New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2023. The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins, canonical texts and thinkers, the crucial underlying themes of nostalgia and hauntology, and identifies new trends in the field. From the Contents: 39. Strange Permutations, Eerie Dis/locations: On the cultural and geographic specificity of Japanese Folk Horror (James Thurgill).