Folk Horror

Folk horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that uses elements of folklore to invoke fear and foreboding. Typical elements include a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition, folk religion, paganism, sacrifice and the dark aspects of nature. Folk horror usually focuses on the beliefs and actions of people rather than the supernatural, and often deals with naïve outsiders coming up against these.

Starve Acre
Harvest Home
The Ritual
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
The Twisted Ones
The Reddening
The Loney
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
Cunning Folk
Withered Hill
Ghost Wall
Devil's Day
Wylding Hall
Pine
The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror
John the Balladeer by Manly Wade WellmanWisconsin Death Trip by Michael LesyThe Fool Killer by Helen EustisGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.Shades of Murder by Charlie Hudson
North American Otherly Pastoral
28 books — 4 voters
Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn KrauseTogether We Rot by Skyla ArndtStarlings by Amanda LinsmeierDelicious Monsters by Liselle SamburySmall Favors by Erin A. Craig
YA Folk Horror
36 books — 8 voters

The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur MachenStag Boy by William RaynerThe Old Weird Albion by Justin HopperGhostland by Edward ParnellEngland on Fire by Stephen Ellcock
Psychick Albion
75 books — 5 voters

Night Life by Alba V. SarriaMy Lord by L.B. ShimairaThe Binding of Bloom Mountain by Vesper DoomThe Bayou by Arden PowellAmerican Survivor by Debbie Hightower
Chartreuse Horror
22 books — 6 voters
Harrow County, Vol. 1 by Cullen BunnOtoñal by Daniel KrausThrough the Woods by E.M. CarrollHellboy, Vol. 1 by Mike MignolaWytches, Volume 1 by Scott Snyder
Folk horror comics
20 books — 3 voters

Arthur Conan Doyle
Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Jaime Allison Parker
It was odd, how everyone spoke of it, as though it were one single event. The time when the county had turned upside down and all rules of logic were discarded out of the windows of reason. It had all began when Tony Anderson was taken to the hospital for drunkenly shooting up his house. That one single night, seemed to unleash something rather otherworldly on the community. It was then that the autumn harvests began to mysteriously die and wither. It was then that hushed rumors began about defo ...more
Jaime Allison Parker, River at the World's Dawn

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