Looking Glass Sound: from the bestselling and award winning author of The Last House on Needless Street

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A plot involving a serial killer in rural Maine is disturbing but, let’s be honest, standard fare for a Stephen King-inspired horror novel. However, the Dagger Man story is just a façade covering the true horrors that await in the second half of Looking Glass Sound. It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives. Even as an adult, the still lurking pent-up frustrations of teenage angst make Wilder Harlow the most unreliable of narrators. His entire life has been shaped by the events during the summers of his youth, and his perspective is skewed at best. It would be easy to pity Wilder, but by turns, he is both the hero and then the villain of the piece. The same can also be said of his friends. Their various actions and reactions are a constant reminder that humans are far from perfect. We’re all capable of doing good, being the sort of people we aspire to be, but we’re also more than capable of being just as bad. It turns out the only thing that makes us different is that some people are better at hiding their flawed tendencies than others.

Looking Glass Sound: from the bestselling and award winning

A deeply dark and unexpected tale about families, love, hate, the long shadow of the past, and the redemptive power of storytelling. Clever, poetic and immersive.”— Araminta Hall, author of Imperfect Women But the rural New England town is also home to a serial killer known as the Dagger Man of Whistler Bay. As if that weren’t creepy enough, the Dagger Man also takes threatening Polaroid photos of children as they sleep. Wilder’s summer becomes inexorably linked to the story of the Dagger Man, as illusory friendships are shattered and his parents’ troubled marriage hurls toward inevitable divorce. In host to start service automatically, you have to make systemd user level service. Create file like that, if you use pulseaudio:

Read Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

I had planned to journal each day, here. But I don’t want to write down what happened this morning. I wash my face over and over again with cold water before breakfast, so Mom and Dad don’t see redness around my eyes or any other traces of tears. I am using qemu 5.1 (I might be wrong on that though as I compiled it from scratch I think maybe it’s older as well) with a Linux Mint 20 installation on a 5.9.1 kernel. I am also administering the VMs with Virt-Manager. She drags me to the living room where the air conditioner roars like lions. Dad holds a piece of paper. ‘Probate is finished,’ he says. ‘The cottage is ours.’ The paper trembles; I can’t tell if it’s from the air-con or whether his hands are shaking. He looks exhausted. Good and bad can feel like the same thing, I think, if they’re intense enough. Ward is a master of tugging at the strings of a deeply personal story until she's woven them into an epic, terrifying, multi-generational web. Looking Glass Sound is haunting and immersive. I loved getting caught up in it."

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One of the most unique aspects of "Looking Glass Sound" is its story structure. It's told from multiple points of view that occasionally seem to overlap and fold in on themselves, which allows the reader to piece together the story slowly, like solving a puzzle. This weaves together feelings of doubt and intrigue that build throughout the book. It’s no secret that I’m obsessed with Catriona Ward’s precious books that I have read so I was highly anticipating her newest books and even my extremely high expectations were blown out of the water. One of the finest literary craftsmen currently working is writing horror. Looking Glass Sound is a masterclass in atmosphere. Nearly every sentence is faultless, gutting and precise. Come for the family secrets but stay for the humanity, tenderness, and empathy that are so central to Ward's storytelling. This book will truly haunt you long after you read." - Olivie BlakeIn a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood summer companions and the killer that stalked the small New England town. Of the body they found, and the horror of that discovery echoing down the decades. And of Sky, Wilder’s one-time best friend, who stole his unfinished memoir and turned it into a lurid bestselling novel, Looking Glass Sound.

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Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Tor Nightfire and NetGalley for my gifted copies. Hands down one of the best ARCs I’ve ever received. Now that probably sounds weird, and it is, because when Sky and I part ways I realise that deep in my soul I believe that everything that happened, the whole experience, every ounce of feeling it generated, belongs to me. As if we needed further evidence, Sundial confirms Ward as one of the brightest stars in horror fiction. She’s brilliant.”— Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and AraratHelp! I’m Wilder Harlow and I’m trapped in this review. Before that, my prison was more substantial and somewhat of a labyrinth, although perhaps telling you that Looking Glass Sound was like a prison is a white lie. My time in Catriona Ward‘s book depicts all the facets of my life – joy and love, loneliness and despair, fear and anger. Satisfaction and pain, too. Plenty of that. It’s a book that examines how characters are trapped by the stories they’re in, confined to lives delineated by writers, or whomever is in control of the narrative.

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For readers who enjoyed The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill or Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand. However, I refuse to leave you on a sour note. I just won’t. As nervous, skittish and under-a-cloud as I was in my youth, there’s love in me and I do love Looking Glass Sound which has given me life, no matter who really owns the stories inside. I’ve read well and I’ve read widely and very few books are this beguiling, imaginative or ambitious. You won’t be able to leave the atmosphere it conjures, or escape the creepy thoughts and memories, which will worm their way into your consciousness and give you a jolt of horror whenever you see an oyster knife, an oil drum or a Coke bottle top, for example. Unbelievably good.... so clever, so haunting and melancholic. It's so beautiful, so dark, and so vivid." —Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne

Catriona Ward’s new novel, Looking Glass Sound, is an exploration of love, loss, and trauma viewed through the eyes of a man revisiting his formative years.