Echo (inbunden, eng)

''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 companionHis 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 makeHe 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.