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The Cormorant

A young family receives a surprise when old Uncle Ian dies and leaves them a cottage in north Wales. For Ian’s nephew and his wife Ann, it seems a stroke of incredible good fortune, enabling them to leave their life in the city for a newfound freedom in the remote seaside cottage. There’s just one catch. Uncle Ian’s will has an unusual condition: the couple must care for his pet cormorant or forfeit the bequest. The will’s provision seems harmless enough at first, but when their young son Harry develops a strange fascination for the increasingly sinister and malevolent bird, they soon find that Uncle Ian’s gift may not be a blessing, but a curse.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 148
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781565049185
  • Settings
  • Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales, Snowdonia, Wales
  • Genres
  • horror, fiction, novella, animals, dark, adult, birds, gothic
  • Release date
  • 1996