Unquiet Slumbers: An Anthology of Folk Horror Tales

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. ​ Contents: Introduction - Edward Parnell 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* Designed and Illustrated by Elijah John. ​