My thanks firstly go to my parents, Jan and Keith, for their constant support of my work. Without the freedom they afforded me during my Masters degree especially, I wouldn’t have been able to explore many of the ideas which would finally make up this book. It is to them that this book is dedicated.
Thanks as well to Lauren Burke for being there during the early stages of this book whilst it was driving me totally mad. I’d have probably gone loopy (a lot more quickly…) without your support. You’re in these pages too.
Folk Horror has become a huge beast in the last few years and this has been down to a number of key figures, all of which deserve thanks for various reasons. Thank you to my fellow Folk Horror Revival administrators, especially Andy Paciorek, Darren Charles, Jim Peters, Grey Malkin and John Pilgrim. My thanks to the organisers of the many conferences and events which have allowed me to explore several of the ideas in this book including: Eamon Byers and Craig Wallace for ‘A Fiend in the Furrows’, James Riley and Yvonne Salmon for ‘The Alchemical Landscape’, John Reppion and Leah Moore for ‘Spirits of Place’, Jen Wood and Erin Lafford for ‘Spectral Landscapes’ and Jim Peters for ‘Otherworldly’ at the British Museum.
My thanks in particular to Dr. Robert Macfarlane for his constant and much appreciated academic support and friendship throughout everything I do. His words are a constant inspiration and played heavily on several chapters in this book. Thanks as well to Dr. Holly Rogers, Dr. Giles Hooper and Dr. John McGrath for keeping me on the straight and narrow with my actual PhD research and work.
Thank you to 92 Degrees Coffee and Unit 51 in Liverpool for copious caffeine during the writing of this book and thanks to Volcano Coffee and The Rosendale in Dulwich for the coffee and alcohol during its editing.
I would not have got this far with my work without the support and help of many people in my digital life. My thanks to John Atkinson at Auteur, Dr. Brian Baker, Jeff Barrett at Caught by the River, George Bickers, Gary Budden, Arianne Churchman, Peter Guy at Get Into This, Justin Hopper, James Jackson at The Times, Sharron Kraus, Eddie Proctor, Laura and Mike Robertson at The Double Negative, Dr. Katy Soar, David Southwell, Sam Wigley at the BFI, all of the team at Small Cinema Liverpool and the many other people who have supported, shared and got my work out there in the last few years.