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The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror

ed. Robert Edgar & Wayne Johnson

Routledge 2023

Hb 472pp, £215, ISBN 9781032042831

ebook £43.99

If the following have any meaning for you then you are probably part of this book’s target audience: The ‘Unholy Trinity’, Witchfinder General, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, The Wicker Man, Folk Horror, Urban Wyrd, Andy Paciorek, Adam Scovell.

But before you rush out and buy it, some warnings – the hard-back list price is £215 and it’s an academic text, written in an appropriate style, with

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