Devil's Day: A Folk Horror Tale Exploring the Haunting Legacy of a Rural Village - Hardcover

Hurley, Andrew Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1328489884 ISBN 13: 9781328489883

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

A new novel by the author of The Loney, which was praised by Stephen King as "an amazing piece of fiction."

In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea,

The Devil he jumped from me to thee.

And only when the Devil had gone,

Did I know that he and I'd been one . . .

Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather—the Gaffer—has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time.

Each year, the Gaffer would redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paper but also through the remembrance of tales and timeless communal rituals, which keep the sheep safe from the Devil. But as the farmers of the Endlands bury the Gaffer and prepare to gather the sheep, they begin to wonder whether they've let the Devil in after all.

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ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY lives in Lancashire, where he teaches English literature and creative writing. He has published two short story collections. His first novel, The Loney, won the Costa First Book Award, was short-listed for the James Herbert Award, and was published in twenty territories.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1328489884
• ISBN 13: 9781328489883
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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