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
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
The Ritual
The Twisted Ones
The Reddening
Withered Hill
The Loney
Cunning Folk
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
Ghost Wall
Wylding Hall
Devil's Day
Pine
The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
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
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Children of the Corn by Stephen  KingThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonTurner by Karl DrinkwaterRed Shift by Alan GarnerThe Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Folk Horror And The Old Ways
40 books — 9 voters

Harvest Home by Thomas TryonCollected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesThe Willows by Algernon BlackwoodThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen
Folk Horror
382 books — 173 voters
Harrow County, Vol. 1 by Cullen BunnOtoñal by Daniel KrausThrough the Woods by E.M. CarrollWytches, Volume 1 by Scott SnyderHellboy, Vol. 1 by Mike Mignola
Folk horror comics
20 books — 3 voters

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

Dr. Watson
“ I am the trees and the flowers you step on. Iam the earth you walk on, the water you drink, the animals you kill. I am the mountains and the never-ending sea. I am here and everywhere else, now and forever. I am Everything. ”
― Dr. Watson, When the Spring Comes

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