Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures (Lexington Books Horror Studies)

Cover\nContents\nList of Figures\nForeword\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nFraming the Past to Make the Present\n“Buried”\nThe Folklore of British Folk Horror\nSecret Powers of Attraction\nA Battlefield in England\nLive Horror Theater, Nostalgia, and Folklore\nFrayed Strands Entwined\nAmerica, Settlers, and Belonging\nPalimpsests and Other Texts\n“There’s Some Weird Shit Going on in the Woods”\nFae Fight Back\nFacing Backward While Looking Forward\nCultural Positionings\nEarly American Colonial Violence and Folk Horror\nWendigo Tales\nA Locus of the Old and New in Australian Folk Horror Cinema\nA Multi-contextual Analysis of the Future of Folk Horror in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth\nWho Makes the Hood?\nIdentity\nNon-normativity in Female-Centered Folk Horror Literature\n(In)Visible Women\nSpeculative Folk Horror and Reclaiming Monsters in Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman\n‌‌Religion and Rewilding in Michel Faber’s Ecohorror\nIntersections and Futures\n“Nigh Is the Time of Madness and Disdain”\nA Horror Film for Our Times\nFuture Shock Folk Horror in Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem\nFolk Horror in Inside No. 9\nIndex\nAbout the Editor and Contributors