Like tales of folklore and fairytale passed on orally over centuries, Folk Horror too is an ever evolving, and shape-shifting entity. Most famous perhaps are the three flagship films 'The Wicker Man', 'Blood on Satan's Claw' and 'The Witchfinder General, but in written form, Folk Horror has a rich history. 

 

Writers such as M R James, Arthur Machen, Eleanor Scott and Algernon Blackwood were past masters, invoking fear and foreboding through tropes which have come to embody Folk Horror. Rural settings, a sense of isolation, superstition, paganism, the old gods, the awakening of a buried past and the darkest aspects of nature.

 

Unquiet Slumbers is a collection of seventeen such stories by some of the finest contemporary writers of horror fiction, twelve of these stories* will be published here for the first time. 

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Contents: 

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Introduction - Edward Parnell

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Byerly Mount - Ron Weighell

Absent Below the Lip - Charles Wilkinson*

Fangs and Teeth, Broken and Bloody - John Langan*

The Original Occupant -Adam Nevill

Greener Pastures - Michael Wehunt 

Whisper to a Grey - Stephen Volk

Horns - Rowe Irvin*

Wassail - Sean Hogan*

The Knocking - Helen Grant*

The Whisky Spinners God - Alex Older*

The Tunnel of Saksaksalim - Ron Weighell

The Night Hag - Tracy Fahey*

The Water Bells - Charles Wilkinson*

The Grassman - Rebecca Lloyd

The Flabby Man - David Surface*

Maiden in the Moor - Elizabeth Dearnley*

Crow - Wren Robinson*

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Designed and Illustrated by Elijah John.

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