Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

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Primarily working in the television industry, he has provided graphic props for the likes of Poldark, Sherlock, Doctor Who, and the 2020 BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dear reader do yourself a favour and just read the collected works of the master of Folk Horror, Arthur Machen. A lot of the stories picked up the theme of Christianity coming into conflict with the pagan gods, and I enjoyed how sometimes they came to an easy truce. R James (‘ The Ash Tree’), Saki (‘The Music on the Hill’), Walter de la Mare (‘All Hallows’), and Thomas Hardy (whose ‘The Withered Arm’ is possibly a contender for my favourite story in the book) – tales previously unfamiliar to me, such as ‘The Sin-Eater’ by Fiona Macleod and ‘Cwm Garon’ by L. And while the hustle and bustle of modern life means we often think ourselves far removed from a world haunted by pixies and ghouls… Are we really that far from horror?

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I think they work nicely together, a couple of late 19th century tragic romances full of folkloric doom! Con semejante nómina era difícil que algo saliera más pero hay también otros autores menos conocidos con relatos de mucha calidad.Hi Nicholas - we're a little different from other crowdfunding sites - we do take the money up front and hold it (safely) until the project is funded. Outside of his television work, he makes and sells his own darkly folkloric artwork, often lino cut and printed by hand.

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This collection is carefully presented with remarkable hand-carved illustrations to accompany each story.Damnable Tales is an illustrated collection of classic short stories drawing upon the haunted landscapes of ‘Folk Horror’, a now widely-used term originally applied to a series of British films from the late 1960s and 1970s: Witchfinder General (1968), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), and The Wicker Man (1973). However, even after vowing to only read good books from now on, I soldiered on as I thought maybe the remaining stories would pull it all back.

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Robin’s Rath’, where a wealthy heiress looks to build on the ancient woodland on her newly purchased property, with predictably unsuccessful results. Relatos ambientados en aldeas remotas, castillos abandonados e islas perdidas donde habitan extraños personajes, cultos paganos y dioses malévolos. Last weekend, I gathered together all 23 of my completed lino blocks, and printed a fresh set onto plain white paper (all of my prints til now have been on the lovely textured handmade 'lokta' paper, this isthe paper that all of the pledge reward lino prints will be printed onto). EXCEPT for the story where they kill a child and sow it’s ground up bones into the soil to provide a good harvest. While I enjoyed both tales, it was ‘Man-Size in Marble’ that leaped out to me while exploring her other work.e. white supremacist) identity has replaced a genuine cultural identity and knowledge of this among a lot of white British, particularly English, people. At the moment, I'm working to a September deadline to complete all of the lino print illustrations and hand everything over to Unbound to begin work on the publication.