Stephen Gregory

Stephen Gregory was a Welsh author of horror fiction, born in Derby in 1952. His two books, The Woodwitch and The Cormorant, are gothic and psychological horror, the first following a clerk whose life unravels after a violent outburst. He had also read law at the University of London, taught in Bangor, Algiers and Sudan, and worked as a script writer with William Friedkin at Paramount Pictures. His publisher announced his death in January 2024.