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Product Details

  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Dark House Press (July 15, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1940430038
  • ISBN-13: 978-1940430034
  • Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 5.8 x 7.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsA creepy tale of small town vengeance and self discovery
By MyBookishWays on July 21, 2014
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Emily Collins has been spending the last 5 years or so working to support herself and her musician husband, while he plays gigs and crashes at friends’ houses. When Emily discovers that he’s been cheating on her (probably for a while), instead of breaking down, she throws him out, and discovers newfound freedom. Perhaps it’s fate, then, when she gets a letter notifying her that her Aunt Frannie has died, and left her Heartshorne, Oklahoma house to Emily. It’s almost too easy for Emily to shed the remnants of her old life, and head to Heartshorne, the place that her mother had left so long ago, vowing never to go back.

When Emily finally arrives in Heartshorne, she finds that Frannie’s house is a little dilapidated and worn, but that’s ok, because it’s hers. Soon she is greeted by the local Reverend, Levi Richardson, and soon learns that Frannie was actually killed in the home. In spite of that, Emily feels a connection to Heartshorne, and after finding out a terrible secret about her mother’s childhood that she never shared, Emily decides to find out the truth. She starts digging, with the help of a new friend, Jonathan, whose talent with tarot serves to strengthen Emily’s resolve, and whose companionship Emily comes to cherish. When more people disappear and start turning up dead, Emily feels compelled to make things right.

The title refers to a man-made lake in Heartshorne that serves as a literal and metaphorical repository of secrets. It’s dark, and beautiful, and sometimes gives off a menacing fog, but it seems to draw evil like a moth to a flame.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsHaunting, bone-chilling, and lovely -- perfect summer read
By Victor David Giron on July 2, 2014
Format: Paperback
Letitia Trent's years a poet shine in this fantastic debut that is both flat out creepy yet airy and lovely to read. Guarantee you'll think twice about dipping into a lake out in the middle of nowhere after reading Echo Lake!!!
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5.0 out of 5 starsfantastic novel
By bookmagic VINE VOICE on January 23, 2015
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This was such an amazing book. I love a good literary suspense story because they have a lot of depth and keep you hooked. Emily Collins has traded in her life to move to a small, isolated town in Oklahoma, as she has inherited a small house from a relative she never knew. Emily never knew any family besides her mother, who has passed away. Emily's roots are in Echo Lake but she finds more than she expected.
This was incredibly well-written and will probably be a top ten read for 2015.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBeautifully Written Page Turning Horror.
By Cyndi on July 26, 2014
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Trent's debut novel is creepy, lyrical, and smart with sometimes very humorous observations from believable, feeling characters. A literary horror novel that brings to life in your minds eye a quite accurate illustration of a woman, Emily who moves to a small town in Oklahoma and is greeted with murder and small town ethics both of which make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. The mystery of the novel keeps you flipping pages to see what happens next.

tl;dr Creepy, beautiful, great characters.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA suspenseful, insightful and moving horror story
By C. Baab on July 21, 2014
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A young woman, Emily, is adrift in her own life when she inherits a house in Heartshorne, Oklahoma. She moves in with the vague intention of establishing more of a connection to her mother's family (whom she never met), and she's slowly drawn into the violent history of the town and of her own relatives. As fresh crimes are committed and old ones come to light, Emily has to confront what she believes about her past and also her own capacity for taking action and making change. At the center of the story is Echo Lake, which seems to be the source of all the violence--I'd say the lake itself is a deft and not at all heavy handed stand-in for the town's collective yet still personal subconscious, those motivations we all have but can't bring ourselves to admit to. This speaks to one of the things this novel does best, which is portray rural life, poverty and issues around consent in a nuanced, sympathetic, yet still critical way.

This is a hugely satisfying and promising first book--Stephen King by way of Marilynne Robinson--and I can't wait to read Trent's next one.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThere was nothing new in Heartshorne. Everything ran on a loop.
By Dino Parenti on August 13, 2014
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(Original review appears in Pantheon Magazine at http://pantheonmag.com/book-review-echo-lake-by-leticia-trent/)

Letitia Trent’s, Echo Lake, the flagship novel release from Dark House Press (who gave us the neo-noir anthology, The New Black, in May), is an atmospheric, moody traipse through the hard soil of memory and dark pasts that would just as soon remain buried, unmolested by prying eyes and modernity’s judgment. Part rural noir, part haunted mystery, it mainlines smoothly into the bloodstream and works its magic one unrushed line at a time until, like most (good) highs, you find yourself oscillating between past and present without demarcations.

Emily Collins, 30, who works “a proper day job that required pumps and stockings, her hair arranged in some semblance of order, and a professional wardrobe of blacks and neutrals” in Columbus, Ohio, finds a letter one day while sorting her musician husband’s mail shortly after their marriage has fallen apart. Sent from Oklahoma by a lawyer representing her family, it states that her great aunt, Fran Collins, has recently died, and left her house to her niece’s only living relative—Emily.

Yielding to the idea that a fresh start from her failed marriage is the right move—and spurred to no small extent by recent dreams in which her dead mother (Connie) suggests likewise—she packs her car and drives to Heartshorne, her home town that borders the man-made Echo Lake which for decades has submerged an older town, its skeletal fingers lurking just beneath the surface.
Only after arriving to the dilapidated, isolated house does she learn from the local Baptist pastor that her great aunt had in fact been murdered there. In truth, Emily has unwittingly walked into a town recently rife with unsolved murders and disappearances.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

What happened to proofreading? This novel is FILLED with typos!

Published 13 months ago by Noillik
3.0 out of 5 starsDeliciously Soft Suspense

I so appreciate and admire quiet horror, literary horror, a story that haunts, that is atmospheric and has a dark lurking presence. Echo Lake is a story that has these qualities. Read more

Published 15 months ago by Paula Cappa Reviews
5.0 out of 5 starsMoving and compelling--highly recommended

Echo Lake is a compelling novel and a stunning achievement. I have been a fan of Trent's work for the last nine years (mostly her poetry), and it is not too surprising to me that... Read more

Published 17 months ago by Chris Wells
5.0 out of 5 starsThere is some delicious darkness in this one and so much under the...

There is some delicious darkness in this one and so much under the surface pulling you down as you read. Read more

Published 18 months ago by D. S. Atkinson
3.0 out of 5 starsLiked it, didn't LOVE it

Liked it, didn't LOVE it. I'd say it's more of a 3 1/2 star book, but not quite 4 as far as my tastes are concerned. Read more

Published 19 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsLetitia Trent's novel is a heady and haunting mix of ...

Letitia Trent's novel is a heady and haunting mix of Peter Straub and Joyce Carol Oates. Echo Lake should have fans who span across several reader categories -- literary, horror,... Read more

Published 20 months ago by Okla Elliott
4.0 out of 5 starsgreat debut novel!

By the time this story gets going, it rolls along with a kind of effortlessness that just pulled me along. Read more

Published 20 months ago by J. Hanson
5.0 out of 5 starsTrent's debut novel is very mysterious and catches the readers ...

Trent's debut novel is very mysterious and catches the readers attention by bringing possible outcomes to real life. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Kimberly

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