![]() In less assured, well, hands, Wylding Hall could taste stale: the cursed rock band the spooky English country house – you can see the risk of cliché. A legend is born – or reborn, as links to earlier English myths reveal. “Inexplicable and terrible – things are always good for the music business,” as onetime manager Tom Haring says of what transpires. The story is pieced together, rockumentary style, out of retrospective accounts from former members, followers, and associates of a seminal Seventies folk-rock band, Windhollow Faire, creators of a single classic album, Wylding Hall, recorded at the house of the same name, “a beautiful old wreck of a stately home in the English countryside,” during one enchanted – and ultimately deadly – summer. ![]() “It began as a riff on Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca,” she has said elsewhere, and the riff developed into a mesmerizing original composition with, as it happens, a strong musical theme. Elizabeth Hand, a prize-winning New York-born author who lives in Maine, has produced one of the best English mystery tales for many a day. ![]()
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