Bog People

'A masterful collection' MAXINE PEAKE<BR>'Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this' ALAN MOORE<BR>'An absolute treat' ADAM S. LESLIE<BR><BR>Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices<BR><BR>A phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old stew made of severed body parts; a bigoted woman working at an ossuary, the bones she watches over her only remaining friends; three siblings who set out to scatter their father's ashes, a man none of them could stand; and a hag stone sitting in the pocket of a witch.<BR><BR>Uncanny and unsettling, wild and wyrd, the ten stories in this collection showcase the best of folk horror. Set in and across England, they celebrate working-class culture and history, and, sharp as a guillotine blade, reveal the real monsters that stalk our green and pleasant land.<BR><BR>Includes writing from: A.K. Blakemore, Daniel Draper, Emma Glass, Mark Colbourne, Mark Stafford, Hollie Starling, Jenn Ashworth, Natasha Carthew, Salena Godden and Tom Benn.<BR><BR>'Deeply unsettling and totally radical' LALLY MACBETH, author of The Lost Folk<BR>'Everything folk tales and folk horror should be' TABITHA STANMORE, author of Cunning Folk<BR>'Feral and furious' CHARLIE COOPER, star of THIS COUNTRY