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Bog People
  • Published: 16 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529977691
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download

Bog People

A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror

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Hardback
3 Feb 2026
EBook
16 Oct 2025
Audiobook
16 Oct 2025
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A rousing and riotous anthology of folk horror tales by some of Britain’s best-loved working-class writers: A.K. Blakemore, Daniel Draper, Emma Glass, Mark Colbourne, Mark Stafford, Hollie Starling, Jenn Ashworth, Natasha Carthew, Salena Godden and Tom Benn.

'Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this’ ALAN MOORE

Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices: A.K. Blakemore, Daniel Draper, Emma Glass, Mark Colbourne, Mark Stafford, Hollie Starling, Jenn Ashworth, Natasha Carthew, Salena Godden and Tom Benn.

A phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old stew made of severed body parts; a bigoted woman working at an ossuary, the bones she watches over her only remaining friends; three siblings who set out to scatter their father's ashes, a man none of them could stand; and a hag stone sitting in the pocket of a witch.

Uncanny and unsettling, wild and wyrd, the ten stories in this collection showcase the best of folk horror. Set in and across England, they celebrate working-class culture and history, and, sharp as a guillotine blade, reveal the real monsters that stalk our green and pleasant land.
  • Published: 16 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529977691
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
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Praise for Bog People

The working class understand horror, often sharing its postcode. They know about crossed knives on the tea-table, and hagstones, and the people in the puddles. Bog People is a thrilling cache of unearthed diamonds, black, brilliant and beautifully cut, none of them rough, born of the lower strata where the pressures are greater. Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this

ALAN MOORE

A masterful collection that captures the raw, unsettling essence of folk horror and its working-class roots

MAXINE PEAKE

This collection is everything folk tales and folk horror should be. It's angry, disturbing, and shines a light on the obvious problems in society that mainstream media continues to ignore

TABITHA STANMORE, author of Cunning Folk

Folk horror at its most feral and furious. Just as it should be

CHARLIE COOPER

Deeply unsettling and totally radical it tells of the horrors of our age in complex and haunting ways that will stay with the reader long into the future

LALLY MACBETH, author of The Lost Folk

A brilliant and eclectic collection of tales that illuminated all the darkest corners of my mind. I’m thrilled Bog People has lead me to find a selection of my new favourite writers

KIRI PRITCHARD-MCLEAN

An absolute treat - a giddy tumble into wild and diverse British folk-horror. This feels like the countryside of my childhood, before every thatched cottage had a Mercedes in the driveway. It's raw, earthy (in every sense of the word) and darkly fun - you'll come away with dirt under your nails and woodlice in your hair

ADAM S LESLIE, author of Lost in the Garden

An anthology that is ambitious, entertaining and full of surprises… Not one of the book’s 10 tales is a disappointment, and several are exceptional in terms of originality and impact

Morning Star

Where the collection excels is the winding path it takes through horror, folklore and the gothic; through families, oral history and grief… the collection remains an urgent reminder that this form and genre must be nurtured

Guardian