There are 23 short stories in this volume, and each is accompanied by its own newly commissioned woodcut style lino print at the beginning of each tale.

R. Wakefield, which ticks ever folk horror box yet still manages to surprise (the finale lingers in the mind), but every story has its moments. Outside of his television work, he makes and sells his own darkly folkloric artwork, often lino cut and printed by hand (slipperyjack. Benson can be a pious bore, but though his tale has a strong Christian flavour, it still manages a couple of disturbing moments. When I heard it was being crowd-funded I was a bit wary of what the quality would be like, but there’s no complaint here.Unholy rites, witches’ curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape all combine to remind us that the shiny modern, urban world might not have all the answers… Wicked witches, bad fairies, and the restless dead be damned, for those who are looking to fill up their folk horror fiction shelves, Damnable Tales is a must-have. There was none of that eerie foreboding that you get from communities just outside the modern world going balls deep into some old school religion much to the horror of the modern watchers on. I had never seen a Folk Horror anthology before, and especially one that was so beautifully illustrated. There are only a couple of tales that do this, so for the casual reader or those entirely new to folk horror: do not be put off.

on another note, it was so interesting to me how pagan beliefs or superstitions ran in line with Christian beliefs on the whole throughout the stories in the anthology, when in modern-day evangelicalism they are presented as polar opposites. This collection is carefully presented with remarkable hand-carved illustrations to accompany each story. He is one of the ‘talking heads’ on the Severin films' documentary, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror’.There's a bit of everything in here from great demonic figures, to ominous brooding buildings, to strange and twisted village rituals. 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 s soon as I heard the initial musings of a book of classic folk horror short stories selected and illustrated by Richard Wells, my curiosity was piqued on several levels. This is a book that demands to be read aloud--perhaps on a darkening winter evening before a roaring fire.While the volume can be challenging at times due to time periods in which the authors wrote, it is well worth the effort.

What is it about these stories of the uncanny, many of them written over a century ago, that make them so appealing to contemporary readers?I believe this is generally subjective on the part of the reader, and not always because a bad selection is made. Relatos ambientados en aldeas remotas, castillos abandonados e islas perdidas donde habitan extraños personajes, cultos paganos y dioses malévolos. Sometimes (more often in the older stories) these lead to a denouement in which the protagonist either witnesses or is drawn into a specific bizarre happening, but in others the point seems to be more to leave the reader with a general sense of foreboding or unease without any specific event at the conclusion.