Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

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Sometimes (more often in the older stories) these lead to a denouement in which the protagonist either witnesses or is drawn into a specific bizarre happening, but in others the point seems to be more to leave the reader with a general sense of foreboding or unease without any specific event at the conclusion. A richly illustrated anthology which gathers classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. So wicked witches, bad fairies, and the restless dead be damned, for those who are looking to fill up their folk horror fiction shelves, Damnable Tales is a must-have. I'm a big fan of Richard Wells' artwork and have a few of his prints on display, so I was interested and gratified to see that he had put together a collection of short horror stories and illustrated them.

There's a bit of everything in here from great demonic figures, to ominous brooding buildings, to strange and twisted village rituals. I believe this is generally subjective on the part of the reader, and not always because a bad selection is made. He is one of the ‘talking heads’ on the Severin films' documentary, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror’.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

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). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

And yes some of the stories where indeed good, but these where all stories I had read before so this anthology was not bringing me anything new and exciting.