Folk Horror: New Global Pathways (Horror Studies) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786839792 ISBN 13: 9781786839794

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Dawn Keetley is professor of English and film at Lehigh University. She is the author of Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston.<br /><br />Ruth Heholt is associate professor of dark economies and gothic literature at Falmouth University. She is the author of Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre and Radical Politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786839792
• ISBN 13: 9781786839794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Keetley Dawn, Heholt Ruth