Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley: You won’t like to be beside this seaside
Low-stakes entertainment populated by broken-spirited creatures evokes eerie hollowness in desolate seaside town
Andrew Michael Hurley
Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley: Stories with an ominous quality, like a knock at the door on a dark evening
This folk-horror collection spans 2,000 years, following the residents of Barrowbeck, each generation shrugging off the strange events that visit the village
Andrew Michael Hurley: ‘I’m a very lapsed Catholic ... but I think horror and supernatural stories fill that gap’
The author on his quick success with his debut novel The Loney and his new book Barrowbeck
Starve Acre: Daniel Kokotajlo on making one of the best horror films of 2024
Seven years on from his debut film The Apostasy, over which he still receives hate mail, the director follows up with an adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s much admired novel
Starve Acre: brilliantly written work of folk horror
Andrew Michael Hurley sketches grief, belief and the supernatural around a child’s death
Andrew Michael Hurley: ‘There’s nothing more terrifying to me than nationalism’
Northern Gothic, folk horror novels explore remote, insular, haunted communities – the kind that might vote for Brexit
Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley review: the importance of folklore proves the strongest refrain
‘Devil’s Day’ is an assured follow-up to ‘The Loney’ that considers the themes of exile, mythology and rural traditions
Elmet review: There will be blood on the Booker longlist
A marginalised Yorkshire family battle their community in a well-written but flawed debut from Fiona Mozley
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley review: We still fear the old way
Originally marketed as a straight horror novel, ‘The Loney’ has a sense of unease that is at once subtle and brilliantly evocative, writes Eoin McNamee
Dark waters: Andrew Hurley on faith and death in The Loney
Inspired by Robert Macfarlane's nature writing and gothic yarns set along the wild Lancashire coast, the Costa First Novel Award winner pitches modern pilgrims into a desolate landscape
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