Barrowbeck

Barrowbeck is a remote valley on the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire, where the villagers have shared the land for centuries with forces they cannot explain. They farm, raise their children and take in outsiders who arrive looking for rest. But something dark runs through the place as steadily as the river does. The book moves through the lives of the valley's people across generations. A father fears that his daughter has been possessed by something unholy. A childless couple faces a painful decision. A widower waits for his wife to come back. A troubled man is haunted by visions of the end of the world. As each generation gives way to the next and the old land is divided up in the name of progress, the darkness gathers strength. The villagers have forgotten that they are only guests here, and a price is now due as two thousand years of history draw to a close. Andrew Michael Hurley is also the author of The Loney and Starve Acre. Barrowbeck is a work of folk horror.