Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley review – an atmospheric tale

Occultists are asked to contact a dead child in this chilling novel redolent of 70s folk-horror

Andrew Michael Hurley has been carving out a niche for himself as a notable writer of modern gothic since the success of his Costa-winning debut, The Loney, and his third novel, Starve Acre, offers an atmospheric tale in the same tradition of English folk-horror.

Hurley has a fine talent for evoking the menace of his northern landscapes

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