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He seems to have it all: a lovely wife, a happy child, and a delightful little cottage he has inherited, nestled deep in the Welsh hills. But with the good comes the evil. For he must care for his brutally slain uncle\'s fiendish cormorant and must fight an evil spawned from hell itself. Martin\'s. \'[An] artful first novel, reminiscent of the tales of Poe . . .
Gregory uses a low-key style and subtle lyricism to build an atmosphere of nightmarish horror in a tale that could become a classic.\' - Publishers Weekly \'[A] first-class terror story with a relentless focus that would have made Edgar Allan Poe proud.\' - New York Times \'[N]o summary can do justice to the subtlety of
Gregory\'s first novel, with its fresh, vivid, sensual prose and its superb descriptive and evocative power. An extraordinary novel - original, compelling, brilliant.\' - Library Journal \'A work of tremendous self-assurance that leaves the reader with a lingering sense of unease and announces the arrival of a considerable new talent.\' - British Book News A young family receives a welcome surprise when old Uncle Ian dies and leaves them a cottage in north Wales. For Ian\'s nephew and his wife Ann, it seems a stroke of incredible good fortune, enabling them to leave their unfulfilling lives in the city for a newfound freedom in the remote seaside cottage. There\'s just one catch. Uncle Ian\'s will has a strange condition: the couple must care for his pet cormorant or forfeit the bequest. They think nothing of it at first: Uncle Ian was eccentric, and the bird is amusing in a way. But when the cormorant begins to show a violent and malevolent side, they soon find that Uncle Ian\'s gift may not be a blessing, but a curse.
Stephen Gregory\'s first novel, The
Cormorant (1986), received widespread critical acclaim, winning the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award and earning comparisons to the works of Poe. This edition includes a new introduction by the author, in which he reveals how this enduring and haunting tale had its origins in his own experiences during a bleak Welsh winter.