Folk Horror

Ruth Heholt is Associate Professor of Dark Economies and Gothic Literature at Falmouth University. Dawn Keetley is Professor of English and Film at Lehigh University.

• Introduction: Dawn Keetley and Ruth HeholtPart One: Folk Horror’s FolkloreChapter One: The Frightening Folk: An Introduction to the Folkloresque in HorrorJeffrey A. TolbertChapter Two: Whose Folk? Community, Folklore, Landscape and the Case of the Lancashire WitchesCatherine SpoonerChapter Three: Folkloric Origins of the Ukrainian GothicSvitlana (Lana) KrysChapter Four: ‘Wow, this place is spooky at night!’ Suburban Ennui, Legend Quests and What Folk Horror Shares with Scooby-DooIan BrodiePart Two: Re-Visioning Canonical Folk HorrorChapter Five: The Curse of the Cursive: The Horror of the Hand in Folk Horror Film TypographyDavid DevannyChapter Six: The Devil His Due: Folk Horror, Occulture and the Black Magic StoryTimothy JonesChapter Seven: Black Boxes: Tradition and Human Sacrifice in American Folk HorrorBernice M. MurphyPart Three: Folk Horror in New PlacesChapter Eight: Sunny Landscapes, Dark Visions: E. F. Benson’s Weird Domestic Folk HorrorRuth HeholtChapter Nine: Monsters in the Making: Phi Pop and Thai Folk HorrorKatarzyna AncutaChaper Ten: Curses, Rites and Questionable Offerings: Ludic Folk Horror in Video GamesTanya KrzywinskaPart Four: Folk Horror’s PoliticsChapter Eleven: Catholicism, Unification and Liminal Landscape in Italian Folk Horror CinemaMarco MalvestioChapter Twelve: ‘Me quitarán de quererte, Llorona, pero de olividarte nunca’: La Llorona, Colonial Trauma and MexicannessValeria Villegas LindvallChapter Thirteen: Sacrifice Zones in Appalachian Folk HorrorDawn Keetley

From Lancashire to Appalachia, from Thailand to Ukraine, from typography to Scooby-Doo, via human sacrifice. In Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, Keetley and Heholt curate a vital addition to the field of folk horror studies, which takes the form beyond its British roots and examines its global manifestations and thematic interconnections. This is essential reading.