[4] He was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Open Book programme "British Gothic" in October 2015.
[6][7] It is set in the area of Morecambe Bay in north west England, described in the text as "that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune".
[4] Hurley has said that the novel's two starting points were "to write a kind of dark version of the Nativity [...] and exploring ideas of faith and belief" and "various wild, lonely places on the north west coast of Lancashire [...] a sense of imminent menace or dormant power lying just under the sand and the water".
[10] His second novel, Devil's Day, was published on 19 October 2017 by John Murray [11] and Tartarus Press[12] Its setting, "The Endlands", is based on Langden valley in Lancashire's Forest of Bowland.
[17] The Guardian's critic described it as "an atmospheric tale in the same tradition of English folk-horror" as his previous two books.