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 manyContinue reading “NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! – The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror”
Category Archives: Urban Folklore
“The figure leaps with one bound onto a wall…” – A Secret Kept (1894) and the urban mythology of Spring-heeled Jack
01-08-2020 – Craig Thomson “The figure leaps with one bound onto a wall, and when the policeman is trying to follow the figure leaps down upon him, and seizes him by the throat.” “He trembles continually, and is also continually talking of a flash of green fire that came from the eyes of the personContinue reading ““The figure leaps with one bound onto a wall…” – A Secret Kept (1894) and the urban mythology of Spring-heeled Jack”
Monstrous Folklore - Werewolves and the 19th Century 