Modern gothic horror marks an assured debut

The subject of religion lends itself well to gothic fiction, especially when it’s the puritanical type of Catholicism examined by Andrew Michael Hurley in his debut novel The Loney. Set in the spooky wilderness of northern England, the book is centred around an Easter pilgrimage to an island known as the Loney, “a wild and useless length of English coastline. A dead mouth of a bay that filled ...