Ian Whates

Tales of the city redolent with ritual and drenched in dread. Folk Horror is primarily associated with isolated settings and weird beliefs. Traditionally the isolated setting is rural, but our cities have been around for a long time too, their histories constructed layer upon layer, their secrets long kept and buried deep. And there are other types of isolation than geographical remoteness: housing schemes and suburbs, gilded business districts and gated communities, industrial wastelands and crumbling tower blocks...
Who knows what our old bricks were made of or what lies beneath our brightly lit pavements? Who knows what superstitions have been passed down the generations and who knows what goes on behind the locked doors of the community centre?Editor Neil Williamson has assembled a cadre of gifted writers to explore these chilling issues and much much more. Contents:Down Street - James BennettDanse Macabre - Kim Lakin Hagstone - Tracy FaheyGerädert Fühlen - Steve Toase The Inverse Nurse - Ian WhatesOpen Studios - E Saxey Escape Notice - Tim MajorLarking - Phil SlomanWhen the Blood Runs Dry - Lyndsey CroalA Tiding - Timothy J JarvisOur Sister of Blackthorn - Dan CoxonOne of The Rotten Ones - Matthew HopkinsThe Rope Swing - Penny JonesA Pinch of Salt - Joanna CorranceA Body's Got to Have Hope - Angela SlatterThe Call - James EveringtonFulfilment - Harvey Welles & Phil RainesExtraction - Don RedwoodFlip - Ray Cluley