Tag Archives: Folk Horror

1st Jan Deadline: CFP: OGOM and Supernatural Cities: The Urban Weird

Posted on 19th December 2017 by Sam George

Less than two weeks to go before we close the first round of our CFP for OGOM and Supernatural Cities present The Urban Weird, 6th-7th April. We’re waiting to hear from you…..so many magical treats in store (Brownies and Boggarts) … Continue reading →

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CFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities Present: The Urban Weird

Posted on 21st August 2017 by Sam George

To coincide with the eclipse here is the CFP for our next conference! It promises to eclipse all other events….it’s  cosmic! University of Hertfordshire, 6-7 April, 2018 The permanent link for the CFP, with a PDF version available, is here. … Continue reading →

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Images of Witches

Posted on 22nd May 2017 by William the Bloody

Some excellent articles on witches today. First, Chloe Buckley, in ‘Hag, temptress or feminist icon? The witch in popular culture‘, looks at images of witches in popular culture, both positive and disparaging. She notes the contemporary feminist rehabilitation of the … Continue reading →

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Penda’s Fen: Symposium, BFI, 10 June 2017

Posted on 11th May 2017 by William the Bloody

We’ve posted a few items here on Folk Horror recently. The classic TV drama Penda’s Fen (1974) is frequently mentioned in this context; I’m embarrassed to admit I’ve never seen it (though have just borrowed the DVD). Sukhdev Sandhu writes about … Continue reading →

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What to do when the Folk Horror is us

Posted on 2nd May 2017 by Sam George

Tomorrow marks the publication of the eagerly awaited ‘Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange’ by Adam Scovell (Auteur publishing, 2017). Scovell has defined such genres in relation to (mostly British) landscape as ‘the evil under the soil, the terror in … Continue reading →

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Folk Horror Revival

Posted on 27th July 2016 by William the Bloody

Folk Horror is a category of Gothic which seems to be getting a lot of attention these days. There’s an exciting new web site, Folk Horror Revival, devoted to the topic, paying particular attention to the musical aspects of this … Continue reading →

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Folk Horror: Blood Sucking Vampire Goat Terrorises Village

Posted on 29th June 2016 by Sam George

Following my recent post on folk horror and the appearance earlier this year of the Hull Werewolf Old Stinker, who sparked a folk panic in the UK, stories are breaking that a legendary Chupacabra has been caught and killed in the Ukraine … Continue reading →

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Folk Horror for Beginners

Posted on 19th June 2016 by Sam George

I am increasingly intrigued by ‘folk horror’ and it was one of the sections in the British Library’s Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition  that I spent longest pondering over. The BFI’s recent article is a must read therefore, … Continue reading →

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Gothic Spaces and Standing Stones

Posted on 17th May 2016 by firekrank

I have just stumbled across this wonderful blog, Celluloid Wicker Man, which is run by writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell. He is particularly interested on Folk Horror which can be seen in this incredibly interesting series of posts, ‘Uncanny Portals … Continue reading →

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‘Witches’ Brew’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, February 2016

Posted on 10th January 2016 by firekrank

It’s not just vampires, werewolves and zombies that draw our interest at OGOM. We are equal opportunity supernatural entities and Sam has certainly been flying the flag for witches. (She has blogged about the ‘The Emergence of the Sympathetic Witch’, … Continue reading →

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