I wish I could show you inside my head, the maps of cultures, societies, timelines, history, organizations, themes and metaphors, collective symbols, worldviews, human psychology, all of it intersecting across each other like multidimensional cells in a Petri dish.

I *can* put this stuff into words, like in this thread, but there's so much I just don't have energy to go into. Or, sometimes that particular view that I'm looking at it isn't quite yet formed.

Stuff enough useless knowledge in there for 50 years and some patterns do start to emerge.

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#FolkHorror #Heilung #Music #rewilding #Decolonize #decolonization #AbuseCulture #paganism #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #genealogy

A lot of typos and errors in this thread. I was fighting with my phone's autocarrot for just about every word the entire thread.

It's readable though.

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#FolkHorror #Heilung #Music #rewilding #Decolonize #decolonization #AbuseCulture #paganism #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #genealogy

I'm also recalling that I explore these themes, in my novel Emerald City Dreamer and its unpublished sequels, before I had much of this language or these models to describe it.

It's about faeries and faerie hunters, based on Celtic and Scandinavian faerie lore. Fae lore is one remaining piece of pre-Christian animistic religion that managed to "survive", though barely intact.

I explore those themes via the hunters' perspective and the fae, trying to capture the spirit of actual lore rather than a rationalized version of fairies. These are capricious beings with alternative kinds of reason and morality than humans can understand. Just like nature, the Fae are neither "good" or "bad," they just are. I also explore themes of fae eradication by the advent of iron, Christianity, and later science.

In later books, I explore how colonization affected indigenous spirits in the Seattle region, in that the presence of European humans changed them against their will. And that's why all the fae in Seattle are somehow Celtic and Scandinavian.

I guess I've been thinking about this stuff for long time. And I've been pissed about the loss of Celtic culture for a long time. Because I've gone looking and it's more question marks than periods.

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#FolkHorror #Heilung #Music #rewilding #Decolonize #decolonization #AbuseCulture #paganism #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #genealogy

Regarding folk horror, which is absolutely dealing with these themes in really interesting ways (paganism vs Christianity, Christianity vs science, science vs paganism), there's a great documentary about folk horror on Shudder that should make sense. My lost contribution was just further exploration of what it had to say, via movies I was watching at the time.

It's called Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched. A must if you're a horror fan.

#FolkHorror #Heilung #Music #rewilding #Decolonize #decolonization #AbuseCulture #paganism #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #genealogy

The atmospheric ruins of Sorbie Old Kirk, in The Machars of Galloway.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #ruins #folkhorror

#NowWatching “Black Sunday” (1960) on Kanopy

Blu-ray: https://amzn.to/44f2Rwe

Directed by Mario Bava

Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia.

#DigitalMedia #streaming #ad #supernatural #horror #vampire #witch #FolkHorror

EDIT: APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO APPLIED.

GOATS is ready for the beta stage! Due to the nature of the story, & to try to tackle some ongoing beta issues, I'm changing up the application process. If you want to apply please fill out the form (link in bio). Only those accepted will be contacted.
#betareaderswanted #horror #folkhorror

I'm so proud that my short story 'John Barleycorn' is featured in this blazing anthology of Folk Horror by Infested Publishing. This is my first work of fiction to be published! Full credit to them for having such vision!

The solstice can't come quick enough! 🌻

#Folklore #Fiction ##Folkhorror #Shropshire #writing #Johnbarleycorn

From the British Fantasy Society:

In his semi-regular column on the TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits The Owl Service, a formative book and series for many of today’s folk horror writers.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/the-tv-that-made-us-the-owl-service-1969-70/

#britishfantasysociety #theowlservice #alangarner #fantasy #horror #folkhorror #nostalgia #1970s

#NowWatching Hellbender (2021) 🎬 Horror movie on a Sunday. I know literally nothing about this apart from its folk horror and supposedly involves witches. That's good enough for me. #movies #horrormovies #folkhorror

"Once he’s awoken, no lock, no prayer,
no fire will hold him back." - 𝔻𝕣 ℍ𝕒𝕨𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝔹𝕣𝕚𝕞𝕓𝕝𝕖

#TheGreenMan #Folkhorror #EshwoodHall

Today’s plan:

Start writing out the first full draft of Old Gods and Ancient Ways. My 1970s British Folk Horror roleplaying game book that’s going to be the prize of our next treasure hunt. What are you up to?

#writing #ttrpg #folkhorror

A #ttrpg setting of growing up in the shadows …

#folkhorror

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/522883/concrete-shadows?src=also_purchased&affiliate_id=1278364

‘This anthology — part of the Beyond & Within series from Flame Tree Publishing — is very good. Kudos to the editors (excellent horror writers themselves) for assembling such an amount of creepy and entertaining material.’

Great review of #FolkHorror:

https://www.blackgate.com/2024/10/20/folk-horror-edited-by-paul-kane-marie-oreagan-flame-tree-publishing-2024-reviewed-by-mario-guslandi/

An urban folk-horror #ttrpg setting where players are teens in a UK council estate in 1984

The Council is Watching

#folkhorror #urbanhorror #ttrpg #ttrpgs #horrorgame #analoghorror

#WritingPrompt #DarkFiction #WeirdHorror #WritersOfInstagram #FolkHorror #FlashFiction #SundayWriting

If you’re looking for a bit of #folkhorror this #bankholiday and love #TheWickerMan #Midsommar #HotFuzz then look no further… 🌼

https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/the-colour-of-madness

https://tinyurl.com/vnn2j3zu

https://tinyurl.com/muv9w7r3

https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/the-family-lie-p-l-kane?variant=39458509488206

Jason Limon
#art #weird #horror #folkhorror
Via: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ9U862uGFI/

Reread the classic stories “The Tree on the Hill” by Lovecraft and “A View from a Hill” by M.R. James (for some reason I always have them together).
Impressed not for the first time, getting a dose of inspiration for planning further trails.
Do you have any topographical names in your region associated with something “devilish”?
#horror #folkhorror #hpl

Concrete Shadows - an urban folk-horror #ttrpg setting in a UK council estate in 1984

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/522883/concrete-shadows?affiliate_id=1278364

#folkhorror #analoghorror #statichorror #concreteshadows