Stephen Gregory has been called a horror writer,although his novels and short stories reflect a love ofthe countryside and especially his interest in birds.The Cormorant, which won the Somerset MaughamAward and was made into a BBC television film, waswritten in and around the mountains of Snowdonia.After a year as a screenwriter in Hollywood, Stephenspent fifteen years teaching in Borneo, and during the long, hot tropicalevenings he wrote four more novels, set back home in rural Englandand Wales. He now lives in France with his wife Chris, in a small housebeside the river Vienne, while they're slowly rebuilding a 16th-centuryfortified farmhouse.

"A first-class terror story with a relentless focus that would have made Edgar Allan Poe proud." New York Times

Stephen Gregory has been called a horror writer,although his novels and short stories reflect a love ofthe countryside and especially his interest in birds.The Cormorant, which won the Somerset MaughamAward and was made into a BBC television film, waswritten in and around the mountains of Snowdonia.After a year as a screenwriter in Hollywood, Stephenspent fifteen years teaching in Borneo, and during the long, hot tropicalevenings he wrote four more novels, set back home in rural Englandand Wales. He now lives in France with his wife Chris, in a small housebeside the river Vienne, while they're slowly rebuilding a 16th-centuryfortified farmhouse.

"A first-class terror story with a relentless focus that would have made Edgar Allan Poe proud." New York Times

Stephen Gregory has been called a horror writer,although his novels and short stories reflect a love ofthe countryside and especially his interest in birds.The Cormorant, which won the Somerset MaughamAward and was made into a BBC television film, waswritten in and around the mountains of Snowdonia.After a year as a screenwriter in Hollywood, Stephenspent fifteen years teaching in Borneo, and during the long, hot tropicalevenings he wrote four more novels, set back home in rural Englandand Wales. He now lives in France with his wife Chris, in a small housebeside the river Vienne, while they're slowly rebuilding a 16th-centuryfortified farmhouse.

"A first-class terror story with a relentless focus that would have made Edgar Allan Poe proud." New York Times