Book Club 01 - Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley (with Ray Newman)
About this episode
The episode features a discussion on Andrew Michael Hurley's novel 'Starve Acre' with guest Ray Newman.
Welcome to the very first episode of the General Witchfinders Book Club – a new spin-off from our regular British horror podcast, run in partnership with Teasel & Skylark , an independent bookshop in Dorchester. To accompany our real-life, face-to-face book club meet-ups, host Ross Cleaver invites a special guest co-host onto the show every two months to discuss our latest reading choice. On this inaugural episode, Ross welcomes author Ray Newman. Ray is the author of the novel The Grave Digger’s Boy , as well as three exceptional collections of short stories: Municipal Gothic , Intervals of Darkness , and Thin Places in Hard Concrete . Together, they delve into Andrew Michael Hurley’s acclaimed 2019 novel, Starve Acre . Starve Acre ‘An impeccable work of folk horror’ – The Irish Times The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Convinced that the boy still lives on in some form, and desperate to make contact, Juliette seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, an art historian, tries to blot out the pain of his grief by turning his attention to the field…
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