At The Harvest Maid’s Revenge, Rowan Lee shares some excellent thoughts on “folk horror” and the limits of generic definitions. “The more I know about folk horror, the less I understand about how it works. Maybe those of us who spend our time thinking about it are just too much up our own asses, which is often the way of academic types. More likely, though, I think that the attempt to define the genre is still in its infancy and we’re in that transitional phase where all we can see are thousands of disparate points in no observable pattern, shifting and roiling the more we try to make sense of them. It is a kind of madness. But one day, maybe 20 or 30 years later, we’ll be far enough away to see the image clearly. And it will be beautiful.”

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