Waterstones Lincoln is thrilled to present a celebration of folk tales and horror, this October.
Firstly, we will celebrate the brilliant new folk horror collection which Alan Moore called, "a thrilling cache of unearthed diamonds" - Bog People - with the collection's editor Hollie Starling, originally from Lincolnshire. We will be joined by Dr Rory Waterman and Dr Anna Milon to chair this event.
We will take a refreshment break (provided) and you can try your hand at some authentic folk crafts before moving onto the second part of the evening to celebrate Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined.
For the second part, Rory and Anna will be joined by some of the authors who contributed to this collection for readings and conversation around the work they have done to preserve our rich history of folk tales.
Date: Friday 3rd October
Time: 6pm (doors 5.30pm)
Location: Waterstones Lincoln High Street
About the books:-
Bog People: An Anthology of Working-Class Horror
Uncanny and unsettling, wild and wyrd, the ten stories in this collection showcase the best of folk horror. Set in and across England, they celebrate working-class culture and history, and - sharp as a guillotine blade - reveal the real monsters that stalk our green and pleasant land. Featuring a story from the collection's editor, HOLLY STARLING, the author of The Bleeding Tree.
'Atonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this' - ALAN MOORE, author of The Great When, V for Vendetta and Jerusalem
'An absolute delight' - ADAM S. LESLIE, author of Lost in the Garden
'Deeply unsettling and totally radical' LALLY MACBETH, author of The Lost Folk
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined
This book brings together new, original fiction and poetry by fifteen of Lincolnshire's most celebrated writers, all taking inspiration from the county's rich, diverse, and evolving heritage of folk tales. Here readers will find boggarts, rogues, princesses, witches, demons, old rites and customs. Mostly, however, the stories and poems in this book are concerned with how our cultural heritage might add colour to our lives.
Edited by DR RORY WATERMAN and DR ANNA MILON
