I am very happy to announce that the special issue I edited for Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, Issue 5 (March 2020) is now available.

Here’s the Table of Contents. You’ll also find reviews of related books.

Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University, Introduction: Defining Folk Horror

James Thurgill, The University of Tokyo, A Fear of the Folk: On topophobia and the Horror of Rural Landscapes

Diane A. Rodgers, Sheffield Hallam University, Folk Horror, Ostension and Robin Redbreast

Cary Edwards, Boston College, UK, Identity and Folk Horror in Julian Richards’ Darklands

David Sweeney, The Glasgow School of Art, ‘A lost, hazy disquiet’: Scarfolk, Hookland, and the ‘Haunted Generation’

Beth Kattelman, The Ohio State University, Folk Horror in the Ozarks: The Genre Hybridity of Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone 

Peter Turner, Oxford Brookes University, Supernatural Folklore in the Blair Witch Films: New Project, New Proof 

Brendan C. Walsh, University of Queensland, Colonising the Devil’s Territories: The Historicity of Providential New England Folklore in The VVitch

Alexandra Hauke, University of Passau, Dreaming of Leviathan: John Langan’s The Fisherman and American Folk Horror

D. K. Picariello, Campus Visit (fiction)

Interview with Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual (2011)

Dorka Tamás, Conference Report, ‘Folk Horror in the 21st Century’, Falmouth University, 4-5 September 2019