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
Wylding Hall
Devil's Day
Pine
The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror
P.L. McMillan
We were left alone to starve. It was through our Mother Superior's sacrifice and the grace of our God that we survived that first winter, that we continue to survive. By what entitlement do these priests feel to come here and command us? ...more
P.L. McMillan, Sisters of the Crimson Vine

Ravn R. Ashcroft
I write about the things people bury politely, and the tide that brings them back.
Ravn R. Ashcroft, The Myling: The Drowned Gods. Book One

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