The Gull Rock Observatory
A Folk Horror Novel

About this book:

On a windswept rock fifty miles off the Scottish coast, two estranged ornithologists arrive to count puffins. Alasdair Finch and Dr. Helen Carter haven't spoken in four years—not since their professional rivalry curdled into something deeply personal. But Gull Rock doesn't care about their history. The island has its own ledger, written in guano and guile, in the whisper of the cliffs and the things the tide refuses to take.

The birds are wrong. Their burrows yield feathers wrapped around human teeth. Their cries mimic voices lost to the Atlantic. And when the first eclipse darkens the sky, the old ferryman's warnings curdle into prophecy: the island keeps its covenants, and the count has already begun.

Atmospheric, visceral, and steeped in the cold mythology of the Hebrides, *The Gull Rock Observatory* is folk horror at its most unforgiving—where science offers no shield against the old hungers, and the sea always collects its due.