The story begins after a terrible tragedy, which leads the band manager to isolate the band in an old country-house, not only to heal the group’s members but also to create a new album. Even though the pop culture of this period will be familiar to most Western readers, the specifically British context will be alien to most Americans and Canadians. The characters are primarily members of an English folk band, who came of age in the era of F airport Convention in the late 1960s, when the folk rock movement was a pop culture force in Great Britain. The novel is a ghost story set in a remote English country house in the 1960s. This year I want to review a novel, Wylding Hall, by Elizabeth Hand. For example, last year I talked about ghosts of Hong Kong and Macau. Earlier this month I talked about the ghost ship the Baltimore, which was found with only a single survivor, a woman, who soon vanished from Nova Scotia and was never seen again. Creative Commons license, WikipediaĮvery year I cover an appropriate international mystery for Halloween.
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