On Monday 25th September 2017, Darren Charles and Andy Paciorek of Folk Horror Revival will be getting interviewed on BBC Radio Tees.
Tune in to the Bob Fischer show between 2 and 3 pm (UK time) to hear wyrd myriad ramblings about things most strange and folk horrorish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_tees
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To mark the Autumn Equinox, Folk Horror Revival has again made a seasonal charitable donation of all profits from Wyrd Harvest Press books to a Wildlife Trusts nature conservation project. The winner of the poll as voted for by group members this time was Shropshire Wildlife Trust’s Pine Marten Project.
Happily we have handed over £280.83 to this worthy cause.
Thank You to everyone who voted and especially to those who bought or contributed their time and work freely to our books 
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Expires 18 September 2017 at 11:59 pm.
There has been much wonderment about the phrase ‘folk horror’. Whilst many thought that it had originated in 2010 with Mark Gatiss and Jonathan Rigby in the television documentary ‘A History of Horror’ in relation to the three British films now frequently collectively referred to as The Unholy Trinity. Those movies being Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man.
It was with reference to one of those films that an earlier use of the term folk horror was used. Talking about his own film, the aforementioned wonderful film Blood on Satan’s Claw, director Piers Haggard used the term ‘folk horror’ to describe it in a 2003 interview in Fangoria magazine.
Recently though on the social site Twitter a couple of users have discovered earlier use of the name.
Firstly author Johnny Mains discovered two uses from either side of the Atlantic decades earlier.
In 1982 in America, Laura Stewart refers to illustrator Beverly Brodsky’s work as “folk horror” specifically her work for The Golem.
In 1975 the British press, namely The Guardian (who years later published Robert McFarlane’s excellent essay on the English Eerie ) made use of the description in
Caroline Tisdall’s review of an exhibition by the phantastic romantic painter Henri Fuseli at the Tate Gallery. 
However another author Sarah K. Marr discovered a far earlier use of the term.
The English Journal referred to superstition and ‘folk horror’ in their pages in 1936.
So is this the first conjunction of the words folk + horror or there earlier usages left to discover???
If you know of any earlier use or any interesting references to it from the 20th Century and before, please let us know in the comments section below.
An illustration from De Materia Medica by the Greek physician Dioscorides (1460)
It is September.
Summer is drawing to its end.
The nights are closing in.
Leaves are on the turn and primed to fall.
Joyously run through the fallen leaves on the Kalendar Heath this month with Nick Drake, Dinah Washington, Simon and Garfunkel, David Cain, Captain Beefheart, Justin Hayward, Lou Reed, Earth, Wind and Fire, Jez Butler, David Whitfield, Fiona Apple, New Model Army, Monty Python, Carole King, Tindersticks, Edith Piaf, The Flaming Lips, The Waterboys, David Sylvian, The White Stripes and John Martyn. You will hear extracts from “Ashley and Ashley” the September story from “Wyrd Kalendar” due to be published in October this year by Wyrd Harvest Press.
On behalf of all Revivalists and the FHR Administration Cabal, we would like to extend Congratulations and our Very Best Wishes to Kat and Matt Peach on their wedlock. This is (to our knowledge) the first Folk Horror Revival wedding. ❤
Kat and Matt first met on Facebook via the Folk Horror Revival group and in time their friendship blossomed to love across the ocean. Both Kat and Matt went on to become FHR Administrators and very valued contributors to our Wyrd Harvest Press books and our British Museum event. (You may have met them greeting guests and attendees.)
In addition to FHR and that loving business, Kat and Matt have worked together creatively within the music spheres as Wandering Eldar, The Stone Tapes and the force behind Hare’s Breath Records
Blessings and Best Wishes to you both. ❤
If any other Revivalists have found love through our group, please let us know over at – www.facebook.com/groups/folkhorror/
The Kalendar Heath is ready to be explored this August, but beware, the willows are on the move.
Celebrate Lammas with the likes of Magnet, The Owl Service, Beacon Street Union, Bebel Gilberto, The Tiger Lilies, Love, Clinic, Carole King, Funkadelic, Hall and Oates, Grizzly Bear, Kingston Trio, Micky Newbury, Jacco Gardner, Julie London, David Cain, Lost Trail, The The and Isla Cameron.
This month’s exploration of the Kalendar Heath includes extracts from this month’s short story "The Weeping Will Walk" written and performed by Chris Lambert. The story will be published as part of "Wyrd Kalendar" a collection of 12 short stories written by Chris Lambert and illustrated by Andy Paciorek to be published in October 2017.
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this is not a picture by Howard David Ingham
this is not a picture is a collection of eight short ghost stories, by Howard Ingham of these here parts, probably best known to revivalists for his excellent series of film reviews, We Don’t Go Back. The tales here are linked by pieces of art – a photograph, a TV play, a song – each of which is central to the plot.
Of the stories here, the one that stands out as being of most interest to folk horror fans is “The Austringer (1969)”, which revolves around a lost BBC play, bringing to mind the once seen and now half-remembered, haunting quality the likes of Penda’s Fen and Robin Redbreast had before being made accessible again by BFI re-releases. The tale cuts back and forth between the unscrupulous collector who unearths a copy from a deceased acquaintance’s collection and the play itself, with the two inevitably meeting. The excerpts from the TV play are particularly spot on, evoking the atmosphere of the supernatural plays of the era.
My personal favourite is “An envelope”, where a man grieving for his disappeared girlfriend comes into possession of an envelope full of polaroids depicting horrifying scenes, seemingly from a parallel reality where something has gone very wrong. Each photograph is described in detail, sketching a horrific world, leaving you to fill in the details with your worst nightmares. It’s made all the weirder by the fact that it was written in the author’s sleep, like he unconsciously tapped into some horrendous parallel world. More speculative horror than folk horror perhaps, but deeply unsettling.
The striking thing about this collection is its humanity, the way the characters relate to each other and the world around them, indeed one of the tales – “So I caught up with Dennis” – derives much of its uneasiness from a changed relationship between two old friends. No matter how weird the situation is, the characters and their actions always remain believable.
A thoroughly engaging collection of tales. You can pick up a copy here.
Review by Scott Lyall
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