Owen Egerton: Owen Egerton. Writer: Blood Fest. Award winning filmmaker and novelist Owen Egerton is the writer/director of Mercy Black, Follow and Blood Fest. He's also the author of the story collection How Best to Avoid Dying and the novels Everyone Says That at the End of the World and The Book of Harold, the Illegitimate Son of God. His most recent novel, Hollow, was named one of the Best Books of...