Table of Contents for WFQ: Folk Horror

Earlier this week, we shared the cover for our upcoming Folk Horror installment. We’re humbled by the positive reception it received and we’re working hard to get the book out and into your hands. Today, we received the last of our contributor proof approvals, and we’re in the last sprint of getting our contracts in place, and fine-tuning the manuscript for print and electronic distribution.

Before we drop the Table of Contents on you, we wanted to highlight some of the pieces from our growing group of contributors (61 this time!):

• In “The Old Ways” by John Paul Fitch, a priest discovers his flock have another, secret agenda—one that goes against all he believes.
• Peter Rawlik shows how new horrors supplant old horrors in “There are no Ghosts in Dunwich.”
• Mala Jay Suess’ “The Night Dancer of Harringen” guides us on a journey over several decades of encounters with a feathery, white spectral figure.
• In David Barker’s “The Raving Ones,” a man hunts for an artifact in the rubble of an abandoned house belonging to an old friend. Little does he know he isn’t the only one searching.
• With “California Winds” Chelsea Arrington introduces us to a vengeful twelve-year-old girl who wants nothing more than to burn—within and without.
• Shayne Keen’s “Off to See the Green Man” tells the story of a young woman and a little girl seeking a propitiatory audience with the ancient mythological figure.
• In “Corner Store,” Elizabeth Getty provides a cautionary Midwestern fable about the dangers of generosity from strangers.

This is just a small teaser of what’s in store for you in this installment. To see who else joined us this time, here is the issue’s full Table of Contents:

1. Acknowledgements
2. Foreword: Putting the “Folk” Back in Folk Horror by Shayne K. Keen
3. Four Stars, Would Book Again by Kurt Fawver
4. Corner Store by Elizabeth Getty
5. The Púca by Frank Coffman
6. I Don’t Do Black Magick by Denise Dumars
7. Lung Cancer Nessie by Zoltán Komor
8. Garummy and the Queezle by Robert Jeschonek
9. We Give You Our Best, Our Most Cherished by Jill Hand
10. Know No Fear by M Ennenbach
11. Off To See The Green Man by Shayne K. Keen
12. Based on a True Story by Robert J. Sodaro
13. The Incubus’ Paramore by Sumiko Saulson
14. Sanctuary by J. Edward Zuleger
15. There are No Ghosts in Dunwich by Peter Rawlik
16. Night of the Living Artichoke Queen by Don Webb
17. Fire in the Sky by Glynn Owen Barrass
18. Love Child by Manuel Arenas & Jay Sturner
19. Cunning by Erin Banks
20. The Harvest Dance by Simon Bleaken
21. Hog Hunting by Lamont A. Turner
22. Géac Yoresung by Adam Bolivar
23. The Makeshift Men are Raised by Scott J. Couturier
24. The Clatter of Dishes by Erick Mancilla
25. The Lynching on 512 Road by Hannu Afere
26. Out of Darkness—A Familiar Voice by Melanie Crew
27. The Woodwose by Phil Breach
28. A Rat’s Duty by Rebecca Buchanan
29. The Rus by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
30. My October Bride by K.A. Opperman
31. The Night Dancer of Harringen by Mala Jay Suess
32. Come Back by Brandon Barrows
33. All Hallows’ Feast by Ashley Dioses
34. The Raving Ones by David Barker
35. Stations by John M. F. Colton
36. Warehouse by Duane Pesice
37. Wanting by Erica Ruppert
38. The Witches by Michael Thomas Ford
39. Riding the Winds, The Wild Hunt Brings Winter by Rahul Gupta
40. Shuck by Tony Bradbury
41. The Old Ways by John Paul Fitch
42. When They Come by Lisa Morton
43. There was a Bird, a Folksong by Hayley Arrington
44. Resurrection by Sarah Walker
45. Waves of Grass by Richard Leis
46. Thirteenth Child (The Birth of the Jersey Devil) by Jason Morton
47. The Chairs by Rhys Hughes
48. An Episode in Frenton by John Linwood Grant
49. King Dong by Andy Joynes
50. Dumb Supper by Russ Parkhurst
51. Dancing the Fairy Reel by Roger Keel
52. The Metal Man by Maxwell I. Gold
53. When Did He Go? by Frank Floyd
54. “I Shall Tell It Once, Then Never Again.” by Silvatiicus Riddle
55. California Winds by Chelsea Arrington
56. Lunchtime in Blood Creek by John H. Howard
57. The Well by Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito
58. Dognapped by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
59. The Creaker by Mark McLaughlin
60. New World, Old Religions by Chris J. Karr
61. Angel Bright, Sign of Death by Can Wiggins
62. Cernunnos by Christopher Ropes
63. About the Authors

Stay tuned for our release announcement, when you can grab a copy and experience for yourself the tales and poems behind each of these titles.