Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by
masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P.
Lovecraft, M. R. James , Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine,
Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver ,
Michael Marshall Smith, Karl Edward Wagner, and more! The darkness
that endures beneath the earth . . . the disquiet that lingers in
the woodland surrounding a forgotten path . . . those ancient
traditions and practices that still cling to standing stone
circles, earthworks, and abandoned buildings; elaborate rituals
that invoke elder gods or nature deities; the restless spirits and
legendary creatures that remain connected to a place or object, or
exist in deep wells and lonely pools of water, waiting to ensnare
the unwary traveler . . . These concepts have been the archetypes
of horror fiction for decades, but in recent years they have been
given a name: Folk Horror. This type of storytelling has existed
for more than a century. Authors Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood,
H. P. Lovecraft, and M. R. James all published fiction that had it
roots in the notion of the supernatural being linked to objects or
places "left behind." All four writers are represented in this
volume with powerful, and hopefully unfamiliar, examples of their
work, along with newer exponents of the craft such as Ramsey
Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood,
Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, and many others. Illustrated with the
atmospheric photography of Michael Marshall Smith, the stories in
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror tap into an aspect of folkloric
tradition that has long been dormant, but never quite forgotten,
while the depiction of these forces as being in some way "natural"
in no way detracts from the sense of nameless dread and escalating
horror that they inspire . . .
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