The Art of Foreboding: Folk Horror with Lucie McKnight Hardy & Andrew Michael Hurley

Praise for Night Babies by Lucie McKnight Hardy

‘A considered, clever, creeping ghost story, with dark depths and dangerous undercurrents. Lucie McKnight Hardy is one of the best writers of the uncanny around’ ― Alison Littlewood, author of A Cold Season

‘An immersive and compulsive novel about art and ego, betrayal and consequences. Beautifully written and absolutely gripping ― Alison Moore, The Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Lighthouse

Praise for Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley

‘Wildly atmospheric and truly chilling’ — Liz Jensen, Guardian

‘This is folk horror for our moment, where the terror is not that the old gods might return, but that they have been living and working darkly within us all along’ — Financial Times

Lucie McKnight Hardy is the author of Water Shall Refuse Them, which was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award and the short story collection, Dead Relatives. Lucie grew up in West Wales and is a Welsh speaker. She has also lived in Liverpool, Cardiff, Zurich and Bradford, and now lives in Hay-on-Wye. Night Babies is her new novel.

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Andrew Michael Hurley is based in Lancashire. His first novel, The Loney, won the Costa Best First Novel Award and the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Devil’s Day, his second novel, was picked as a Book of the Year in five newspapers and won the Encore Award. Starve Acre was made into a film starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. Saltwash is his new novel.

Tom Benn is an award-winning author, screenwriter and Associate Professor from Stockport. His first novel, The Doll Princess (Cape), was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Portico Prize, and longlisted for the CWA’s John Creasey Dagger. His other novels include Chamber Music (Cape) and Trouble Man (Cape). He won runner-up prize in the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, and his essays and fiction have appeared in Granta and the Paris Review. He won the BFI’s iWrite scheme for emerging screenwriters. His first horror film, ‘Real Gods Require Blood’, premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Short Film at the BFI London Film Festival. His fourth novel, OXBLOOD (Bloomsbury), was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the CWA Gold Dagger, and won the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award.

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