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 Twisted Ones
The Ritual
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
The Reddening
The Only Good Indians
The Loney
Cunning Folk
Ghost Wall
Pine
Wylding Hall
Devil's Day
Withered Hill
The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror
Through the Woods by E.M. CarrollAnnabel Lee by Edgar Allan PoeWilliam Wilson by Edgar Allan PoeThe Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra KhawA Descent into the Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe
required reading for DEADWOOD
29 books — 2 voters
The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England; a study in his... by Wilfrid BonserThe folklore of East Anglia; by Enid PorterEnglish Fairy Tales by Joseph JacobsPeterborough Folklore by Francis YoungSuffolk Fairylore by Francis Young
Folklore and Folk Customs of England
110 books — 6 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

Ari Aster
But do you feel HELD by him, Dani? Does he feel like a HOME to you?
Ari Aster, Midsommar

P.L. McMillan
We were left alone to starve. It was through our Mother Superior's sacrifice and the grace of our God that we survived that first winter, that we continue to survive. By what entitlement do these priests feel to come here and command us? ...more
P.L. McMillan, Sisters of the Crimson Vine

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