We Don't Go Back: a Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror

A project in Swansea City and County, UK by Howard David Ingham
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A handbook to folk horror in film and TV, in Britain, America and the rest of the world.
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Funded: £3,660 of £1,200
Dates: Jun 29th -> Jul 27th (28 days)
Project By: Howard David Ingham
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Latest News

CULT CINEMA UNLOCKED

July 27th - via: kickstarter.com
With 1 hour and 45 minutes remaining, We Don't Go Back has hit its second stretch goal, Cult Cinema: A Guide to Bad Religion on Film!  Thank you all for your support in this campaign. I am really very grateful.   (Read More)

Darkest until the dawn

July 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks everyone for supporting this project. It's done better than I thought and that's down to you, pledging, sharing, and giving feedback. Thank you.  I had time for one last essay before the end. Here's Children of the Corn.   (Read More)

Cover design!

July 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Here is the cover design for We Don't Go Back. The magnificent, ebullient and lucuriously coiffed Steve Horry supplied the illustration.    (Read More)

Stretch Goal Unlocked: On a Thousand Walls (and what that means)

July 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Now that I hit my 200% target, that means that On a Thousand Walls: a Watcher's Guide to the Urban Wyrd is go, and this means that everyone who goes in for £10 or more gets the first companion volume to We Don't Go Back in digital form, which is... (Read More)

Two more films for the list

July 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Writer Daniel Pietersen (of Dirge magazine and others) is right now working on a piece on Béla Tarr's bleak 2011 film The Turin Horse, which will make the book. Meanwhile, the last film I'm adding before the book list is done with will be Lemora: A... (Read More)

Do it anyway

July 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Just a little update today, a breather if you like: an inspirational piece for everyone who's losing faith in themselves: Do it anyway  (Read More)

What the Pit Wants

July 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Today, the essay on 2013 indie horror Jug Face dropped. Check it out here.  (Read More)

Be sure to write this in your copybooks

July 12th - via: kickstarter.com
At the Room 207 Press blog today, here's a piece about early 2000s hauntological gem Look Around You.  (Read More)

not a picture, but an added reward

July 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Since there was a lovely review of my recent ghost story collection, this is not a picture, at Folk Horror Revival I decided that what my backers needed was a copy. So now, everyone who backs (or has already backed) at £10 or more receives a digital... (Read More)

New Essay: Dogged

July 8th - via: kickstarter.com
I wrote about Dogged, a zero-budget community-curated folk horror movie today. Read the essay here.  (Read More)

You must let it grow...

July 7th - via: kickstarter.com
End of Day Nine report: Some Kickstarters make tens of thousands in the first half hour and then fizzle out a bit. This one? This one is one of those ones that have a nice strong start and then grow steadily. And that's OK!  It's been nice to see... (Read More)

Is it a dream? What can it mean?

July 6th - via: kickstarter.com
What it means is that illustrator Steven Horry (Comichaus, Image Comics' Double D) has agreed to do spot illustrations and a cover for We Don't Go Back. More on this as events warrant. In the meantime, here's the essay on Watership Down.  (Read More)

Whistle and I'll Come to You for somewhat less than previously advertised

July 5th - via: kickstarter.com
It's day 7 and the funding is still steadily coming in. But to give the campaign that little kick in the standing stones, I decided to slash the price of the Whistle and I'll Come to You reward, the one where I write you an essay on anything you... (Read More)

From the fields, the furrows, the forest and also probably Twitter

July 4th - via: kickstarter.com
We Don't Go Back has funded on Day 6 of 28 and this makes me happy. But in the immortal words of one of the Great Fictional Satanists, "some things are more easily started than stopped," and so now the push is on to fund the first companion volume,... (Read More)

New addition to list:

July 4th - via: kickstarter.com
I am so very nearly at target. Just (checks) £66 left to go. Will today be the day? In the meantime, there's a new add to the list: Eyes of Fire (1983)  (Read More)

The Witch

July 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
I've posted up an essay about The Witch (2015). See it here.  (Read More)

New Films for the List!

July 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
With the campaign now standing at £966, I've added a handful of films to the master list.  Children of the Corn (1984) The X Files: Jersey Devil (1993)  Jug Face (2013) A Cure for Wellness (2017)  (Read More)

YOUR SECRET POWER OF ATTRACTION

July 1st - via: kickstarter.com
I have added a new reward tier! If the Live Deliciously Package isn't enough to whet your archival appetite, now for £55 I've added Your Secret Power of Attraction, where along with the three books, digital editions and stuff, I will also send you... (Read More)

50% in eight hours!

June 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Eight hours in and the campaign has passed 50% of its target. Thank you all for your support. Let's see how far we can take this.  (Read More)

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