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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The 7 books on this stack

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  • Brom 2021

    Why it's on the stack

    You read it holding your breath · folk horror

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    A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! 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 · folk horror

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    A new novel by the author of The Loney, which was praised by Stephen King as "an amazing piece of fiction."

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  • Andrew Michael Hurley 2019

    Why it's on the stack

    It stirs you up inside · folk horror

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    "An impeccable work of folk horror" -- Irish Times An atmospheric and unsettling story of the depths of grief found in an ancient farm in northern England—now a major motion picture starring Matt…

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  • Adam Nevill 2012

    Why it's on the stack

    A threat that keeps growing · folk horror

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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

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    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 · folk horror

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    A family flees the crime-ridden city--and finds something worse--in "a brilliantly imagined horror story" by the New York Times -bestselling author ( The Boston Globe ).

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