The Loney [antikvár]

ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY has hved in Manchester and London and is now based in his native Lancashire. Starting his literary life as a short-story writer, Hurley published two collections - Cages and The Unusual Death of Julie Christie - before writing The Loney, his first novel. 'I read The Loney in one sleepless night last Christmas, when the independent Tartarus Press issued it in a small run, and it has haunted me ever since. Few debut novels arrive so fully formed, with such an assured command of tone. Even fewer are as spooky as The Loney an extraordinarily haunted and haunting novel, arrestingly in command of its unique spot in the landscape. No one who missed it the first time has much of an excuse now' Daily Telegraph 'A masterfiil excursion into terror. Hurley (whose remarkable talent has previously been 'Enigmatic and distmcdy confined to short stories) fills the This is a novel of larger space this debut novel implied, the barely gives him with a slow, inexorable »«derstood, build-up of menace' «»ark holes and blurry Sunday Times spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill' Observer 'A briUiantly unsettUng debut As things go awry, Hurley ratchets up the tension as faith and folklore prove equally menacing' Psychologies 'Here is the masterpiece by which Hurley must enter the Guild of the Gothic: it pleases me to think of his name written on some parchment scroll, alongside those of Walpole, Du Maurier, Maturin and Jackson' Guardian