Lowney: a novel. Hurley E.M.

An atmospheric, chillingly eerie, mystical novel by an English writer. The book, which instantly became a bestseller, was rightly hailed as a "living classic of Gothic fiction" and received the approval of Stephen King himself.Lowney is a strange, desolate place on the coast of England. Embarking on a pilgrimage to a local shrine with his family, a fifteen-year-old boy has no idea what he is about to encounter in this grim, dismal land. Terrifying effigies, gruesome rituals, the peculiar behavior of the locals, who are hiding a terrible secret, a sudden landslide, and the discovery of an infant's body that fell from an old house at the foot of the cliffs...