Plague of Gulls (2015)
Stephen Gregory
Book Description
It’s David Kewish’s eighteenth birthday, but the day doesn’t turn out quite as he expected. After suffering a gruesome injury, he receives a strange present in the form of a baby black-backed gull. But David’s accident isn’t the only misfortune to coincide with the bird’s arrival. Soon a whole series of violent incidents, and even deaths, begins to unfold in the seaside town where he lives. And when people notice how close David is to the gull, they begin to suspect he is to blame for the tragedies ...
With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds, Plague of Gulls is the latest novel by Stephen Gregory, author of the modern classic The Cormorant and one of the finest contemporary writers of psychological horror.
Stephen Gregory
Book Description
It’s David Kewish’s eighteenth birthday, but the day doesn’t turn out quite as he expected. After suffering a gruesome injury, he receives a strange present in the form of a baby black-backed gull. But David’s accident isn’t the only misfortune to coincide with the bird’s arrival. Soon a whole series of violent incidents, and even deaths, begins to unfold in the seaside town where he lives. And when people notice how close David is to the gull, they begin to suspect he is to blame for the tragedies ...
With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds, Plague of Gulls is the latest novel by Stephen Gregory, author of the modern classic The Cormorant and one of the finest contemporary writers of psychological horror.
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ISBN: 1954321104 ISBN-13: 978-1954321106 $24.99 US, pp. Case Laminate Hardcover Published 2021 BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 1948405970 ISBN-13: 978-1948405973 $15.99 US, pp. Trade paper Published 2021 |
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Stephen Gregory (b. 1952) was born in Derby, England, and earned a degree in law from the University of London. He worked as a teacher for ten years in various places, including Wales, Algeria, and Sudan, before moving to the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales to write his first novel, The Cormorant (1986), which won Britain’s prestigious Somerset Maugham Award and drew comparisons to Poe. The book was also adapted for film as a BBC production starring Ralph Fiennes. Two more novels, both set in Wales, followed: The Woodwitch (1988) and The Blood of Angels (1994). After the publication of The Blood of Angels, he worked in Hollywood for a year with Oscar-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist). More recently, he has published The Perils and Dangers of this Night (2008), and his new novel, The Waking That Kills, will be published in late 2013.