Description
Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts n the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, using theories of psychogeography, hauntology, and topography to delve into the genre's output in film, television, and multimedia as its "sacred demon of ungovernableness" rises yet again in the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Adam Scovell is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Liverpool, a short film-maker, and an authority in the field of folk horror. He blogs at celluloidwickerman.com.
Reviews
Adam Scovell's Folk Horror is an excellent primer on the cultural mode . . . Folk Horror well reflects the emerging 'newness' of the discipline, still pliable and open to interpretation. * Gramarye *
Book Information
ISBN 9781911325222
Author Adam Scovell
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Auteur Publishing
Publisher Liverpool University Press