Blood in the Bricks

Tales of the city redolent with ritual and drenched in dread. Folk Horror is primarily associated with isolated settings and weird beliefs. Traditionally the isolated setting is rural, but our cities have been around for a long time too, their histories constructed layer upon layer, their secrets long kept and buried deep. And there are other types of isolation than geographical remoteness: housing schemes and suburbs, gilded business districts and gated communities, industrial wastelands and crumbling tower blocks... Who knows what our old bricks were made of or what lies beneath our brightly lit pavements? Who knows what superstitions have been passed down the generations and who knows what goes on behind the locked doors of the community centre? Editor Neil Williamson has assembled a cadre of gifted writers to explore these chilling issues and much much more. Contents: Down Street – James Bennett Danse Macabre – Kim Lakin Hagstone – Tracy Fahey Gerädert Fühlen – Steve Toase The Inverse Nurse – Ian Whates Open Studios – E Saxey Escape Notice – Tim Major Larking – Phil Sloman When the Blood Runs Dry – Lyndsey Croal A Tiding – Timothy J Jarvis Our Sister of Blackthorn – Dan Coxon One of The Rotten Ones – Matthew Hopkins The Rope Swing – Penny Jones A Pinch of Salt – Joanna Corrance A Body's Got to Have Hope – Angela Slatter The Call – James Everington Fulfilment – Harvey Welles & Phil Raines Extraction – Don Redwood Flip – Ray Cluley