Plague of Gulls

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.'A one-of-a-kind horror writer to read and re-read.' - Paul Tremblay'Gregory's voice and vision are wholly original.' - Ramsey Campbell'A first class terror story with a relentless focus that would have made Edgar Allan Poe proud.' - The New York Times (on The Cormorant)

About the Author

Stephen Gregory has been called a horror writer, although his seven novels reflect a love of the English and Welsh countryside and especially his interest in birds. The Cormorant, which won the Somerset Maughan Awards in 1985 and was made into a BBC television film, was followed by The Woodwitch and The Blood of Angels, all written in and around the mountains of Snowdonia. After a year as a screenwriter in Hollywood alongside the notorious filmdirector William Friedkin, Stephen spent 15 years teaching in Borneo, but spent more of the long, hot tropical evenings writing four more novels, set back home in rural England and Wales… and using a bird here and there as a focus of each story. Stephen Gregory now lives in France. He and his wife Chris share a small house beside the river Vienne with their dog Poppy and cats Gudrun and Smokey, while they are slowly rebuilding a 16th century fortified-farmhouse.

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