Oct 17, 2024
Ghost of an Idea:Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia by William Burns. Book Review.
As the number of books about Folk Horror and Hauntology is considerably increasing, focus falls now upon a quest for a unique selling point – the tone, the angle, which cultural examples will be concentrated upon. With Ghost of an Idea the aspect of Nostalgia is a point of interest. There is only so much that can be said about the ‘Unholy Trinity’ of folk horror films or Jacques Derrida’s origin…
