The Blood of Angels

By Stephen Gregory

Book Overview

After a bruising experience as a teacher in Africa, Harry Clewe has come to the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales for some peace and quiet. One day, he stops to pick up an attractive blonde hitchhiker . . . and his life will never be the same again.

A desperate and wild obsession ends in a tragedy that condemns Harry to a solitary existence, a loneliness that bears its own depraved and bitter fruit. In the years that follow, his life is changed by a bizarre and ultimately dangerous succession of women. Driven on from crisis to crisis, from one catastrophe to the next, he knows joy, terror, despair . . . and finally, the horror of his own worst impulses.

From the award-winning author of The Cormorant and The Woodwitch comes this disturbing and macabre story of one man's encounter with the savagery of human instincts and the cruelty of fate.

'The Blood of Angels is a compelling, beautifully written, lusty storm of a book that will sweep you up from its first page and take you on a breathless, emotional, invigorating journey.' - Mark Morris, from the Introduction

'Stephen Gregory lures you into his feverish tales of madness and nightmare with lush, precise prose, inexorably building a sense of wonder, awe, and bone-deep dread. He's a one-of-a-kind horror writer to read and re-read.' - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts

'The Blood of Angels is a bizarre nightmare. Stephen Gregory slowly takes the reader into the depths of strange, insidious happenings and blinding personal phantoms to reveal what lies beneath. Twisted, bitter, uncomfortable in its own skin, The Blood of Angels investigates the damaging repercussions of a childhood encounter as echoes through a deteriorating life. This is a book that seeps into you and leaves an indelible mark. It's affecting, as all great literature should be.' - Simon Strantzas, author of Burnt Black Suns

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943910057
• ISBN13: 9781943910052
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Valancourt Books
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Just When I Thought This Book Couldn't Get Any Crazier......

Everyday, while reading this book, I would say to my husband, "Well, just when I thought this book couldn't get any crazier...it just got crazier!!!!!!!!" And that's the truth. And I was hooked. I've never read anything like this and would struggle to recommend such a demented, gruesome, and horrifying book to just anybody. If you can handle that type of subject matter plus maximum weirdness, this is a book for you. I love Stephen Gregory and any strange story he comes up with. My mom and I are working our way through all of his books..and this one - by far - was the most bizarre. Give it a try - if you dare.