The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (Routledge Literature Companions)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Origins and Histories
	Chapter 1 Fear of the World: Folk Horror in Early British Literature
	Chapter 2 The Early Modern Popular Demonic and the Foundations of Twentieth Century British Folk Horror
	Chapter 3 ‘Banished to Woods and a Sickly Moon’: The Old Gods in Folk Horror
	Chapter 4 ‘I Am the Writing on the Wall, the Whisper in the Classroom’: The Changing Conception of the ‘Folk’ in the Western Folk Horror Tradition
	Chapter 5 M.R. James and Folk Horror
	Chapter 6 ‘Leave Something Witchy’: Evolving Representations of Cults and New Religious Movements in Folk Horror
	Chapter 7 The Spectacle of the Uncanny Revel: Thomas Hardy’s Mephistophelian Visitants and ‘Folk Provenance’
	Chapter 8 ‘We’re Not in the Middle Ages’: Alan Garner’s Folk Horror Medievalism
Part II Folk Horror Landscapes and Relics
	Chapter 9 Terror in the Landscape: Folk Horror in the Stories of M.R. James
	Chapter 10 Folk Horror, HS2, and the Disenchanted Woods
	Chapter 11 Mind the Doors! Characterising the London Underground on Screen as a Folk Horror Space
	Chapter 12 Queer Folk: The Danger of Being Different
	Chapter 13 ‘Out of the Dust’: Folk Horror and the Urban Wyrd in Too Old to Die Young and Other Works by Nicolas Winding Refn
	Chapter 14 Meeting the Gorse Mother: Feminist Approaches to Folk Horror in Contemporary British Fiction
	Chapter 15 Handicrafts of Evil: The Make-Culture of Folk Horror
	Chapter 16 Restoring Relics: (Re)-releasing Antrum (2018) and Film as Folk Horror
Part III Hauntology, Childhood, and Nostalgia
	Chapter 17 Yesterday’s Memories of Tomorrow: Nostalgia, Hauntology, and Folk Horror
	Chapter 18 Ghosts in the Machine: Folklore and Technology On-screen in Ghostwatch (1992) and Host (2020)
	Chapter 19 The Pattern Under the Plough: Folk Horror in 1970s British Children’s Television
	Chapter 20 ‘This Calm, Serene Orb’: A Personal Recollection of the Comforting Strangeness Found in the Worlds of Smallfilms
	Chapter 21 ‘To Traumatise Kids for Life’: The Influence of Folk Horror on 1970s Children’s Television
	Chapter 22 ‘That Haunted Feeling’: Analogue Memories
	Chapter 23 ‘Don’t Be Frightened. I Told You We Were Privileged’: The British Class System in Televised Folk Horror of the 1970s
	Chapter 24 The 4:45 Club: Folk Horror Before Teatime in the 1970s and 1980s
Part IV Sound and Image in Folk Horror
	Chapter 25 The Idyllic Horrific: Field, Farm, Garden, Forest, and Machine
	Chapter 26 “And the Devil He Came to the Farmer at Plough”: November, Folk Horror and Folk Music
	Chapter 27 Sounding Folk Horror and the Strange Rural
	Chapter 28 ‘Sounds of Our Past’: The Electronic Music that Links Folk Horror and Hauntology
	Chapter 29 Even in Death: The ‘Folk Horror Chain’ in Black Metal
	Chapter 30 Toward ‘Squire Horror’: Genesis 1972-1973
	Chapter 31 Patterns beneath the Grid: The Haunted Spaces of Folk Horror Comics
	Chapter 32 From the Fibres, from the Forums, from the Fringe – Folk Horror from the Deep, Dark Web
Part V Regionality, Nationality, and Transnationality
	Chapter 33 ‘The Dark Is Here’: The Third Day and Folk Horror’s Anxiety about Birth Rates, Immigration, and Race
	Chapter 34 Hinterlands and SPAs: Folk Horror and Neo-liberal Desolation
	Chapter 35 ‘Why Don’t You Go Home?’: The Folk Horror Revival in Contemporary Cornish Gothic Films
	Chapter 36 Satire and the Folk Horror Revival
	Chapter 37 English Nationalism, Folklore, and Indigeneity
	Chapter 38 Bound by Elusiveness: Transnational Cinema and Folk Horror
	Chapter 39 Strange Permutations, Eerie Dis/locations: On the Cultural and Geographic Specificity of Japanese Folk Horror
	Chapter 40 ‘All the Little Devils Are Proud of Hell’: The First Wave of Australian Folk Horror
Index