Folk horror is one of those nebulous sub-genres that seems, when one first sets out to define it, relatively simple. Yet the longer one dwells on it, the more one is exposed to it, the more complicated the definition becomes, until at last one simply throws up one’s […]
The Gutter’s own Carol writes about The Golden Bough, Margaret Murray unwrapping mummies, Lord Summerisle’s hair, the reason for the season, and how sex and naps could save your life in The Wicker Man for Teleport City: “The moral of this story might be that sex and naps […]
The green, mist-shrouded landscape of British folk horror seems at first an off place to go looking for science fiction. Stories about, in film, television, and literature (and doubtless in ribald songs belted out at the local pub where Britt Ekland works) of sinister moors, sylvan glades, and […]
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