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On this week’s show, Sian speaks to Andrew Michael Hurley, whose first book The Loney was acclaimed by critics and buoyed by word of mouth – as well as an endorsement from Stephen King. He’s back with his second novel, Devil’s Day: a similarly spooky novel that follows a young man and his new wife as they return to his childhood home, in a damp and dreary corner of Lancashire called the Endlands.
Then Claire joins Sian in the studio, where they discuss their favourite horror novels, eerie tales and ghost stories.
Reading list
Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley (John Murray)
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson (Penguin)
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (Penguin Classics)
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (Vintage)
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin)
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Virago)
The Mist, in Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (Virago)
Fen by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
Also mentioned: Helen Oyeyemi, Angela Carter. Helen Dunmore, Michelle Paver, Algernon Blackwood.
Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
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