My favorite subgenre: folk horror

[kestrell]

Do you own the soundtrack to "The Wicker Man"?
Are you a sucker for any story with spooky trees in it?
Do you throw around phrases such as "liminal space" and "psychogeography"?
Are you drawn to books and movies about folklore, legends, and ancient rites?

Then, like me, folk horror may be your subgenre.

I was aware of the phrase, but didn't really examine it in detail until last week, when I read _We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror_ by Howard David Ingham (included with a Kindle Unlimited subscription).

The best place to begin familiarizing yourself with the subgenre is
Folkhorrorrevival.com
which includes
"From the Forest, Fields, Furrows, and Further: An Introduction" by Andy Paciorek
https://folkhorrorrevival.com/about/from-the-forests-fields-and-furrows-an-introduction-by-andy-paciorek/
and here is the Folk Horror Revival IMDB movie list
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls062558913/

Adam Scovell has written the definitive book on folk horror, _Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange_, in which he lists the four elements of folk horror:
landscape
isolation
skewed morals, and
a summoning/happening.
you can read many of his reviews and articles here
https://celluloidwickerman.com/other-writing-work/
including Where to begin with folk horror
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/where-begin-folk-horror