Starve Acre (2019): How to Farm a Field of Horrors
How Andrew Michael Hurley’s compulsive folk horror novel casts its bleak and atmospheric spell
Somewhen in the 1970s, Richard and Juliette Willoughby moved to the Yorkshire countryside seeking a land of greenery and pleasantries in which to raise Ewan, their young son. Instead, Ewan dies and the land inherited by his grieving parents yields nothing but ghosts. The dour farmhouse and adjoining field – a mysteriously …