Holt House: The Eden Book Society
L. G. Vey
Aug 2020 · QUEST from W. F. Howes Limited · Narrated by Charlie Higson, Aliya Whitely, and Walter Chidlow
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AN EDEN BOOK SOCIETY EDITION
The Forgotten recordings, featuring bonus material including a new foreword by Charlie Higson.
If you see one, stay down. and stay quiet...
It's a quiet house, sheltered, standing in a mass of tangled old trees called the Holtwood. Raymond watches it. He's been watching it, through a gap in the fence at the bottom of the garden, for weeks. Thinking about the elderly owners, Mr and Mrs Latch, who took him in one night when he was a frightened boy caught up in an emergency. Mr Latch showed him something that was kept in a wardrobe in the spare room. He can't remember what it was. He only knows how sick it made him feel. Raymond watches Holt House. He has to remember what he saw. He has to get inside.
First published in 1972 by The Eden Book Society, Holt House was the only work of published fiction by L.G. Vey, a popular scriptwriter of 1950s horror and science fiction dramas. At the time, Holt House was a peculiarly dark and mournful footnote in Vey's career, but published now for the first time outside of The Eden Book Society it becomes a timely reflection on the toxic frailty of masculinity as it ages.
The Forgotten recordings, featuring bonus material including a new foreword by Charlie Higson.
If you see one, stay down. and stay quiet...
It's a quiet house, sheltered, standing in a mass of tangled old trees called the Holtwood. Raymond watches it. He's been watching it, through a gap in the fence at the bottom of the garden, for weeks. Thinking about the elderly owners, Mr and Mrs Latch, who took him in one night when he was a frightened boy caught up in an emergency. Mr Latch showed him something that was kept in a wardrobe in the spare room. He can't remember what it was. He only knows how sick it made him feel. Raymond watches Holt House. He has to remember what he saw. He has to get inside.
First published in 1972 by The Eden Book Society, Holt House was the only work of published fiction by L.G. Vey, a popular scriptwriter of 1950s horror and science fiction dramas. At the time, Holt House was a peculiarly dark and mournful footnote in Vey's career, but published now for the first time outside of The Eden Book Society it becomes a timely reflection on the toxic frailty of masculinity as it ages.
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Caroline Price
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September 28, 2020
Traditional horror, just my cup of tea! I was lucky enough to be given a copy of Holt House by L. G. Vey, in audiobook form in exchange for an honest review and quite honestly - I loved it! It's a really creepy story about Raymond who has been watching Holt House for weeks and thinking about Mr and Mrs Latch, who own it. He's only been inside once, when he was a boy and Mr Latch showed him something that was kept in a wardrobe, but he can't remember what it was, he only remembers how sick it made him feel...what happens is a real treat for horror lovers.
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