num_pages: 224
description: Interest in the ancient the occult and the wyrd is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy ('The Wicker Man') Piers Haggard ('Blood on Satan's Claw') and Michael Reeves ('Witchfinder General') have arisen again most notably in the films of Ben Wheatley ('Kill List') as has the Spirit of Dark of Lonely Water Juganets cursed Saxon crowns spaceships hidden under ancient barrows owls and flowers time-warping stone circles wicker men the goat of Mendes and malicious stone tapes.Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond using theories of psychogeography hauntology and topography to delve into the genre's output in film television and multimedia as its sacred demon of ungovernableness rises yet again in the twenty-first century.
language: English
title: Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange
publisher: Auteur Publishing in partnership with Liverpool University Press