When their son, Ewan, tragically dies, Richard and Juliette Willoughby fall into desperate grief and cannot let him go. While Richard digs into the dirt of their field in an attempt to connect to Ewan, Juliette brings a team of mystics into the house to attempt to contact the child's spirit. Their bucolic farm becomes dark, menacing and eerie as an evil folklore bogeyman dominates their daily lives. Andrew Michael Hurley's Starve Acre (2023) is a gothic and atmospheric horror story written in haunting and suspenseful prose right up until the chilling ending.
Be on the lookout for soon to be major motion picture starring Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith.