Reading about Hauntology, of which I have done a fair amount recently (see my last post), one is struck by the persistence of cultural themes associated with what we would tend to call folk horror. Wikipedia's entry for folk horror defines it as "a subgenre of horror film and horror fiction that uses elements of folklore to invoke fear and foreboding. Typical elements include a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition, folk religion, paganism, sacrifice and the da
