The Lovecaftian Thing a Day (2018) No.298: We Don’t Go Back

Folk Horrorists in recent years have recognised some significant points of intersection between Folk Horror and Lovecraftian horror - I have contributed in a small way to occasional online debates  around this issue, and last year’s The Horsingdon Transmissions were my own attempts at opening up the space in which Folk Horror, Urban Wyrd, Speculative Horror, and Lovecraftian Cosmicism overlap and co-exist (as something of an aside, I’m laying claim here to having established a new category of horror with The Horsingdon Transmissions: Suburban Wyrd).

In any case, I’ve finally found time to start reading  Howard David Ingham’s We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror, which contains a short (but instructive) section on Lovecraftian Folk Horror - indeed, the relative brevity of this section would be one of my criticisms of the book (along with the fact that it is otherwise a little overlong - probably on account of it stretching the definition of what constitues Folk Horror to encompass films whose inclusion here is, perhaps, questionable); these minor points aside, We Don’t Go Back is a thoroughly enjoyable read, and a useful starting point for those wishing to investigate the field of cinematic Folk Horror.