Andrew Michael Hurley writes English Gothic fiction in which isolated landscapes, folk belief and family tension create uncertainty about what is supernatural and what is human. The Loney follows two brothers and their devout Catholic family on a pilgrimage to a bleak stretch of Lancashire coast, where religious expectation and local rituals become increasingly unsettling. Devil's Day moves to a remote farming valley where old customs surround the annual return of sheep from the moors, while Starve Acre centres on grieving parents and disturbing events around their Yorkshire home. Hurley's novels are slow, atmospheric and ambiguous rather than action-led. They fit folk horror, rural Gothic and psychologically uneasy British literary fiction. Read more Less