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NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 BRAM STOKER AWARDSSecret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant...Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world of pagan village conspiracies, witch finders, and teenagers awakening to evil; of dark fairy tales, backwoods cults and obsolete technologies. Beginning with the classics Night of the Demon, Witchfinder General,…
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People often ask me why folk horror has returned with such a vengeance in the 21st century.
I tried to address this resurgence in my book, but one of the strongest foundations for making such conjectures appears in Howard David Ingham’s extensive, wide ranging survey of the folk horror film genre We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror and Pagan Film.
Both informative and critically engaging, this book is my favorite book on the subject in a field that has vastly expanded over the last five years. Ingham’s vision encompasses not only the canonical British folk…
From William's list on The best books on hauntology, folk horror, and all things wyrd and eerie.
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