But now John is on his own, and the Devil may already be among them. Before this year, John Pentecost has assisted his grandfather every fall with redrawing the village’s boundary lines, drawing on memories and rites to protect them from the Devil. Devil’s Day, by Andrew Michael Hurley, features another annual ritual: bringing in the sheep from the moors for the winter.When the town matriarch, the Widow Fortune, invites them to join the annual Harvest Home festival, the Constantines have no idea what kind of evil they’re about to confront. Thomas Tryon’s Harvest Home features the Constantine family, who have moved to the New England countryside from New York City.Like Pete, Will Burgess, the protagonist of Jonathan Janz’s Children of the Dark, is also a high school student with a younger sister and dysfunctional parents who has to defend his town against a deadly threat–in this case, prison escapee the Moonlight Killer plus an ancient, unfathomable horror in the woods.Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wilddraws on the Canadian Métis legend of the werewolf-like Rogarou to tell the story of Joan, whose missing husband Victor seems to have reappeared in the guise of a revival preacher who doesn’t recognize her at all. Folk horror often addresses the concept of something unknown and (at the very least) uncanny under the surface of the people and places we know.
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