Now my day job has started up again, I’ve not been able to devote as much time to lino cutting than before.

Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology by Richard Wells Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology by Richard Wells

Overall a disappointing collection, just because something is set in the wilderness and maybe has a wee bit of devil worship (hail Satan) does not make it Folk Horror.This time, it’s for Walter de la Mare’s tale ‘All Hallows’, first published in the collection The Connoisseur, and Other Stories, 1926. Andy Paciorek is an author and artist working mostly within the fields of horror, folklore, Forteana and other Weird stuff. I think they work nicely together, a couple of late 19th century tragic romances full of folkloric doom! In his Introduction to Damnable Tales, the novelist Benjamin Myers offers a clue: ‘They take place in worlds we recognise as once-removed from our realities. While her contemporaries were cranking out Victoriana Nesbit delivers her tale in a strikingly modern style that reminded me of Bernard Taylor's best.

[Review] Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology – Horrified

If you’ve seen the proposed contents page in the Unbound excerpt section, you’ll see this tale is a new addition. Some used it really heavily/ almost exclusively to the point where the story was difficult to be immersed in because you had to re-read every other line to understand what was happening. However, even after vowing to only read good books from now on, I soldiered on as I thought maybe the remaining stories would pull it all back. Murray Gilchrist) is very short, I’ve decided to include a second story by the same author –‘The Basilisk’.Ez azonban nem változtat azon, hogy a legtöbben annyit fognak fel ebből a gondolatmenetből, hogy vidéken tisztább, szebb és derűsebb az élet, az emberek mind szeretik egymást, a családtagok összetartanak, a halált és a születést egy körforgás részeként, harmóniában élik meg, az egyénieskedő elhajlásokat jótékonyan megfékezi a hagyományokon őrködő közösség, az agressziót pedig kiélik kapálás közben. Others seemed to recognise the inherent uneasyness of some landscapes and that feeling, creeping up on you through the autumn mist, and that's what I'm really chasing when I turn to folk horror. I thought I'd share with you this video I cobbled togethera few weeks back, charting my process of producinga lino print. I believe this is generally subjective on the part of the reader, and not always because a bad selection is made. Conversely, there were also one or two that seemed to end very abruptly and could have gone on for a bit longer.

Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology Publication: Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

Az, hogy a folk horror – ha jól értelmezem – pont ennek a felfogásnak ad egy piszkos nagy pofont, de úgy, hogy a fal adja a másikat. The 30th of April of course was Walpurgis Night, traditionally when fires are lit to ward off evil spirits, and the Devil himself creeps abroad. One of the joys of anthologies is squabbling with the editor's choices, but I can't quibble with these. However, these tales are important examples of the diversity of the folk horror tradition, and worthy of inclusion in such an anthology. The book includes a foreword by the author Benjamin Myers, amongst whose gritty novels The Gallows Pole has made an impression on many folk horror revivalist readers (and which has been adapted to screen by Shane Meadows and the BBC), and that’s another box ticked in its favour.Sheridan Le Fanu's dark fairy tale, 'Laura Silver-Bell' is also hard going on a first read (even the narrator apologises for the Northumbrian dialect) but stick with it. Saki, Walter de la Mare) through the obligatory for this subject matter (MR James, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson) to names unfamiliar (at least, to me). Illetve ha valaki az eddigi ajánlóim alapján úgy gondolja, hogy az enyémhez hasonló az ízlése, akkor neki is.