Starve Acre: 'Beautifully written and triumphantly creepy' Mail on Sunday

Startlingly and daringly original, a story that shivers itself deeply into the consciousness - David Park, author of the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Travelling in a Strange LandA deeply unsettling tale, superbly told - BooksellerA brilliant interweaving of psychological realism, folklore, and the haunting presence of the supernatural. I would put it in the company of some of M. R. James's fiction, Daphne du Maurier's 'Don't Look Now', Piers Haggard's The Blood on Satan's Claw, and Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby . . . in his ability to render the liminal space between the psychological and supernatural, Hurley most closely resembles Shirley Jackson . . . Andrew Michael Hurley is writing the very best folk horror fiction out there. In that, he has no rival. Indeed, he's writing some of the best fiction period. His novels cannot be easily categorized. They are always luminous representations of human nature, in all its frailty, spliced together with the disconcerting power of the natural world and the myths and rituals by which we attempt to reconcile ourselves to that power. In the interstices of these things-human emotion, nature, ritual-Hurley offers glimpses of what we could call the supernatural - Horror Home Room