The strange Englishness of folk horror
Adam S. Leslie peels back the layers of one of our most enduring literary genres
There’s a certain irony in the fact that the most widely-recognised example of folk-horror, a genre as quintessentially English as Shakespeare and The Kinks, is The Wicker Man — a film about a dour, puritanical Scottish policeman investigating the disappearance of a child on a small Scottish island.
And yet, despite this, there’s a distinct Englishness t…
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