The Sound of the Dark

By Daniel Church

Book Overview

Fans of Catriona Ward and Stephen King will find plenty to enjoy in this biting horror novel where not all is what you see... or hear.

In 1983 experimental artist Tony Mathias began work on a new installation - a collage of visuals and sounds collected at an abandoned RAF base called Warden Fell. Various stories and rumours swirled around the place but Tony was interested only in the echoes of history. However, soon after visiting the site to tape-record the sounds there, Tony returned to the caravan - where he was staying with his family - and killed his wife, his two children and then himself. Another dark twist in Warden Fell's history?

Decades later, Cally Darker gets the chance to investigate the terrible story and perhaps even solve the mystery - a fantastic exclusive story for her true-crime podcast.

Tony's actress sister Stella is desperate for the mystery to be solved before she dies. Eager to do all she can to help, she passes on the tapes left behind by her brother. But before long, Cally realises that Warden Fell has a far older and darker story to tell. Be careful what you listen to...

The Sound of the Dark unleashes a horror from deep time into the light of the day. When you hear it, a door opens and nothing, not even yourself, will ever be the same again...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915998409
• ISBN13: 9781915998408
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Angry Robot
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Creepy

The premise of this book was so darkly creepy! A mysterious and not talked about murdered family back in the 80s and a woman digging up answers to make a podcast about it. What could go wrong? It was a good story that maybe could have been a bit shorter but I did have to keep reading so I could find out the truth and see if Cally Darker was going to survive the experience and if the truth could be found after all. The horror of this book was great, from the mysterious tapes containing Tony Mathias' remains of his last art project and journal entries, to Cally's dreams/nightmares that might be more real than she thinks, and the evil that lurks, waiting for its next victim. Reminiscent a bit like The Ring to me though it does take a sharp detour with coverups, why the evil exists, plus one really really awful evil guy. That part kinda got a bit hokey for me though I still enjoyed reading it. So, a good read with some well done horror, a bit too long, and a kind of hokey way to end it though I have read much worse and so this is pretty solidly in the middle. I am glad I got the chance to read it.