There’s a new page here on the A Year In The Country website called “A definition of hauntology, its recurring themes and intertwining with otherly folk and the exploration of a rural and urban wyrd cultural landscape” (or “Hauntology and the Wyrd Landscape” for short).
It’s a revised and extended version of a chapter in the A Year In The Country books that gives a background to and explores the rise of interest in hauntology, folk horror, the further fringes of folk and rural and urban wyrd culture.
It includes amongst other things writing about: Bob Fischer’s The Haunted Generation, Folk Horror Revival, Weird Walk, Adam Scovell’s concept of urban wyrd, Ghost Box Records, Rob Young’s Electric Eden, Children of the Stones, The Owl Service, Sproatly Smith, The Rowan Amber Mill, The Hare And The Moon, The Wicker Man, acid/psych folk, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Robert Macfarlane’s exploration of the “eerie landscape”.
It can be viewed via this link or by clicking the “Hauntology and the Wyrd Landscape” link in the top menu of the site.
