A new festival celebrating horror writing will take place in Sedbergh later this year.
Thought to be a first for Cumbria, the event, on June 21 and June 22, Horror in the Howgills features authors for what organisers promise to be spooky fun.
Among those appearing is Andrew Michael Hurley.
Beginning with his acclaimed 2018 debut novel The Loney, the English writer has spooked readers with his tales of strange rural communities and his publisher bills him as “the master of menace”.
Stephen King is a big fan, and the film version of his third novel, Starve Acre, starring Morfydd Clark from The Rings of Power and ex-Doctor Who, Matt Smith, has been shocking audiences across the US and the UK this year.
Master of ceremonies in Johnny Mains.
A British Fantasy Award-winning editor and genre researcher. He was project editor on the 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories, created the critically acclaimed series Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians (co-edited with Robin Ince) and has spent the last five years deep in the archives, uncovering ‘lost’ stories by notable authors such as Edith Nesbit, Algernon Blackwood, Oscar Cook and Daphne Du Maurier, among others.
Other authors include:
- Lucie McKnight Hardy
- Mark Morris
- Jonny Davidson
- Priya Sharma
- Samantha Lee Howe
- Ray Russell
