Folk horror where the old ways never stopped

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Old fields, older gods, and locals who know exactly what the season asks for. Folk horror where the outsider learns the rules too late.

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  • Brom 2021

    Why it's on the stack

    You read it holding your breath · horror in the countryside, with old rites

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.

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  • Andrew Michael Hurley 2017

    Why it's on the stack

    It stirs you up inside · horror in the countryside, with old rites

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, The Devil he jumped from me to thee.

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  • Andrew Michael Hurley 2014

    Why it's on the stack

    You read it holding your breath · horror in the countryside, with old rites

    It shares this with 5 more books on this stack

    300 pages ; 21 cm

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  • Andrew Michael Hurley 2019

    Why it's on the stack

    It stirs you up inside · horror in the countryside, with old rites

    It shares this with 4 more books on this stack

    The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five.

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  • Adam Nevill 2012

    Why it's on the stack

    A threat that keeps growing · horror in the countryside, with old rites

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    Now a Netflix Original Movie! The Ritual is Adam Nevill's horror novel depicting a group of friends lost in a remote wilderness in Sweden where something supernatural lurks.

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  • Robin Hardy 2000

    Why it's on the stack

    It'll scare you · you need to know how it ends

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    First published in 1978, five years after the release of the classic horror film from which it is adapted, The Wicker Man by director Robin Hardy and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, is a gripping…

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  • Thomas Tryon 2018

    Why it's on the stack

    Unsettling from the first page · horror in the countryside, with old rites

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    After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land.

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