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
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
The Ritual
The Twisted Ones
The Reddening
The Loney
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
Cunning Folk
Ghost Wall
Withered Hill
Devil's Day
Wylding Hall
Pine
The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror
Night Life by Alba V. SarriaMy Lord by L.B. ShimairaAmerican Survivor by Debbie HightowerThe Bayou by Arden PowellThe Binding of Bloom Mountain by Vesper Doom
Chartreuse Horror
16 books — 5 voters
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayHere Beside the Rising Tide by Emily  JaneTuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbittA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Summer of Speculative Reading
54 books — 22 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
29 books — 7 voters
Children of the Corn by Stephen  KingThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonTurner by Karl DrinkwaterRed Shift by Alan GarnerThe Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Folk Horror And The Old Ways
33 books — 7 voters


Wouldst thou like the taste of butter? A pretty dress? Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
Robert Eggers, The Witch

Dr. Watson
I am the trees and the flowers you step on. Iam the earth you walk on, the water you drink, the animals you kill. I am the mountains and the never-ending sea. I am here and everywhere else, now and forever. I am Everything.
Dr. Watson, When the Spring Comes

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