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Crossroads #1: The Long Decade
Crossroads #1: The Long Decade
edited by Candice Bailey and Gavin Lees
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States is a new magazine exploring the themes of folk horror from an American perspective. The publication is edited by the minds behind the popular online folk horror accounts Scary as Folk and The Harvest Maid’s Revenge.
Unlike the U.K., which has been the main focus of many popular folk-horror publications, the U.S. is considered a young country, where ancient tradition has either been trampled by colonization or imported from abroad. The story of America is one of disruption, displacement, and divergence, but it’s also the story of intersection among diverse cultural groups. Like the crossroads found in folklore around the world, the U.S. is a meeting place, a place of fluid boundaries that holds both dark power and powerful opportunity. The aim of our publication is to explore what makes folk horror in the U.S. unique while presenting a breadth of viewpoints from this diverse nation.
Issue 1: The Long Decade
Between 1969 and 1981 the USA experienced “the long decade”—a time of transition from the peace and love of the 1960s to a turbulent era of disillusionment and oppression. Dark images of war, violence, racial tension, and nuclear fallout define this era and set the stage for some of the key works of American folk horror.
This first issue of Crossroads contains the following features:
Rising Sun Goin’ Down: Folk Horror in the ’70s, from the Editors
Dreaming of Nightmares: Ganja & Hess as a Folk Horror Masterpiece, by Eden Royce
Hard to Digest: The Folk Horror Bible of the ’70s?, by Gavin Lees
The American Unholy Trinity of Folk Horror: An Introduction, by Candice Bailey
True Believers and the Cult of the Masculine: Deliverance at the Juncture of Southern Gothic and Folk Horror, by Elizabeth Broadbent
Under a Tyrant Sun: Folk Horror Ritual in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Don’t (Satanic) Panic on the Highway to Hell: Race with the Devil as Folk Horror Harbinger, by Patrick Barb
Where Did All the Shit-Kickers Go? Hillbilly Horror and the Rural Purge, by Keene Short
From Stull to the Satanic Panic: Folklore and Fracture in 1970s America, by Anne Vuagniaux
Fathers of American Witchcraft: Raymond Buckland, Anton LaVey, and the Spiritual Awakening of the ’70s, by Maria Huls
To Be a Witch: Romero’s Season of the Witch and the Spirit of the ’70s, by Micahel Cerliano
What No May May Know Nor Woman Tell: The Sacrifice of Patriarchy in Harvest Home, by Angela Englert
Designed by Christine M. Scott and featuring art from Haint, Steph Rivers, Taisha Koster, Alan Hughes, Kimberly Lindbergs, Frank Andrews, Marc Palm, and Maria Huls.
Published 2026. The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is keen to share this exciting new series with our readers. These copies are in new condition.
80-page perfectbound pamphlet with cover illustration from the 1972 film Deliverance.
edited by Candice Bailey and Gavin Lees
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States is a new magazine exploring the themes of folk horror from an American perspective. The publication is edited by the minds behind the popular online folk horror accounts Scary as Folk and The Harvest Maid’s Revenge.
Unlike the U.K., which has been the main focus of many popular folk-horror publications, the U.S. is considered a young country, where ancient tradition has either been trampled by colonization or imported from abroad. The story of America is one of disruption, displacement, and divergence, but it’s also the story of intersection among diverse cultural groups. Like the crossroads found in folklore around the world, the U.S. is a meeting place, a place of fluid boundaries that holds both dark power and powerful opportunity. The aim of our publication is to explore what makes folk horror in the U.S. unique while presenting a breadth of viewpoints from this diverse nation.
Issue 1: The Long Decade
Between 1969 and 1981 the USA experienced “the long decade”—a time of transition from the peace and love of the 1960s to a turbulent era of disillusionment and oppression. Dark images of war, violence, racial tension, and nuclear fallout define this era and set the stage for some of the key works of American folk horror.
This first issue of Crossroads contains the following features:
Rising Sun Goin’ Down: Folk Horror in the ’70s, from the Editors
Dreaming of Nightmares: Ganja & Hess as a Folk Horror Masterpiece, by Eden Royce
Hard to Digest: The Folk Horror Bible of the ’70s?, by Gavin Lees
The American Unholy Trinity of Folk Horror: An Introduction, by Candice Bailey
True Believers and the Cult of the Masculine: Deliverance at the Juncture of Southern Gothic and Folk Horror, by Elizabeth Broadbent
Under a Tyrant Sun: Folk Horror Ritual in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Don’t (Satanic) Panic on the Highway to Hell: Race with the Devil as Folk Horror Harbinger, by Patrick Barb
Where Did All the Shit-Kickers Go? Hillbilly Horror and the Rural Purge, by Keene Short
From Stull to the Satanic Panic: Folklore and Fracture in 1970s America, by Anne Vuagniaux
Fathers of American Witchcraft: Raymond Buckland, Anton LaVey, and the Spiritual Awakening of the ’70s, by Maria Huls
To Be a Witch: Romero’s Season of the Witch and the Spirit of the ’70s, by Micahel Cerliano
What No May May Know Nor Woman Tell: The Sacrifice of Patriarchy in Harvest Home, by Angela Englert
Designed by Christine M. Scott and featuring art from Haint, Steph Rivers, Taisha Koster, Alan Hughes, Kimberly Lindbergs, Frank Andrews, Marc Palm, and Maria Huls.
Published 2026. The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is keen to share this exciting new series with our readers. These copies are in new condition.
80-page perfectbound pamphlet with cover illustration from the 1972 film Deliverance.
