
Schrader's Chord
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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George Newbern
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By:
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Scott Leeds
Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord, Scott Leeds's chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead.
I told you they were real.
After his estranged father’s mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral. There, he discovers his father left him two parting gifts: the keys to the family record store and a strange black case containing four ancient records that, according to legend, can open a gate to the land of the dead.
When Charlie, his sister, and their two friends play the records, they unwittingly open a floodgate of unspeakable horror. As the darkness descends, they are stalked by a relentless, malevolent force and see the dead everywhere they turn.
With time running out, the only person who can help them is Charlie’s resurrected father, who knows firsthand the awesome power the records have unleashed. But can they close the gate and silence Schrader’s Chord before it’s too late?
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Quirky, humorous, engaging (albeit not-quite-horror) read
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Other issues — characters from multiple generations share exactly the same cultural touch points, which is weird. Anna swings between a semi-realized character and the sort of woman the author appears to want to date. There’s some ham-handed attempts at inclusion that go nowhere (but the author tried), and a lot of writing that feels like the author is hoping for a movie deal but comes off as a bigger-budget episode of Supernatural.
All in all, not terrible, maybe promising, but it really needed to decide if it was going to be horror or fantasy and didn’t really hit either. I feel bad about being so negative, but it was a bit of a slog to finish. I won’t rule out later efforts.
The reader was fine. I didn’t love his voice, but he delivered a solid reading with slight tone shifts for voices (although his “Yorkshire” accent was… well) and didn’t over- or under-dramatize.
TL;DR: it was fine.
Not a Horror Novel
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Different and good
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Can't wait for more from this author!
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Uniquely entertaining!
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The best story I've heard in a while.
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And the protagonist, despite multiple efforts by the author to develop positive traits, kind of comes off as selfish and whiny. By the end, I was just ready for it to be over. Interesting and fitting ending though. The narration exacerbated the whining nature of the main character for me but certainly wasn’t bad.
Cool story but no one to really get behind in this one.
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Excellent Spooky Tale
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Thoroughly Enjoyable
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extremely detailed
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