`Author:` Hollie Starling & Various `Availability:` ## Summary [**Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices**](https://shop.weirdwalk.co.uk/products/ww-book-cult-bog-people-by-hollie-starling) ## Key Takeaways ## Quotes - ## Notes **Contributer & editor, Hollie Starling…** "I don’t actually know how all the contributors feel about being called bog people; I hope they don’t mind! The title is an obvious allusion to the ‘great unwashed’, the mud-splattered peasant class of history. But it’s also a metaphor for things submerged. Folk horror is a brilliant genre for exploring what lies beneath, both topographically and psychologically. It’s all about the unruly and unstable landscape, how it seeps communities like rising damp, distorting memory and fuelling superstition." "However, if asked to name the one indisputable keystone of folk horror then I would suggest power. Power becomes unbalanced and gives rise to conflict. So really I can’t think of a better genre to look at class." "To me, folk culture is the expression of ordinary experience. History is written, rather obviously, by the literate. We know that the workers of history existed, toiling people who make up the vast majority of humans that ever lived, but we have to look elsewhere for evidence of them. Folk heritage is a sort of alternative history; stories, traditions, customs and songs that by word-of-mouth persist and transmit through generations. They are at once communal and intimate, dynamic and adaptable, and, in their resistance to erasure, revolutionary. The very endurance of this animate heritage is a counter-power to aristocracy, landowners and corporations. I find that quite moving." > [!info] > ![[BogPeople.webp]] `Concepts:` `Knowledge Base:` [[Folklore]]