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A suspenseful masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Tim Lebbon. In the darkness of a underground cave system, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive and destroy. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. As the hordes lay waste to Europe, a girl watches to see if they will cross the sea. Deaf for many years, she knows how to live in silence; now, it is her family’s only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can sit out the plague. But will it ever end? And what kind of world will be left?

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"A deep, emotionally driven novel that has just enough creature-feature heebie-jeebies to make it as much fun as it is captivating, The Silence makes the grade as one of the better apocalyptic horror novels you will read." - Ravenous Monster

"The horror works well, and the monsters are legitimately scary, as are the lengths some people will go in an effort to survive." - Bricks of the Dead

"Tim Lebbon does a fantastic job of showing how horrific events can shape not only adults, but also children, and the bravery of his characters amidst such self-doubt is heartwrenching." - My Bookish Ways

"The treatment of Ally’s disability makes this book unique not only from a standpoint of inclusivity, but because it introduces unique problems to the characters." - Paper Droids

"Lean but meaty and damn near unputdownable" - The Blood Shed

"The degradation of modern society as the swarm moves on is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Fans of environmental horror such as Stephen King’s The Mist and creature feature horror flicks will no doubt love the end of the world as we knew it and the beginning of Tim Lebbon’s new one" - Hell Notes

About the Author

Tim Lebbon is the New York Times bestselling author of the movie novelizations of 30 Days of Night and The Cabin in the Woods. He has also written many critically acclaimed horror and dark fantasy novels. Tim has won three British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker, a Tombstone and been a finalist for the International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Titan Books (September 27, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1781168822
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1781168820
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.18 x 1.03 x 6.88 inches

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I'm a New York Times-bestselling horror, thriller and fantasy writer from a little village in South Wales. I've written over 45 novels, including several in collaboration with Christopher Golden, as well as dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories. I've written tie in novels in the Alien, Predator, Helllboy, Star Wars, and Firefly universes. Maybe a mash-up of all those properties would be fun!

My novel The Silence was made into a Netflix movie starring Kiernan Shipka and Stanley Tucci. I even got to be in the movie, starring as a bloodied corpse!

My novella Pay The Ghost was a 2015 movie starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Uli Edel.

My latest novel EDEN is an eco-horror thriller. Josh Malerman calls it 'Instantly cinematic'. Sarah Pinborough calls it 'Smart, prescient and gripping.'

I have several other projects currently in development for TV and the big screen, including original screenplays and a TV series with a US broadcaster.

I've won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award and a Scribe, as well as being shortlisted for the prestigious World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Awards. I love running, biking and swimming, and often try to put them all together in long-distance triathlons. I raced my first Ironman in 2013. At the time it was definitely, without a doubt, absolutely the only ironman I'd ever do. Ironman Canada on my 50th birthday in 2019 was my 5th...

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Strong tension in this new blend of apocalypse

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2016

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Cheers to Lebbon for writing another apocalyptic story that sets the genre on its ear and plows forward. After loving his inter-dimensional zombie epic, Coldbrook, I was very excited to see him impress me with something equally as unique. For the most part he succeeded. The Silence adds sound as a new element of horror, creating an apocalyptic invasion of deadly vesps, a bird that reminded me of pterodactyls, which hunts purely by sound because they've evolved within a large cave for who knows how long.

Lebbon has a strong cast of characters that I immensely enjoyed meeting and wanting to see survive. The story is told between the viewpoints of the husband/father, Huw and his daughter, Ally. Huw and his wife have been enduring for a long time on the brink of losing their marriage. This grey area between the happiness marriage starts with and the hopelessness that ends in divorce kept the arc with Huw and his wife as one that hooked me from early on and ended as one of the better aspects of the story.

Ally's tale was equally as endearing, from both her perspective and her father's. His love for his daughter and family was a great reason for my affection to this story. Ally was in a car accident years ago that took her grandparent's lives--Huw's parents--and left her deaf and suffering from memory loss of the event. Her deafness was more than just one way of increasing the fear of silence; it put us in a new perspective to seeing the world flip upside down into chaos. That change in her life prior to the vesp outbreak and how it built her character to handle the events to come made her one of the strongest characters in the book.

The writing is very professional and includes social media excerpts that make this apocalypse more lifelike than most, and while the story is very good, it never quite broke the ceiling into a five star. We have the adventure from getting the family to finding safety with a handful of shocking twists in between, but there's something about the plot that didn't match the potential that I was hoping for. The ending wasn't a knockout, even though I was pretty satisfied with how the character relationships concluded. I'd put this one high on my list of apocalyptic thrillers, but it's probably not in my top ten.

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Will Silence be enough to protect you?

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2016

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THE SILENCE, by Tim Lebbon has a lot of people asking if it is like the novel BIRD BOX. Having read both novels, I can honestly say that the two are completely different. THE SILENCE takes us to the UK BEFORE some world-changing events occur. We have the opportunity to meet the main characters in their day-to-day settings--and therefore learn about their normal lives--before the mayhem begins.

The only difference in the family that this novel features is that the oldest daughter, Ally, was in an accident years before and is now deaf. She communicates by reading lips, and sign language. While this supposedly gives them an advantage in a world overrun by "things" that hone in on sound, I still don't see it as THAT much of an advantage. Yes, they can communicate silently, but if startled, she (and the rest of the family) are still able to scream, etc., without thinking.

I don't want to ruin the story for others, so I won't go into details about the new "threat", but I do want to add that Lebbon did a fantastic job in this area! He brought something "new" and interesting to the genre, and gave us only the information that the characters had. This tactic meant that we were "closer" to them, as we journeyed alongside them without the advantage of addition knowledge. In the end, this was a story of one particular family's decisions and adaptions while they tried to survive the new threat unleashed.

The origin of the threat also had enough to give that moment of "what if?", as we really don't know all there is to know about parts of our planet.

An excellent thriller with horror elements in abundance.

Recommended!

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I love a good end of the world novel

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2015

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I love a good end of the world novel. I love a good horror novel. I really love monsters. Throw them all together in a blender. Hit the high octane button and you have The Silence. Right now I would read anything Tim Lebbon writes. He has been on a roll for me. I don't think anyone is pushing the creepy meter quite as effectively as he is.

Coming off of writing one of my favorite zombie novels with Coldbrook, Lebbon turns in one of my favorite apocalypse stories. When the discovery of a cave system releases some nasty monsters into our ecosystem they sweep across Europe and Asia killing everything in their path.

The story follows Ally and her family as they flee across the U.K. seeking a safe place from the flying bundles of death. Early on the world realizes sound is deadly. Any noise attracts the vesps (the flying carnivorous death machines). For Ally who has lost her hearing years earlier in a deadly car crash the world of silence is nothing new but she must help her family adjust before they become a meal for the flying plague.

The story moves at a brisk pace and is full of horror and creepiness. In the end what makes the story a winner for me is Ally. I love her and her family. Their love for each other and their desire to make sure they survive this new quiet world keeps me invested in the story all the way through. Lebbon doesn't waste a word. He weaves them together beautifully. It has been a long time since a book both creeped me out and made me tear up (The tears came in one of the most horrifying and human moments of the book. It happened in the car. That's all I am giving you. I don't want to ruin the moment).

If you like your horror mixed with a large dose of love and humanity than this book is for you. If you have never read Tim Lebbon before, this is a good place to start. After you love this book go out and buy Coldbrook, you won't regret it.

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KevinF

Shhhh!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2015

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Here we enjoy a new and solid twist on the dystopian / apocalyptic / Earth overrun by nasty beasties genre. Scientists unwittingly free an unknown species of blind, fast reproducing predators on the world when they breech a huge unexplored caving system in Moldova.

The action starts almost from page one as this plague of cat sized, flying monsters spread swiftly across Europe. Sound is a giveaway and these eyeless creatures use it to pinpoint their prey – whole screaming towns and cities of it.

Our main protagonists, a family of four, take to the road in an attempt to remain one step ahead of the approaching, murderous flocks; their goal is a safe haven in Scotland. But this family has an important advantage over most other survivors in this huge population move; they can communicate silently through sign language due to their eldest daughter’s profound deafness.

The sense of menace is palpable as they race northwards, listening to radio reports detailing the speed and spread of the vast clouds of creatures on their heels. Will they make it? And if not, how far can they safely get?

I’d never read any of Tim Lebbon’s work before and I’m delighted to have found him. The Silence is a well written, thoughtful, tense, well-paced thriller that kept me reading later into the night than I normally would. To my delight he has a large back catalogue and if only a fraction of his work measures up to The Silence then I feel I’m in for a treat with my next few reads.

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Valerie J.

Repetitive and Implausible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2019

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I discovered the author during reading 30 Days of Night which was excellent, as were his Alien books. I have them all, still, in my large book collection and I know I will read them again some day. The Silence however, has already been given away and I only finished it an hour ago. It was not what I hoped for at all. It felt rushed, as if the author hadn’t bothered to research or think about scenes which were implausible (like a terminally ill woman attacking a tall strong man and hauling him with her over a 4ft garden wall!!!) Perhaps I should have been warned when I saw that the book had been dedicated to the author’s daughter “still my little sweetie, in her big exam year”, which I thought was nice, but the book reads like something for teenagers. Even the horror bits are relatively tame.

The story focuses, for the most part, on a family of four – mother (Kelly), father (Huw), 10 year old son (Jude), and 14 year old deaf daughter (Ally) who are escaping flying critters – ten inch long blind flying things with big mouths and teeth like a Piranhas which are guided by sound (echolocation).

The viewpoint of The Silence switches back and forth between first and third person: third person for Huw who, frankly, is a bit of a numpty!, and the other viewpoint is first person Ally who seems more worried about her iPad status and social networking—Twitter, Facebook—than anything else. I get that she wanted to keep up to date with current ‘apocalyptic events’ but, I mean, come on Mr Lebbon, her first reference to the iPad is on the fourth page of the story and after mentioning it ad nauseam throughout the entire novel she finally, for the last time, mentions it in the penultimate paragraph of the very last page, page 363. I am not the first to mention this aggravating point. And, of course, everyone is using sign language at each other which is a fair idea but, again, leads to repetition.

For me, switching regularly between the two viewpoints did not work, but what really spoiled the book for me was not just the constant repetition, but the implausibility (even for a scifi). If Ally (who thinks that if the battery dies or if she has no electricity connection, that she loses everything in the iPads memory!), and even Huw, aren’t banging on about the flipping iPad, cars are crashing all over the place (apparently, no one in this story can drive under pressure!), or there are fires breaking out all over the place for some unexplained reason. The critters are not carrying matches or petrol bombs or breathing fire like dragons. And don’t even get me started on the rest of it…

This is a harsh review, I know, but I wish I had known about it all before I parted with my money. This is the second ‘original’ story/book of the author (the other was Relics) that I have given away. If Mr Lebbon writes the movie-tie in for Alien ‘Prometheus’ then I shall buy it, otherwise I am done.

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Liz53

Wonderful

Reviewed in Canada on April 5, 2023

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I'd not read any of Tim Lebbon's books until 'The Silence', but will definitely be checking out more as 'The Silence' is so good. The suspense grabs you from page one and the story line is well paced. I hope there will be a sequel to tie up loose ends. Highly recommend to anyone who likes dystopian/apocalypse novels.

Martin Belcher

Compulsive, riveting, chilling and horrifying. A MUST read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2015

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Wow, what an amazing, scary, nail biting read of a horror chiller!
I'm so glad I found this book by accident while browsing on the internet, I was hooked by the description and bought a copy straight away. Silence is a truly gripping horror story which holds your attention from page one and never let's you go until the last page. Deep below Eastern Europe is a monumentally large deep cavern system which has been sealed and hidden from mankind for thousands if not millions of years, inside a creature has evolved, one that can fly and is blind but uses sound as an echolocation device similar to bats to find it's prey and eat.

Live on the Discovery channel a group of cavers and explorers unwittingly open this strange world and let loose the creatures which will become known to us as Vesps, they quickly attack any and every living creature, tearing and devouring to death anything that makes a sound, they lay their eggs in their kills and they quickly hatch to spawn hordes of new Vesps. Nothing seems to kill them.

The deadly swarm spreads quickly across Europe while Ally and her Family in the UK witness first hand reports of the devastation on the internet and the TV, society, law & order starts to crumble. What should they do? Can the Vesps reach Britain and should they leave their home in Wales and travel north to their old family home deep in sparsely populated highlands of Scotland? I read this book voraciously, it is compulsive stuff and keeps you hooked page after nervous page, chilling and horrifying. For lovers of zombie and apocalyptic fiction, Silence is a MUST read! A highly recommended five stars.

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Rodney Francis

Cliché and predictable

Reviewed in Canada on January 28, 2019

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Came here after reading Bird Box, which was by far a much better read. It was difficult to remain engaged in this book because of the tropes and clichés the author kept using and reusing. Everything was completely predictable and every character did exactly what you would expect. "Hamfisted" would be an accurate term to describe the narrative. The father, Huw, is an annoying character, though this is mostly due to the author circling the same three main themes in his narrative. The father is either:
1) Thinking about his family and he'll do anything to protect them
2) Wondering if this is the last time he'll ever see <person/place/thing> again
3) Thinking "I don't care about them. everything I care about is in this room".
The issue is that the author just slaps this in your face everytime the father's perspective is being told, like a wet noodle right across the lips. This blunt, in-your-face foreshadowing and repetitive commentary breaks the immersion and leaves with little question as to what will come next.

I'd pass on this one. There are far too many other good horror stories out there to spend much time on this mass-produced piece.

Pros:
- Reasonable treatment of the monsters - some suspension of belief required, but nothing out of the ordinary for a "supernatural other" type of book.
- Unique premise - deaf girl, sign language helps family.

Cons:
- the author writes something about "<insert name> couldn't help but feel like this would be the last time that he/she would <insert activity/see person/see thing/etc>.
- Huw, the father, consistently stating "everything he could ever care about was in this room" over and over again.

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