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
Harvest Home by Thomas TryonCollected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesThe Willows by Algernon BlackwoodThe White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur MachenWylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
Folk Horror
378 books — 167 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
116 books — 7 voters

Randalls Round by Eleanor ScottThe Alabaster Hand by A.N.L. MunbyNine Ghosts by R.H. MaldenThe Night Comes on by Steve DuffyCollected Ghost Stories by M.R. James
Jamesian Horror
104 books — 7 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
60 books — 24 voters

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

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

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