If you want to grab one of the Folk Horror Revival t-shirt designs from Hare and Tabor they currently have a sale on now! Lots of other great designs and tea towels available there as well.
20% OFF EVERYTHING in store! Simply use the code HAREANDTABORJAN2018 at the checkout.
http://www.hareandtabor.co.uk/store/p78/Folk_Horror_Revival.html
Presented for your ceremonial sups of many a strange brew, Midnight Mugs
present the Folk Horror Collection.
Enjoy your victuals in reverence to ~
Also available ye olde Folk Horror Revival mug!! Oh, joy of joys !! 🙂
To purchase these fine drinking vessels ~
Contact Steve via the Midnight Mugs Facebook Group
or telephone him on (UK) 07980 871 769
or email at stevie7771@hotmail.co.uk
Mugs are £6 each + postage at cost..
UK postage is £4 for 1-4 mugs (2nd class signed for)
5+ mugs is £8 postage.
Contact Midnight Mugs for information regarding Overseas shipping
Payment by PayPal preferred.
For this season’s charity donation of all the profits from sales in our Wyrd Harvest Press online bookstore ( http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/andypaciorek ) we are happy to donate £368 to Sheffield Wildlife Trust’s Hedgehog Hero appeal (as voted for in a poll by members of this group.)
Folk Horror Revival / Wyrd Harvest Press donate all sales profits from their range of very good books to Wildlife Trusts environmental charity projects, 4 times a year (Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies is recommended as essential reading for all fans of folk horror, especially those entering into discussion or posting on the facebook group as it contains essays and interviews with many leading lights of both classic fh and of the ongoing Revival).
A host of intriguing books are planned for 2018 from a diversity of talents.
Thank you to everybody who supported these very worthy causes by buying our books 
There have been several notes of Thanks issued from the Folk Horror Revial Inner Sanctum over the last few days. I do not need to repeat all individual names but I do need to to echo again the great gratitude to those that made a great year for Folk Horror Revival. There has been difficulties along the way but also a lot of fun, talent, hard work and generosity that has really taken some of us from moments of despair into joy of the creation of something special and sincere. So again Thank You very much, you know who you are or should do.
The year culminated with Winter Ghosts and presented here is a poem written especially for the event by Erin Sorrey. Erin has been a great support to me through the year and FHR journey as well as being a talented element of the Revival itself . Much love, thanks and respect.
Myself (Andy Paciorek), Darren Charles and all the Folk Horror Revival cult wish you all a peaceful, pleasant, prosperous and a somewhat horrifically haunting 2018.
WINTER GHOSTS
The dark sky meets the dark sea,
Guardians of eternity-
A mystic gateway.
From off the ocean, sweeps a spectral howl.
Spirits lost in fathoms and tides;
Are beckoned by the frosty shore.
Nostalgic for decades gone-
The past where they pained and played.
I hear echos in the waves which I cannot explain,
Drowning exclamations and whispers.
The cold nights lure me here;
Strolling aphotic, empty piers.
I raise my collar to the icy wind-
As the awakened dead, wander cliffs and sand.
Words and Image ~ Erin Sorrey
Well apart from Mark Almond and Michael Morpurgo looks like Queen Liz got her gongs wrong again …soooo in Honour of service to Folk Horror Revival, folk horror and nearby grazing fields, we present our New Year Horrors list …
Welcome to The Order of Double Denim
Arise Sirs and Dames … –
Mike Heron of The Incredible String Band
Adam Scovell
Elaine Edmunds of Decadent Drawing
Adam Nevill
Reece Shearsmith
Julianne Regan
Matt Wingett
Mark Goodall director of Holy Terrors
Grey Malkin
Scott Lyall
Paul Guernsey
Robert Curran (Dr Bob)
Sara Dennis
Ashley Thorpe director of Borley Rectory
Candia McKormack of Inkubus Sukkubus
John Linwood Grant
Rebecca Denniff
Kt Mehers of the Folk Horror Revival Emporium
George Firth
George Cromack
Sally-Anne Huxtable
Steve Cannell of the Midnight Mugs
Andrew Pattenden of Hare and Tabor
Bob Fischer
Kit Lewis
Neil Snowdon
Murdo Eason
Christopher Josiffe & Gef the talking mongoose
Andy Roberts
Tim Turnbull
Phil Breach
Chris Lambert of the Black Meadow
Stephen Brotherstone & Dave Lawrence – Scarred for Life
Pongo the Skunk
Also Big Thanks to All FHR Admins, Jonas Hasall, Dan Hunt, Cat Irving, Louse Mitchell, The Mother of Crows, Leásungspell: A Fool’s Tale, La Rosa Hotel, Summerhall, Sharron Kraus, English Heretic, Pye Corner Audio, Esk Audio Ltd, The Soulless Party, The Psychogeographical Commission, Ian Rankin, Ghost Box, Folklore Tapes, The Whitby Bookshop, The Flash Mummer’s Play, Mackie, The Met Lounge & Ballroom, Pagan Dawn magazine, Shindig magazine, Fortean Times, The Hepworth Wakefield, Lintons Printers and to Erin Christina Sorrey again for putting up with my varied woes and bursts of enthusiasm for Folk Horror Revival again over the year.
In Memoriam ~ Rick Parfitt. John Hurt. Richard Adams of Watership Down. Geoffrey Bayldon / The Crowman / Catweazle. George A. Romero. Miguel Ferra. Carol Lee Scott / Grotbags. Adam West / Batman. Peter Sallis. Michael Bond. John Noakes. Deborah Watling. Hywel Benett . Brent Briscoe. Keith Chegwin. Rodney Bewes. Michael Parkes. Leo Baxendale. Jonathan Demme. Warren Frost. Fats Domino. Chris Cornell. Malcolm Young. The Log Lady. Zephyr 
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And all others who have passed into the Choir Invisible. R.I.P
New Year Horrors List -2016 -17
A final reminder that the Hark: Alternative Yule Art Exhibition at the Stuart Duckett Design Store in Whitby runs until 2nd January 2018
Last chance to see this collective of great art in the beautiful coastal town of Whitby this season.
Features such talents as ~
Jeffrey Knopf
Julia Jeffrey – Stonemaiden Art
Marc Beattie
Decadent Drawing
Eolith Designs
Erin Sorrey – Glass Coffin
Charlotte Pettifer
Jennifer Weston
Andy Paciorek
Maria Silmon
Drawing in Dark
John Chadwick
Angela Chalmers
Patricia Shaw
& more (apologies to those not named – rush to get this final hark posted)
artwork – Jeffrey Knopf
Julia Jeffrey
Over the festive period, to be found at Stuart Duckett Design Store, Bar, Gallery and Record Lounge in Whitby, is a rather fine assemblage of dark seasonal art on exhibit. Over the next few days (Yuletide festivities withstanding) we will showcase some of the marvelous artists on show. But go see the work for yourself, they also do some damn fine coffee.
Andy Paciorek is a graphic artist, drawn mainly to the worlds of myth, folklore, symbolism, decadence, curiosa, anomaly, dark romanticism and otherworldly experience. He is fascinated both by the beautiful and the grotesque and the twilight threshold consciousness where these boundaries blur. The mist-gates, edges and liminal zones where nature borders supernature and daydreams and nightmares cross paths are of great inspiration.
Hark is on show at the Stuart Duckett Gallery until 2nd January 2018
Hark @ Whitby 1: Alternative Yule: Decadent Drawing & Eolith Designs
Over the festive period, to be found, at both Stuart Duckett Design Store, Bar, Gallery and Record Lounge and Rusty Shears in Whitby, is a rather fine assemblage of dark seasonal art on exhibit. Over the next few days (Yuletide festivities withstanding) we will showcase some of the marvelous artists on show. But go see the work for yourself, both venues do great coffee and Rusty Shears has gin & cakes and Stuart Duckett has vinyl and also a glam rock art exhibition on show too. ☺
Involved in both the curation and exhibiting her own damn fine fine art is Elaine Edmunds of Decadent Drawing
After a long career as a senior practitioner in NHS mental health Elaine relocated to Whitby at the end of 2010 to focus on developing arts practice.
Her interest in themes relating to Folk Horror started in early life with a happy childhood experience of Hammer House of Horror, Pan and Fontana books, and Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
Her enlightened parents also allowed her to read Man Myth and Magic as a comic. As a social psychiatrist she has always been interested in social anthropology and comparative folklore.
Decadent Drawing was started by Elaine and husband Laurence Mitchell in 2013.
Decadent Drawing bring an alternative approach to the experience of art. Formed at the beginning of 2013 partly as a response to the limitations of art education. They started with monthly themed life drawing sessions which quickly developed into multi-media events including music, film, drama, photography and creative writing but still with a focus on presenting opportunities to draw.
Since February 2015 they have been concentrating on larger events such as Whitby Krampus Run and the Dark Arts series of exhibitions.
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Also exhibiting is Eolith Designs. Though perhaps most noted for sculptural work, Eoilth is exhibiting and selling 3d prints at Whitby this season.
Eolith: from the Greek eos, meaning dawn, and lithos, meaning stone.
Eolith Designs’ sculptures take their inspiration from the dawn and dusk of civilisations; from real and imagined histories, and the world of myth and legend. Bringing together things that were, things that could have been, and things that may be …
Rusty Shears: 4 Silver St, Whitby YO21 3BU
Stuart Duckett Design Studio, Bar & Gallery: 1 Mulgrave Pl, Whitby YO21 3EU
On the weekend of 15th and 16th December 2017, a strange mist will fall upon the coastal town of Whitby. From the sea fret will come haunting sounds and tales and more besides. Here over the coming days we shall in turn usher in the ghosts of winter …
Folk Horror Revival are delighted to round off the Winter Ghosts event with a double bill of eerie films with a Whitby connection.
Firstly we will be screening Michael J. Smith and Maxy Bianco’s chillingly beautiful short film Stranger on the Shore.
“Stranger on the Shore is a new cycle of video-poems by Michael Smith and Maxy Neil Bianco, looking at the bohemian eccentricity of Hastings, the dockside desolation of the Thames Estuary, and the spooky enchantment of Whitby. The films feature an original soundtrack by Andrew Weatherall & Nina Walsh.”
“It’s different by the sea. A bit strange even. Just as the coast lies at the ends of England geographically, it’s also at the edges of our society and the margins of our culture, a place of transgression, eccentricity, colour and romance. Stranger on the Shore is a cycle of video-poems exploring these liminal spaces; this film looks specifically at the spooky enchantment of Whitby, the most romantic evocation of the old idea that it’s grim up North.”
Following this, presented by director Mark Goodall will be the film-
Holy Terrors: A Collection of Weird Tales by Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen was a dark fiction writer who has been unfairly overlooked but who inspires fanaticism by those who know his work. Much more than just Britain’s answer to HP Lovecraft, America’s 20th century master of the macabre, Machen was the writer who constantly saw fantasy and horror in the everyday landscape of Victorian England.
Filmed in Whitby, Goodall’s hauntingly atmospheric movie, finally brings to the screen some of the eerily beautiful tales of this great imaginative writer.
Join us at Winter Ghosts – Tickets and full line up – Here
Winter Ghosts: What is This What is Coming? 7
Winter Ghosts: What is This What is Coming? 6
Winter Ghosts: What is This? What is Coming? 5
Winter Ghosts: What is This What is Coming? 4
Winter Ghosts: What is This? What is Coming? 3
On the weekend of 15th and 16th December 2017, a strange mist will fall upon the coastal town of Whitby. From the sea fret will come haunting sounds and tales and more besides. Here over the coming days we shall in turn usher in the ghosts of winter …
Folk Horror Revival are happy to announce that headlining the music sessions of Winter Ghosts will be Inkubus Sukkubus
Inkubus Sukkubus formed in the summer of 1989, when Candia Ridley and Tony McKormack met at college in Gloucestershire, studying graphic design and photography. They soon discovered they shared interests in witchcraft, magick and folklore, as well as similar tastes in music. The band went on to tour extensively, including Russia, USA, Australia, Mexico, Scandinavia and Europe, and have to date released 22 albums, their latest being ‘Belas Knap: Tales of Witchcraft and Wonder, vol 2’.
Having grown up watching with delight, through barely parted fingers, British films such as Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man, folk horror has both shaped them as individuals as well as inspiring the music they create. They will be joined by like-minded friends to perform an acoustic set of some of their more dark folkloric songs for Winter Ghosts.
Join us at Winter Ghosts – Tickets and full line up – Here
Winter Ghosts: What is This What is Coming? 7
Winter Ghosts: What is This What is Coming? 6
Winter Ghosts: What is This? What is Coming? 5
Winter Ghosts: What is This What is Coming? 4
Winter Ghosts: What is This? What is Coming? 3
Folk Horror Revival & Urban Wyrd Project ⨘ 