Sign-In
Cart
Inside the Echo
Paperback
Publisher Price: $23.95
ISBN13: 9781774034378
Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing
Published: Apr 20 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.52 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Inside the Echo is a metaphysical literary novel that follows Gordie, a man whose life has been shaped by a childhood accident, a series of strokes, and a final near-drowning that pulls him into an in-between realm where memory, identity, and consciousness blur. From the moment of his first traumatic brain injury, Gordie begins slipping between two versions of himself: the boy he once was and the man he becomes. These fractures open doorways into a dreamlike field he calls the Echo, a place where time folds, the past repeats, and an unseen presence watches him with a strange, patient familiarity.
As Gordie moves through adolescence and adulthood, the Echo follows-appearing in hospital rooms, in dreams, in moments of crisis, and in the quiet spaces between breaths. After his second stroke, the boundary between the physical world and the Echo thins, revealing a cosmic intelligence that seems to know him more deeply than he knows himself. When a near-drowning pulls him fully into the in-between, Gordie encounters the one figure who has been with him since the beginning: Slim, a presence who guides him through the shifting terrain of memory, trauma, and transformation.
Inside the Echo explores the fragile architecture of the self, the persistence of childhood wounds, and the mysterious forces that accompany us through life's thresholds. Moving between realism and the surreal, the novel examines what it means to survive the moments that break us-and what waits on the other side of those breaks. At its heart, this is a story about connection: between father and son, between past and present, between the living and the almost-gone, and between the human mind and the vast, unseen field that holds every version of who we are.
Lyrical, haunting, and deeply human, Inside the Echo invites readers into a world where consciousness is porous, memory is alive, and the boundaries between life and death are not walls but doorways.
Also in
Horror
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
Japanese Gothic: A Folk Horror Novel of Japanese Mythology, Murder, and Family Duty Across Two Timelines
Baker, Kylie Lee
Hardcover
Incidents Around the House: A Novel: The Inspiration for the Movie Other Mommy
Malerman, Josh
Paperback
The Amalfi Curse: A Bewitching Tale of Sunken Treasure, Forbidden Love, and Ancient Magic on the Amalfi Coast
Penner, Sarah
Paperback
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Shelley, Mary
Paperback
THE GIRLS IN THE CABIN an absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller packed with heart-stopping twists
Stephens, Caleb
Paperback