Unquiet Slumbers: An Anthology of Folk Horror Tales

Like tales of folklore and fairytale passed on orally over centuries, Folk Horror too is an ever evolving, and shape-shifting entity. Most famous perhaps are the three flagship films 'The Wicker Man', 'Blood on Satan's Claw' and 'The Witchfinder General, but in written form, Folk Horror has a rich history.

Writers such as M R James, Arthur Machen, Eleanor Scott and Algernon Blackwood were past masters, invoking fear and foreboding through tropes which have come to embody Folk Horror. Rural settings, a sense of isolation, superstition, paganism, the old gods, the awakening of a buried past and the darkest aspects of nature.

Unquiet Slumbers is a collection of seventeen such stories by some of the finest contemporary writers of horror fiction, twelve of these stories* will be published here for the first time.

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Contents:

Introduction - Edward Parnell
Byerly Mount - Ron Weighell
Absent Below the Lip - Charles Wilkinson
Fangs and Teeth, Broken and Bloody - John Langan
The Original Occupant -Adam Nevill
Greener Pastures - Michael Wehunt
Whisper to a Grey - Stephen Volk
Horns - Rowe Irvin
Wassail - Sean Hogan
The Knocking - Helen Grant
The Whisky Spinners God - Alex Older
The Tunnel of Saksaksalim - Ron Weighell
The Night Hag - Tracy Fahey
The Water Bells - Charles Wilkinson
The Grassman - Rebecca Lloyd
The Flabby Man - David Surface
Maiden in the Moor - Elizabeth Dearnley
Crow - Wren Robinson*

Designed and Illustrated by Elijah John.