Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States

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Our online shop will reopen in September. Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.

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ISSUE 2 PROPOSALS We will give preference to contributors from the USA. We value contributions from own voices and those with marginalized identities. Any questions? Please send us a DM
ISSUE 2 PROPOSALS All our contributors will receive: •• $50 payment upon publication • Two copies of the printed zine • Additional copies at cost Deadline for essays and art is: July 1t 2026 Publication will be late-September/early-October Link to proposal form is in our bio.
ISSUE 2 PROPOSALS We're looking for articles and art that explore folk horror themes in American music, and music in American folk horror. Think: • Murder ballads • Robert Johnson • Dungeon synth • Sinners • Ethel Cain • The Silver John stories • or whatever you think would fit the theme...
ISSUE 2 PROPOSALS This will be our music issue, The Devil Has The Best Tunes" Want to contribute? ISSUE 2: THE DEVIL HAS THE BEST TUNES CROSSROADS FOLK HORROR IN THE UNITED STATES The image shows a placeholder front cover: a purple and green image of a blonde woman raising her arms up to the sky.
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White text on a black background with an image of a graveyard at the head: ANNE VUAGNIAUX Anne Vuagniaux is an Associate Professor of art history at the City University of New York. She has published on the occult, art, and architecture of sixteenth-century America. Her short story "The Field's Edge" appeared in Myth & Lore's Spun Tales anthology in 2023.
White text on a black background with a white icon of a farmer hoeing a field: KEENE SHORT Keene Short is the author of the book Frightful Harvest: Food, Landscape, and Agriculture in Folk Horror Films, out ow from McFarland Books, in addition to several creative publications.
White text on a black background with a white icon of a crow landing on the name: CHRISTINE M. SCOTT Christine M. Scott has been a professional graphic designer, website developer, and brand consultant for more than thirty years. She is the creative director and copublisher of Nosetouch Press and Analog Ghosts and has coedited seven anthologies, including the folk horror anthology trilogy The Fiends in the Furrows. She is the graphic designer for the Hugo-nominated magazine, The Deadlands. As an artist and craftsperson, sever of her handcrafted items were included in Game of Thrones: The Compendium, printed by Chronicle Books for HBO.
White text on a black background with a white icon of an open book: SCARY AS FOLK Scary As Folk is a writer, editor, and calligrapher who lives on top of a hill in the Pacific Northwest. His work has been published by Centipede Press, Fantagraphics Books, Avatar Press, and various zines with unpronounceable names like Hwaet! and Abhartach. He writes about folk horror on Instagram and is co-editor of Crossroads.
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White text on a black background. A pair of vampire teeth appear to bite into the last letter of the name at the top: EDEN ROYCE Eden Royce writes for the adult, YA, and children's markets, and her work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications. She has won the Bram Stoker, the Shirley Jackson, and Ignyte Awards and she is a Walter Dean Meyers Award Honoree for outstanding children's literature.
White text on a black background. A creepy white hand is reaching out to touch the last letter. STEPH RIVERS Steph Rivers is an artist based in beautiful Athens, Georgia. She welcomes penpals interested in folk horror, roadside oddities, and other regional curiosities.
White text on a black background: MARC PALM (the M has a devil's tail) Marc Palm has worked at various movie theaters and video stores his whole life, relishing in obscure and beautiful films. Meanwhile, he has self-published several horror and action comic books and zines, illustrated posters and even articles for MAD magazine.
White text on a black background with an icon of a mountain peak: KIMBERLY LINDBERGS Kimberly Lindbergs is a Northern California-based writer, researcher, artist, and astrologer whose work bridges film history with class-conscious politics and Western esotericism. As a woman navigating a speech disability, she brings a rigorously personal lens to questions of resistance and representation. She has written for Turner Class Movies, Cineaste, Publishers Weekly, Arrow Video, Cauldron Films, and Second Sight Films. She is also a contributor to the book Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990, and her art appeared in the 2024 pulp anthology Garbology.
White text on a black background with a wolf icon at the top: TAISHA KOSTER Taisha Koster is an artist and aspiring writer who creates to spread story, lore, and human/nature connections through visual, written, and spoken word. Experimenting over the years in various creative ways to express herself, Taisha has found joy in watercolor paintings, digitally painted artworks, and experimenting with linocut. Her works explore the themes of identity, folklore, story of place, nature, and the occult.
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White text on a black background with an icon of a farmhouse: MATTHEW JACKSON Matthew Jackson is a writer and podcaster who's been covering entertainment for nearly 20 years. His writing on horror films and books appears frequently at Fangoria.com, Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central, Pop Heist, and more outlets. He is the host of The Scares That Shaped Us, a podcast exploring the formative horror stories that shaped the best genre writers in the world, and he's a proud active member of the Horror Writers Association. He still lives in Texas Chain Saw Massacre country.
White text on a black background with an icon of the phases of the moon: MARIA HULS Maria Huls is a Cincinnati-based illustrator, printmaker, and practicing witch who creates original illustrations inspired by magick, mythology, horror, occultism, and folklore. At her one-woman-owned shop, Strange Ghosts, you will find a managerie of the magickal and the macabre in the form of posters, prints, stickers, and a variety of other adornments. Maria travels across the Midwest to attend artist and oddities markets, where she sells her work in person.
White text on a black background with an icon of a pentragram: ALAN HUGHES Alan Hughes is an artist and teacher from North Georgia. When not drawing monsters, he's talking about them on the Lovecraft eZine podcast.
White text on a black background, with blood dripping from the top of the page: HAINT Haint is a North Carolina-based designer currently obsessed with "Cassette Futurism" aesthetics and analog style works. They are currently working on mixed media projects that serve their immediate community, with a focus on creating physical and digital third spaces as places for people to gather safely.
White text on a black background beneath a corn icon: ANGELA ENGLERT Angela Englert is a freelance writer based in Dallas-Fort Worth. You can find reams of her media criticism online at The Cultural Gutter, Biff Bam Pop, the Fox Spirit blog, and the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival podcast.
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White text on a black background under an icon of a witch's cauldron: MICHAEL CERLIANO Michael Cerliano is a doctoral candidate in rhetoric at Texas Woman's University whose work focuses on critical theory, visual rhetoric, and the weird. He has written about the tension between witchcraft and Enlightenment rationalism in Piers Haggard's The Blood on Satan's Claw for Horror Homeroom and on H.P. Lovecraft and hauntology in a collection from Routledge.
White text on a black background under a banjo icon: ELIZABETH BROADBENT Elizabeth Broadbent is the author of Blood Cypress (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2025), Ink Vine, and Ninety-Eight Savors (both Undertaker Books, 2024). A neurodivergent journalist with bylines in The Washington Post, Insider, and TODAY! Parents, she's written for ADDitude for over a decade. She was also an eight-year staff writer for Scary Mommy, where she wrote about the intersections of parenting, mental health, neurodivergence, feminism, and politics. Her essay, "A Mother's White Privilege," is used by anti-racism programs in universities and activist organizations worldwide. Broadbent has appeared as a guest on BBC World News, MSNBC, CNN, and NPR's "All Things Considered."
White text on a black background underneath a motorcycle icon: PATRICK BARB Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. His published works include the sci-fi/horror novel Abducted, the dark fiction collections The Children's Horror and Pre-Approved for Haunting and the novellas The Big One, The Nut House, Night of the Witch-Hunter, and JK-LOL. He is the editor and publisher of the anthology And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel and runs the monthly interview column "Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author" in Shortwave Magazine. His 2023 short story "The Scare Groom" was selected for Best Horror of the Year Volume 16.
White text on a black background under a white icon of a goat: CANDICE BAILEY Candice Bailey is the co-editor of Crossroads and writer for the folk horror blog The Harvest Maid's Revenge, where she has scribbled under the name Rowan Lee since 2020. A native Alabamian with an MFA in poetry, she has lived all over the Southeastern United States and spent nearly a decade in South Korea. Her writing has been published in Plainsongs, Collider, and Shirley Jackson Studies.
White text on a black background, beneath a white chainsaw icon: FRANK ANDREWS Frank Andrews is a Colville Confederated Tribes [Nez Perce Band]/Dine artist working outside of NE Washington with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. He is a multidisciplinary bloody visionary, carrying the flame toward the path of preserving his cultural identity and mental stability. He works with sloppy and precise intent, destroying norms and creating provocative ideas to challenge many who are used to the postulation of what indigenous art should be. He sells his work on his webstore, at art markets, pow wows, and scheduled events. Frank says 'Qe'ciyew'yew' [thank you] and much love to you all.
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