A review by nicktomjoe
The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror by Christine M. Scott, David T. Neal

4.0

Some real appreciation of the genre, and at times a vivid exploration of rural living. My favourite has to be the compelling and brilliantly underwritten “Way of the Mother,” with a genuine bio-horror in “The Fruit” coming a close second. But this is a collection, and some are more attractive to me than others, some feeling a bit too much of a caricature to no effect. There is, however, effective writing in some of these “country folk writ large:” creepiness and comedy combine in “Pumpkin Dear,” and in the bleak twists of the final story on power and influence in a snake handling church which is reminiscent of adult Roald Dahl and none the worse for that.