The English Substrate: And Other Tales Of British Folk Horror

SOME PLACES REMEMBER. SOME STORIES REMEMBER BACK.The English Substrate collects twenty interconnected tales of folk horror and Lovecraftian dread. From the coastal barrows of Britain to the submerged, cyclopean ruins of Japan, these stories map a world where folklore warns rather than remembers, and where the ancient architecture of the earth is beginning to wake.A GLIMPSE INTO THE SUBSTRATEIn a ruined church on a Bedfordshire hilltop, a woman finds a door where no door should be. On the shore of the Firth of Forth, a teacher witnesses a village's ancient, watery transaction. In the wet fields of Ireland, a farmer confronts a landlord that predates the island itself. And beneath the Pacific, explorers discover that the "English" substrate of our world reaches far deeper than the soil.Beneath the henges, the hillforts, and the hidden ruins of the deep, a patient architecture waits. These are the arrangements that keep the world turning: bargains sealed in blood and cosmic contracts nearing their end.The boundary between the known and the incomprehensible is not a metaphor. It is a distance. And it is shrinking.For fans of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Aickman, M.R. James, and Adam Nevill.

Pagina's: 256, Paperback, Independently published