, brilliantly original.' Stephen King on HEX 'Creepy and
gripping and original' - George R.R. Martin on HEX On a foggy
winter morning two children discover the impossible: the wreck of
an eighteenth-century ship stranded in a field. One enters the
hatch on the deck and is never seen again. And she isn't the last
to disappear . . . Soon a government agency begins to investigate,
determined to uncover the ship's secrets before a media storm
erupts. They enlist Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the
occult, to unravel the mystery, who soon realises the ship could be
a harbinger of an ancient doom awakened under the sea. In a
maelstrom of international intrigue and pure terror, Grim must race
against time as he comes face to face with an open doorway to the
apocalypse. Praise for Thomas Olde Heuvelt 'A compulsive page
turner mixing supernatural survival horror and pulp adventure' Paul
Tremblay 'Hallucinatory, eerie and terrifying' Catriona Ward 'A
haunting contribution to the literature of folk horror' Ramsey
Campbell 'Reminiscent of vintage Stephen King' John Connolly 'A
great writer, the next genre superstar' Paul Cornell 'Takes the
horror/thriller genre to a whole new level' Sarah Lotz "Horrific,
poignant, creepy, brilliantly written' Jeff VanderMeer
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Echo (Paperback)
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Oracle (Hardcover)
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
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Hex (Paperback)
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It's One Thing to Lose Your Life It's Another to Lose Your Soul
'Totally, brilliantly original' Stephen King on HEX Dutch writer
Thomas Olde Heuvelt is a Hugo Award winner and has been hailed as
the future of speculative fiction in Europe. Echo follows his
sensational debut novel, HEX. Travel journalist and mountaineer
Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy,
Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick's own injuries are as
extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and
unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia - but he remembers everything.
He remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the
Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps. He
remembers an ominous sense that they were not alone. He remembers
something waiting for them . . . Sam Avery wants to be glad that
Nick is alive and coming home, but the accident has stirred up
memories that Sam thought were long buried. Soon he realizes that
it isn't just the trauma of the accident that haunts Nick.
Something has awakened inside of him, something that endangers the
lives of everyone around him . . . 'Creepy and girpping and
original' George R. R. Martin on HEX 'Reminiscent of vintage
Stephen King' John Connolly on HEX 'The next genre superstar' Paul
Cornell
'Echo is a compulsive page turner mixing supernatural survival
horror and pulp adventure' Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of
Ghosts 'Hallucinatory, eerie and terrifying' Catriona Ward, author
of The Last House on Needless Street 'Echo is a haunting
contribution to the literature of folk horror' Ramsey Campbell 'The
most frightening opening scene ever written' The Guardian 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.
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HEX (Paperback)
Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Translated by Nancy Forest- Flier
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The greats of fiction Stephen King and George R. R. Martin lead the
fanfare for HEX, so be assured that Thomas Olde Heuvelt's debut
English novel is both terrifying and unputdownable in equal
measure. Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay until death.
Whoever comes to stay, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the
seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock
Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn
shut. Blind and silenced, she walks the streets and enters homes at
will. She stands next to children's beds for nights on end. So
accustomed to her have the townsfolk become that they often forget
she's there. Or what a threat she poses. Because if the stitches
are ever cut open, the story goes, the whole town will die. The
curse must not be allowed to spread. The elders of Black Spring
have used high-tech surveillance to quarantine the town. Frustrated
with being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers decide to break
the strict regulations and go viral with the haunting. But, in so
doing, they send the town spiraling into a dark nightmare.
'Echo is a compulsive page turner mixing supernatural survival
horror and pulp adventure' Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of
Ghosts 'Hallucinatory, eerie and terrifying' Catriona Ward, author
of The Last House on Needless Street 'Echo is a haunting
contribution to the literature of folk horror' Ramsey Campbell 'The
most frightening opening scene ever written' The Guardian 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.
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