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folk horror en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A subgenre of horror fiction that uses elements of folklore, such as a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition or paganism such as human sacrifice.
This means connecting disparate forms of media through their shared summoning of these themes and ideas rather than looking at the commercial reasons behind certain cycles of film and television; it is instead about what is attempting to be unleashed that is at the heart of Folk Horror and not simply the decisions of money men tapping into a lucrative popularisation of the occult, the paranoid or the ‘wyrd’.
2017, Adam Scovell, Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange, Leighton Buzzard: Auteur, →ISBN, page 8: