Lucy Foley studied English literature at Durham University and University College London and worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry. She is the author of five novels including The Paris Apartment and The Guest List. She lives in London.
Foley's newest novel is The Midnight Feast.
At CrimeReads the author tagged six favorite stories of folk horror, including:
The Changeling by Victor LaValleRead about another entry on the list.
A fascinating, shapeshifting, exquisitely written novel which is by turns enchanting and horrifying. After his wife commits an unspeakable act of violenceand vanishes, the protagonist, Apollo, is left to go on an odyssey through a folkloric otherworld of weird creatures, mysterious islands and haunted forests, all occupying the same space as the five boroughs of New York City. Witches and trolls appear alongside discussions of race, immigration, cyberstalking and parenthood in this dark fairy-tale with some mind-blowing twists and more than a touch of folk horror along the way.
The Changeling is among Brittany Bunzey's twenty-five "must-read, truly bone-chilling" horror books, Nat Cassidy's eight top unconventional coming-of-age horror novels, Benjamin Percy's top five novels about dangerous plants, James Han Mattson's five top dark and disturbing reads, A.K. Larkwood's five tense books that blend sci-fi and horror, Leah Schnelbach's ten sci-fi and fantasy must-reads from the 2010s, T. Marie Vandelly's top ten suspenseful horror novels featuring domestic terrors and C.J. Tudor's six thrillers featuring missing, mistaken, or "changed" children.
--Marshal Zeringue
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