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Apr. 15th, 2020 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreToday, I am spinning while listening to an audiobook of The Hound of the Baskervilles and I have two thoughts:
1) Can we count HOUN as an early work of folk horror? For me, the extremely vague definition of what makes a work folk horror* is that it is rooted in a specific place (usually but not always a rural place) and that said place is haunted by time and history. I think HOUN does that.
2) I had forgotten until it was too late that Sir Henry has spent most of his life in the States and Canada. Having to listen to a British audiobook reader voicing an American character saying the words "au revoir" is perhaps the worst thing I've ever heard.
*This is an idiosyncratic definition. If your definition of folk horror is different, that's fine. It's an extremely nebulous genre.
1) Can we count HOUN as an early work of folk horror? For me, the extremely vague definition of what makes a work folk horror* is that it is rooted in a specific place (usually but not always a rural place) and that said place is haunted by time and history. I think HOUN does that.
2) I had forgotten until it was too late that Sir Henry has spent most of his life in the States and Canada. Having to listen to a British audiobook reader voicing an American character saying the words "au revoir" is perhaps the worst thing I've ever heard.
*This is an idiosyncratic definition. If your definition of folk horror is different, that's fine. It's an extremely nebulous genre.
