Delighted to announce that The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror will finally be released on the 9th October 2023.
Edited by Robert Edgar and Wayne Johnson, the book will feature over 40 contributors (Including Catherine Spooner, Daryl Jones and Ruth Heholt) and will explore the origins, canonical texts and thinkers, as well as its many underlying themes of nostalgia, hauntology, and further emerging trends.
I have also been able to contribute a chapter, titled: “I am the writing on the wall, the whisper in the classroom”: The Changing Conception of the ‘Folk’ in the Western Folk Horror Tradition. Drawing from sources such as M. R. James ‘Warning to the Curious’ , Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Wendigo’ and Bernard Rose’s Candyman, this chapter will illustrate how ‘folklore’ and the ‘folk’ have evolved within scholarship and the evolving ‘Folk Horror’ tradition.
I would like to thank both the editors Robert and Wayne for their support on this project and for the opportunity to submit a piece to what I’m sure will be an invaluable resource for students.
Monstrous Folklore - Werewolves and the 19th Century 