Stephen Gregory has been called a horror writer, although his novels and short stories reflect a love of the countryside and especially his interest in birds.

The Cormorant, which won the Somerset Maugham Award 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 film director William Friedkin, Stephen spent fifteen years teaching English in Borneo. During the long hot tropical evenings he wrote four more novels, set back home in England and Wales ... and using a bird here and there as a focus of each story.

He now lives in France with his wife Chris, where they're slowly rebuilding an 18th century fortified farmhouse.

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by Stephen Gregory

The Cormorant | 1986

The Woodwitch | 1988

The Blood of Angels | 1994

The Perils and Dangers of this Night | 2008

The Waking that Kills | 2013

Wakening the Crow | 2014

Plague of Gulls | 2018

On Dark Wings (anthology of stories) | 2019