Also interesting seeing past centuries' perception of Halloween, and some folklore/practices I was not aware of such as sin eating. Tales Accursed is the second collection of classic supernatural stories selected by the artist Richard Wells.

Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Summer People’ built up some great tension, but then stopped abruptly, so it just felt like an unfinished project. El libro es un largo recorrido por las raices del género y pese a empezar de manera flojita pronto encontramos relatos magníficos de la mano de autores clásicos como M. A couple were written in such thick dialect they were difficult to read and a couple just seemed to meander off and not go anywhere. I'm quite surprised to see other reviews mentioning small typeface or other issues with clarity, as to me this looks great, a really attractive book with clear care and attention to layout, font, font size and so on. It also clearly illustrates otherwise to anyone who may still think that folk horror originated with three British films at the tail-end of the hippy dream.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The subtitle says ‘A Folk Horror Analogy’, and that description is kind of loose, since some of the tales are more folky than others, and a few are dubiously horrific at all. The Withered Arm was also a very interesting story, with almost a time travel/sensing the future paradox of the two main characters harming each other unintentionally, in ways that depend on the actions of the other. R. James, Shirley Jackson and Algernon Blackwood, alongside eerie tales by those less associated with the horror genre, like John Buchan, E.

Indeed there were a lot of good examples of that in this collection, but there were other themes too.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.