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 ...view moreStephen 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 in Borneo, and during the long hot tropical evenings he wrote four more novels, set back home in rural 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, in a small house beside the river Vienne, while they’re slowly rebuilding a 16th century fortified farmhouse.view less