{"product_id":"9781943910052","title":"The Blood of Angels","description":"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.\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cormorant\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Woodwitch\u003c\/i\u003e comes this disturbing and macabre story of one man's encounter with the savagery of human instincts and the cruelty of fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Blood of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003eA Head Full of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Blood of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Blood of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBurnt Black Suns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064811667696,"sku":"9781943910052","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943910052_p0.jpg?v=1763792405","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943910052","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}