Echo is een huiveringwekkende thriller over obsessie, bezetenheid en de onverwoestbare kracht van de natuur. 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…

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2013. Contents: “A Rumor of Angels” by Dale Bailey “The Too-Clever Fox” by Leigh Bardugo “Thief of War” by Beth Bernobich “A Window or a Small Box” by Jedediah Berry “Contains Multitudes” by Ben Burgis “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu “Old Dead Futures” by Tina Connolly “The Elephant in the Room” by Paul Cornell “Lawful Interception” by Cory Doctorow “Wakulla Springs” by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages “A Terror” by Jeffrey Ford “The Hanging Game” by Helen Marshall “In the Greenwood” by Mari Ness “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt “Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes “Rag and Bone” by Priya Sharma “Equoid” by Charles Stross “Sing” by Karin Tidbeck “Terrain” by Genevieve Valentine “The Best We Can” by Carrie Vaughn “Super Bass” by Kai Ashante Wilson

People send their dreams and wishes floating down the Mae Ping River with the hope that those dreams will be captured, read and come true. It is a surprise what some wish for and why. One can never know what's inside someone's heart - what they really truly want, and those dreams sometimes reveal our true selves. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a 17th century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters your homes at will. She stands next to your bed for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened. The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated with being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers decide to break their strict regulations and go viral with the haunting, but in so doing send the town spiraling into the dark, medieval practices of the past.

Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children's bed for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened or the consequences will be too terrible to bear. The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated with being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers decide to break their strict regulations and go viral with the haunting. But, in so doing, they send the town spiraling into dark, medieval practices of the distant past. This chilling novel heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in mainstream horror and dark fantasy.