edited by Candice Bailey and Gavin Lees

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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 2: The Devil Has The Best Tunes

When Robert Johnson met the Devil at the crossroads and sold his soul for musical talent (allegedly) he created an indelible connection between American music and the infernal. Our second issue explores folklore and folk horror in all genres of music, from murder ballads and the blues, to hip-hop and dungeon synth.

This second issue of Crossroads contains the following features:

• Blues Fallin’ Down Like Hail: from the Editors

• Satanic Sound Waves: Occult Influence in American Music, by Maria Huls

• Inherited Hauntings: Black Folktales, Memory, and the Roots of Folk Horror in American Music, by Augustina Boateng

• Crossroads Conjurer: Aunt Caroline Dye and Hoodoo in the Blues, by Jason Collins

• A Haunted Womanhood: Blues Singers and the Women of Sinners, by Janel Leader

• Wailing from the Waves: Folklore in the Music of the Decemberists, by Kevin E. Travers

• My Favorite Murder (Ballads), by the Editors, Katy Horan, Eleni Mandell, GreenLady, Emma Ruth Rundle, and Justin Hopper

• Old Folks Allow the Devil is Afraid of Music: Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John, by James Bojaciuk

• Don’t Look in the Trees: The Blackened Metallic Heart of Appalachia, by Justin Burning

• Inwardly They Are Ravening Wolves: Ethel Cain and the Tumult of Devotion, by Elli Wade

• Strange Circuits: Folk Horror in North American Synthesizer Music, by Brendan Elliott

• Triple 6 Is My Mindstate: Three Folk Horror Perspectives on Occult Memphis Rap, by Cullen Wade

Designed by Christine M. Scott and featuring art from Gustav Carlson, Colette Clancy, Julyan Davis, Benjamin Dewey, Shaenon K. Garrity, Rachel Green, Haint, Katy Horan, Alan Hughes, Maria Huls, Stina Patton, Kristine Potter, Steph Rivers, Daemon Schlegel, Sully, and J.T. Wilkins.

Published 2026. The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is keen to share this exciting new series with our readers. These copies are in new condition.

96-page perfectbound pamphlet with a cover by Christine M. Scott.

* PRE-ORDER: Please note that this item is a pre-order. Any items ordered together with it will not ship until November 2026. *