Folk Horror
The Story So Far
Short impact summary
Folk Horror (2017), published by Liverpool University Press, has been cited 22 times. Beyond that, it is used in teaching.
Full narrative
Folk Horror by Adam Scovell was published by Liverpool University Press in 2017. Conceptually, the work connects to Art, Demon, Art history, Literature and History.
OpenAlex records 22 citations. Citations peaked in 2025 with 10 citing works. Notable citing venues include Monstrum, Journal for Cultural Research and Pasavento Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. The citing works include 16 journal articles and 5 book chapters. They come from 10 countries, led by the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States.
In teaching, it is discussed in 1 recorded lecture. Open Library reports a combined count of 3 reading logs and catalog editions.
The latest English Wikipedia check verified 3 article–work reference matches. These are references or bibliography entries, which may include other editions of the same work; they do not measure readership.
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Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325239.001.0001
- OA status: Closed
- OA source: Closed/Unknown
- OA basis: no open-access signals found
Reader reception Books
- Google Books: View listing ↗
- LibraryThing: View listing ↗ 7.8/10
- Commercial: Amazon · Goodreads
Citation context scite
- Total: 1
- Supporting: 0
- Mentioning: 1
- Contradicting: 0
Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of 22 citing works. 45.5% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- Universitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx (1)
- Diponegoro University (1)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1)
- Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (1)
- Wenzhou University (1)
- Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (1)
- Kennesaw State University (1)
- University of Bremen (1)
- Universidad de Salamanca (1)
- Falmouth University (1)
- TU Dortmund University (1)
- Queen's University (1)
- University of Warwick (1)
- Arab Open University (1)
- Engineering Arts (United States) (1)
- University of Brighton (1)
- University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (1)
- Bournemouth University (1)
- Kristopher Woofter (1)
- Fabio Camilletti (1)
- Brooke Cameron (1)
- Diana Ortega Martín (1)
- Larrie Dudenhoeffer (1)
- Marina Capasso (1)
- Michael Niblett (1)
- Muhammad Hamdan Mukafi (1)
- Fran Mateu (1)
- Cristiana Pugliese (1)
- Dawn Keetley (1)
- Isra Daraiseh (1)
- Tymon Adamczewski (1)
- Mark Schmitt (1)
- Maxine Gee (1)
- M. Keith Booker (1)
- Ruth Heholt (1)
- Jan Gerstner (1)
- Chintya Angesty (1)
- Barbara Chamberlin (1)
- Nina K. Martin (1)
- Sellers Johnson (1)
- Jady Jiang (1)
- Ian M. Clark (1)
- Valeria Villegas Lindvall (1)
- Lauren Gilmore (1)
Online mentions & public discourse Open Web
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Community engagement
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Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption
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Video Lectures & Presentations YouTube Transcripts
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Library & Community Access Open Library
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Community Reach:
3 logs/editions ↗
Tracked across Open Library community reading lists and catalog editions.
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Library Classification Subjects:
Horror films, history and criticism Horror tales, history and criticism Folklore
Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex
Authors
- Adam Scovell First Corresponding
Concepts & topics OpenAlex
Citations OpenAlex
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Parentescos alternativos: La perra (2017), de Pilar Quintana y El cielo de la selva (2023), de Elaine Vilar Madruga | Pasavento Revista de Estudios Hispánicos | 10.37536/preh.2025.13.2.2798 |
| 2026 | Religion and Mythology in the Cognitive Matrix: Film Sounds as Music | Palgrave studies in audio-visual culture | 10.1007/978-3-032-29683-2_2 |
| 2025 | Grant Allen’s Folk Horror Mediation of the Science and Spiritualist Debate | Humanities | 10.3390/h15010007 |
| 2025 | The Folk Horror and Crime Fiction Hybrid in Heart of Darkness | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | 10.2478/hjeas/2025/31/2/2 |
| 2025 | Eerie Landscape Materialities. On Vanishing Land by Mark Fisher and Justin Barton | Studia Litteraria | 10.4467/20843933st.25.007.222038 |
| 2025 | The Short and Beyond: Exploring the Folk Horror Tradition in the British Isles | Microtextualidades Revista Internacional de microrrelato y minificción | 10.31921/microtextualidades.n17a1 |
| 2025 | “Some Things in Their Most Natural State Have the Most Vivid Colors”: Folk Horror and Fungal Overgrowth in the “Unholy Trinity” | Unknown | 10.1007/978-3-031-94398-0_3 |
| 2025 | Oh, Bondage, Up Yours! Punk, urban folklore, and folk horror in Huesera (2022) | Monstrum | 10.7202/1120395ar |
| 2025 | Response: On the Possibility of Collective Resistance in Women-Centred Folk Horror Cinema | Monstrum | 10.7202/1120397ar |
| 2025 | The Earth Rises as the Ashes Fall: Intergenerational Trauma, Femininity, and Rage in She Will (2021) | Monstrum | 10.7202/1120393ar |
| 2025 | Witchcraft, ‘Racecraft,’ and the Demonic: Folk Horror in Mariama Diallo’s Master | Monstrum | 10.7202/1120394ar |
| 2025 | When Records Seethe: Folk Horror, Archival Studies, and Madres (2021) | Monstrum | 10.7202/1120396ar |
| 2024 | Ambivalensi Ketakutan dalam Film Incantation, The Medium, dan Keramat: Kajian Penyimpangan Kenikmatan dan Korelasi Pada Abjek Profan | SAWERIGADING | 10.26499/sawer.v30i2.1374 |
| 2024 | La representación del terror rural en las artes audiovisuales | Área Abierta | 10.5209/arab.95387 |
| 2024 | Walking with Witches: Place, People and Papercut Comics | University of Brighton Repository (University of Brighton) | 10.1007/978-3-031-49955-5_4 |
| 2024 | Sergio Citti’s Mortacci (1989) : Death, Orrore popolare, and the Survival of Paganism | Anabases | 10.4000/12w9o |
| 2023 | Women as witness, victim and villain: multifaceted role-play in Fatal Frame II | Journal for Cultural Research | 10.1080/14797585.2023.2238146 |
| 2023 | Nationhood and the (De)Construction of Mythical England in Ben Wheatley’s Kill List | Amaltea Revista de mitocrítica | 10.5209/amal.83665 |
| 2023 | Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth (2021): Folk Horror as Climate Change Warning | Green Letters | 10.1080/14688417.2023.2260813 |
| 2023 | Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, Edited by Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt, University of Wales Press, 2023, 280 pp., $63 USD (pbk.) | Monstrum | 10.7202/1112890ar |
| 2022 | Schaf/Ziege | J.B. Metzler eBooks | 10.1007/978-3-476-05865-2_104 |
| 2021 | “The Landscape Heaved with Unspeakable Terror”: The Weird Presence of the World-Food-System in the Cultural Imaginaries of England and the Caribbean | Unknown | 10.1007/978-3-030-76155-4_4 |