To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Piers Haggard’s The Blood on Satan’s Claw, we published a special issue of Horror Homeroom, with ten original essays.

Mine is called “The Ruined Church in The Blood on Satan’s Claw: Fertility and Population Decline in Folk Horror” and takes up one of the main locations of the film, the ruined church of Bix Brand.

Some photographs I took of the church when I visited in 2016

And here’s the beautiful cover created for the special issue by Andrew Foley: