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Folk horror : new global pathways / edited by Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Horror studies.
- Horror Studies.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk horror fiction--History and criticism.
- Folk horror fiction.
- Folk horror films--History and criticism.
- Folk horror films.
- Folklore in popular culture.
- Folklore in literature.
- Folklore in motion pictures.
- Horror in literature.
- Horror tales--History and criticism.
- Horror tales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary moment. This study sets out to rethink the assumptions that have guided critical writing on the genre in the face of such expansions, with chapters exploring a range of subjects from the fiction of E. F. Benson to Scooby-Doo, video games, and community engagement with the Lancashire witches. In looking beyond Britain, the essays collected here extend folk horror's geographic terrain to map new conceptualisations of the genre now seen emerging from Italy, Ukraine, Thailand, Mexico and the Appalachian region of the US.-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-78683-981-4
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