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JOHN TOGHER

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John Togher is a Wigan-based writer whose fiction blends folk horror, coastal mystery and psychological unease as explored in debut novella, Bound by the Salt, set in the strange village of Cairnshore. John’s writing explores obsession, memory, and the strange pull of places we thought we had escaped.

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Why I wrote Bond by the Salt

Bound by the Salt: A Folk Horror Novella

I think the first seed of Bound by the Salt came from a conversation with a friend.

We were talking about home towns. It wasn't a warm, “remember when?” sort of chat. More a sense of how strange they can feel once you have left them. How you can move away, build a life somewhere else, become a different version of yourself, and yet some part of that place sti Read more of this blog post »
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Published on June 12, 2026 02:06 • Tags: folk-horror

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152522 Folk Horror Revival — 714 members — last activity Aug 03, 2026 09:11AM
A gathering place to share and discuss Folk Horror in fiction and non-fiction and also the related fields of psychogeography, hauntology, folklore, cu ...more
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