Dark Angels/The Shadow Hunt Trailer

The haunting book trailer for Katherine Langrish’s acclaimed fantasy ‘Dark Angels’ (US title The Shadow Hunt’). www.katherinelangrish.co.uk Wolf is on the run, lost on a dark hillside said to be haunted by ghosts, demons and elves. There he meets heroic-seeming Lord Hugo, crusader and troubadour, out hunting with his men. But Hugo nurses a terrible grief — and when he and Wolf discover a mysterious, disfigured elf-child, Wolf’s feet are set on a path which will take him deep into the shadows. Katherine Langrish says “Some of the background to the making of this trailer: the story is set on and around the sinister, atmospheric Shropshire hill which I renamed ‘Devil’s Edge’, but is actually called ‘Stiperstones’. I love mountains, and the Welsh Marches contain a wonderful mix of English and Celtic history and folklore. “To research the book and make the trailer, I went to Shropshire, and tramped over Stiperstones in rain, in mist, and in sweeping wind. I visited a wolf sanctuary set in a narrow little valley — it began to snow as we descended the steep track, and I’ll never forget the snow falling precipitously past the dark serried ranks of fir trees, and the wolves howling in the winter landscape. I climbed the grassy mound which is all that’s left of the 11th century Montgomery stronghold of Hen Domen. (The castle in the trailer is the oldest tower of Stokesay Castle.) “I crawled down the tight dark passages of an abandoned Roman copper mine, which became the entrance …