Folk horror season is here! In this episode, we ask what folk horror is, our favorite folk horror books and movies, and the folk horror books/movies we're most looking forward to reading this season! Episode recorded early May 2025.

Theme song by Matty Allen.

Books Mentioned:

• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
• My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Bone Drenched Woods by L.V. Russell
• It Waits in the Forest by Sarah Dass
• The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson
• Daughter of the Merciful Deep by Leslye Penelope
• Tangleroot by Kalela Williams
• La Reina by JD Yanez
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Souls Triology by Harley La Roux
• Eclipse Ritual by Kate Rivenhall
• Bloodroots by Richie Tankersley Cusick
• Scarecrow by Richie Tankersley Cusick
• What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat
• Small Favors by Erin Craig
• Gothictown by Emily Carpenter
• She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
• This Cursed House by Del Sandeen
• I’ll Be Waiting by Kelly Armstrong
• Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong
• Black Wicket by Bea Northwick
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
• Raise the Blood by Nenia Campbell
• Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
• Never Whistle at Night (Anthology

Movies Mentioned:

• Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
• Blood on Satan’s Claw
• The Wicker Man
• The Witchfinder General
• Incantation
• The Wailing
• The Langoliers
• Midsommar
• The VVitch
• The Blair Witch Project
• Exhuma
• The Medium
• La Llorona
• When Evil Lurks
• His House
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Hereditary