Katie-Ellen
Full Member
- Sep 25, 2014
Aha! Mine could fit there. I read The Loney, and for me it was an 'almost.' Great on atmosphere, I felt he sold the horror short by giving the baby a devilish aspect. Don't want to give too much away, but a normal baby would have made it truly horrific.
But folk realism need not mean horror. The reviewer here has coined it to mean a story that is contemporary, but the modern world sits on top of the numinous ancient, and it's still there, poking through.
One notes too, the publishing history, and that a small publisher went with it first, Tartarus, and then it went to an imprint of Hachette, John Murray.
Folk Realism

But folk realism need not mean horror. The reviewer here has coined it to mean a story that is contemporary, but the modern world sits on top of the numinous ancient, and it's still there, poking through.
One notes too, the publishing history, and that a small publisher went with it first, Tartarus, and then it went to an imprint of Hachette, John Murray.
Folk Realism
