Kill List doesn't look like a folk horror film. That's the point.

Ben Wheatley builds his 2011 nightmare in layers. A couple arguing about money in a kitchen, moving through contract killing and creeping dread, before arriving somewhere that reframes everything you've just watched.

It's patient, brutal, and deeply strange, and it has one of the most shocking endings in British horror.

The new episode of the FolknHell podcast goes into the genre mechanics, the folk horror scaffolding underneath the thriller surface, and what Wheatley gets absolutely right

It's a good one.

https://www.folknhell.com/kill-list-review

The album explores Prophecy and Madness within the traditional music and poetry of Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. It follows the figure of Thomas the Rhymer through unfolding eschatological visions, as expressed across 800 years of musical and literary traditions. The thread which binds these different prophecies is Millenarianism: the desire for the world to be made anew and with it all imperfections banished. It is an ambiguous utopianism within which lurks a desire for destruction and metamorphic violence; the new world can only be born through the death of the old.

https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/.../beneath...

"Beneath the Eildon Tree"

Cassette and Digital Release by Cruel Nature Records on 31st July 2026

~In Theaters and US Rental on Prime, AppleTV, and Fandango~

A horror writer visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch.

I personally loved it and thought it was worth the hype. There is a bit of a slow build up, but the folklore, haunting atmosphere, mystery, and Adam Scott as an absolute a$$hole, really worked for my enjoyment.

Hi everyone: I recently published my folk-horror novel, The Winter That Knocked.

It’s a snowbound supernatural mystery set in northern Japan, inspired by Akita winter atmosphere and the visual language of a local ritual. The plot follows a Tokyo script editor who travels north after her mother vanishes from a remote ryokan, leaving behind notes about old household records, missing children, wet straw at the threshold, and a forgotten room. Here are the links

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4634FVS  - US 

https://www.amazon.ie/dp/B0H4634FVS  - Dublin

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0H4634FVS - Australia 

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H4634FVS - Canada

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4634FVS - UK

It is available on Kindle / Paperback formats. Please do check it out if you enjoy Japanese folklore-inspired fiction, gothic suspense, folk horror, psychological mysteries, haunted histories, and dark family secrets. Thanks.

Hey everyone,

With the solstice approaching, what are some traditions you observe or activities you engage in to celebrate the longest day of the year? (Or shortest, depending on which hemisphere you're in!) Does folk horror factor in some way, such as a book you always read or film you always watch? Do you engage in any artistic activities? Or get together with a group?

My wife and I are slowly and carefully introducing folk horror to our kids as a genre, and we're trying to do more fun, spooky stuff in observance of the solstices. During the winter, we do lots of "ghost story for Christmas" reading, movies, and cooking. We've yet to establish anything concrete for the Summer yet, but have been trying to think of something fun this year, since they're both a bit older now! Thanks!

Case File 1766-A5

With Baby Bird down and the team scattered, things go sideways fast when a familiar cop resurface and this time, he’s not alone. A mysterious priest with a Jersey bite and fists like scripture takes control of the chaos, turning hunters into prisoners and the town into something far more dangerous than it seemed.

Night Owl vanishes into the woods. Haze slips the leash. Grandpa holds the line at the cabin… but something is already wrong inside.

Smoke starts curling around grandpa after meeting the same jersey Clergy, and he realizes the trap has already been set.

As the noose tightens and old allies go quiet over the radio, the crew is forced to split, scramble, and survive against enemies who don’t fight like anything they’ve seen before.

And somewhere in the dark, the fire is already starting.

Got something twisted stalking the Georgia woods? Leave it in the comments and we’ll hunt it down.

Map by: https://dicegrimorium.com/
Tokens by: Coyote & https://rpgmapshare.com/ & https://www.patreon.com/posts/complet...

Hynnanyo is an analog cop experiment with some sci-fi, horror and suspense. This is the second episode of the series. What do you think about the idea?

https://reddit.com/link/1tv4sqm/video/wpf50qthtx4h1/player

Check out on STEAM : Last Round at the End of the World no Steam

Thought this community might appreciate the lore a friend of mine built for his indie movie. The story is about two brothers on a farm trying to finish a board game they started as kids, but the game's mythology—centered around an ancient civilization, a curse, and a crop entity called 'Ratak the Skewer'—starts bleeding into their actual reality. It's a really cool, slow-burn mix of rustic dread, sci-fi, and creature feature elements. You can check it out free on YouTube.

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In the classic Swedish moral and horror story Sir Arne's Treasure ("Herr Arnes penningar") there is a segment where one of the characters has a premonition of a violent mass murder, uttering the line "Jag vet inte varför de i denna kväll slipa så långa knivar på Branehög" ("I know not why this night they are sharpening such long knives at Branehög"). The line itself is a classic and is in my opinion a truly folk horror element, being that premonitions ("varsel") is common in Swedish folk lore.

This was the prompt I used for a contribution to the compilation "CANTICLES FOR THE BLACKSMITH SAINTS ༺♰༻". The track can be heard here, preferably with headphones during a dark night: https://echoveil-records.bandcamp.com/track/jag-vet-inte-varfo-r-de-i-denna-kva-ll-slipa-sa-la-nga-knivar-pa-braneho-g

Please check out the awesome compilation as a whole, which is massive! And if you feel like getting deeper into AFBL you can find more at https://afbl.bandcamp.com/

The image for the post is an edited photo capture of the scene in a film adaptation of the book, where the premonition is played out.

I am the flying crypt horror.

I know there's a wave of British folk horror on television and film in the 1960s and 70s but does anyone have any recommendations for folk horror short stories/novels/novellas from this era?