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A review by richardleis
Weird Fiction Quarterly: Folk Horror 2024 by Sarah Walker
5.0
Disclaimer: I have a story in this anthology.
The team at Weird Fiction Quarterly keeps putting out new installments of their anthology series of flash fiction and poetry that top the previous one. This time, the writers and poets stepped up their game for the "Folk Horror" edition, pushing beyond the boundaries of the subgenre. There are many highlights. One is a sequence of stories and a poem by Lisa Morton, Hayley Arrington, and Sarah Walker that work extremely well together, whether by design or serendipity. There are other sequences like this, and individual stories and poems that cover every shade of folk horror. Several cross-genre works bring in elements from other genres, like science fiction and fantasy, but the uncanny and ancient feeling of folk horror is always present, and globe-spanning. This atmosphere is captured gorgeously in the cover art by Liv Rainey-Smith and interior illustrations by Sarah Walker.
The team at Weird Fiction Quarterly keeps putting out new installments of their anthology series of flash fiction and poetry that top the previous one. This time, the writers and poets stepped up their game for the "Folk Horror" edition, pushing beyond the boundaries of the subgenre. There are many highlights. One is a sequence of stories and a poem by Lisa Morton, Hayley Arrington, and Sarah Walker that work extremely well together, whether by design or serendipity. There are other sequences like this, and individual stories and poems that cover every shade of folk horror. Several cross-genre works bring in elements from other genres, like science fiction and fantasy, but the uncanny and ancient feeling of folk horror is always present, and globe-spanning. This atmosphere is captured gorgeously in the cover art by Liv Rainey-Smith and interior illustrations by Sarah Walker.