Reviews
Praise for Looking Glass Sound
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A Best Book of 2023 (Vulture) • A Best Horror Book of All Time (Cosmopolitan) • A Best Horror Book of 2023 (Esquire) •
“Here’s your next obsession.”
—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love
“This book will truly haunt you long after you read it.”
—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
“You’ve read nothing like it before…. Impossibly compelling, brilliantly plotted, and incredibly moving all at once. I think at this point we can all just agree to follow Ward wherever she takes us.”
—Virginia Feito, author of Victorian Psycho
“An irresistible, beautifully written story powered by dread and fascination with the unknown.”
—A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
“Devastatingly beautiful, bone-chilling and enchanting.”
—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark
“Ward’s latest may be her scariest yet.”
—Booklist, STARRED review
“The prose is lyrically metaphorical, taking readers into the story as if they’re shadows of the characters. This is a book about a book, inside a book—an intricate plot with changing perspectives.”
—Library Journal, STARRED review
“In the right hands, narrative can be a kaleidoscope, fracturing into more and more wondrous configurations. I think maybe Catriona Ward spilled a little blood into her kaleidoscope with this one.”
—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
“A tale to savor.”
—Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium
“Slyly addictive. Unconventional, imaginative, and brazenly twisted.”
—Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of No Gods for Drowning
“Haunting and immersive.”
—Chuck Tingle, bestselling author of Bury Your Gays
“An origami puzzle of a book with edges sharp as a paper cut.”
—Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls
“Ward dazzles with her ability to deliver satisfying narrative surprises at nearly every turn.”
—Publishers Weekly
“With prose of poetic clarity, Looking Glass Sound reveals secret after secret in a structure as intricate and insidiously enmeshing as a cobweb. Haunting, disturbing and beautiful, it’s a truly extraordinary book. I think it may well be a masterpiece.”
—Ramsey Campbell
“Ward is an inspired spider and Looking Glass Sound is her most masterful web yet. And we, dear readers, are nothing more than mere flies happily trapped within the pages of this brilliantly intricate novel.”
—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
“Enthralling and heartbreaking.”
—M. R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts
