ECHO
'The long-awaited new novel from the Dutch author of Hex is an ambitious, capacious work […] containing everything from psychological suspense to cosmic horror. With moments of wonder as well as terror, it looks likely to be one of the highlights of this year’s horror scene.'
- The Guardian
'Uniquely terrifying… It’s rare to find a horror novel that’s genuinely hair-raising, but every chapter here introduces some new nightmarish detail that’ll push you to switch on every light in your home.'
- SFX Magazine
'Chilling, stealthy, horrendous, Echo grips like an ice-pick and chills like a glacier.'
- The Daily Mail
ECHO - UNITED KINGDOM (2022)
Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick's own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia - but he remembers everything.
He remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps. He remembers an ominous sense that they were not alone. He remembers something waiting for them . . .
Sam Avery wants to be glad that Nick is alive and coming home, but the accident has stirred up memories that Sam thought were long buried. Soon he realizes that it isn't just the trauma of the accident that haunts Nick. Something has awakened inside of him, something that endangers the lives of everyone around him . . .
ECHO - UNITED STATES (2022)
Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia—but he remembers everything.
He remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps.
He remembers how the slopes of Maudit were eerily quiet, and how, when they entered its valley, they got the ominous sense that they were not alone.
He remembers: something was waiting for them...
But it isn’t just the memory of the accident that haunts Nick. Something has awakened inside of him, something that endangers the lives of everyone around him…
It’s one thing to lose your life. It’s another to lose your soul.
ECO - SPAIN (2023)
Cuando el alpinista Nick Grevers sale del coma, descubre que su compañero de escalada está desaparecido y lo han dado por muerto. Nick, que tiene la cara cubierta de vendas y horribles heridas, alega amnesia.
Pero en realidad lo recuerda todo.
Recuerda cómo ambos sintieron una singular atracción magnética por el Maudit, un pico remoto y escasamente documentado en los Alpes suizos. Recuerda la impresión de que no estaban solos. Recuerda que ahí arriba había algo o alguien a la espera...
Y tampoco dice que ahora tiene una extraña sensación. Como si algo hubiera despertado en su interior.
ECHO - GERMANY (2021)
Eigentlich sollte es eine ganz gewöhnliche Bergtour werden, als Nick mit seinem Kumpel Augustin zu einer Kletterpartie in den Schweizer Alpen aufbricht. Doch dann kommt es unterwegs zu einem tragischen Unfall: Augustin stürzt in eine Gletscherspalte, Nick wird schwer verletzt ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert – er wird für immer entstellt sein. Sam, Nicks Lebensgefährte, ist zunächst nur froh, dass sein Freund überlebt hat, aber dann passieren immer mysteriösere Dinge in Nicks Umfeld. Auch Nick selbst verhält sich immer seltsamer, und schon bald wird Sam klar, dass Nick etwas aus den Bergen mitgebracht hat. Etwas Böses ...
ECHO - THE NETHERLANDS (2019)
Nick Grevers en zijn klimmaatje Augustin worden aangetrokken door de Maudit, een afgelegen berg in de Zwitserse Alpen. Documentatie over de berg is schaars, het is er ongewoon stil, en als ze de vallei betreden bekruipt hen het onheilspellende gevoel dat ze niet alleen zijn. Niet veel later is Augustin dood en ontwaakt Nick uit een coma. Hij is verminkt en heeft zijn gezicht in het verband. Een moeizame revalidatie wacht, maar algauw beseft Nick dat het niet alleen het trauma van het ongeluk is dat hem achtervolgt.
Er is iets in hem gewekt…