I’m not sure when the folk horror (or folk horror “adjacent”!) element of my new thriller, The Midnight Feast first came to me. Perhaps it was researching the area in which the book is set, the Wes…

There is, however, a rich seam of all things folk horror in fiction old and new and I had great (evil) fun reading the below in the course of my research:

  • Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
  • Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
  • The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
  • The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology, selected and illustrated by Richard Wells