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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States

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Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Online shop reopens late September. Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's #FolkHorrorFriday! Tonight at 9pm ET, press play on THE HARBINGER.

Poster for The Harbinger. A shadowy creature that looks like a plague doctor lurks in the snowy woods

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Update: #FolkHorrorFriday

Two more drinks. One is a tall clear glass with dead tree design and the other is a porcelain mug that looks like a creepy clown

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very sorry I am not there but look #FolkHorrorFriday

Creepy cocktails at a bar. One glass looks like a doll head with a cracked skull. The other is a tumbler with skulls and graves on it

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hi everyone, it's #FolkHorrorFriday and today we are watching the 2013 film The Sacrament. As always, the movie is free to stream on Tubi, and we all press play at 9pm ET.

Poster for The Sacrament. A stark photo of a wooden chair and a wooden table with a plain white cross standing in the background. The text says Live as one. Die as one." Presented by Eli Roth and directed by Ti West.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@clevercrow.bsky.social

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@scaryasfolk.bsky.social

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, and various zines with unpronounceable names like Hwaet! and Abhardtach. He writes about folk horror on Instagram and is co-editor of this zine.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@theharvestmaid.bsky.social

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.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

JT Wilkins is that wild-minded creator who turns imagination into a whole vast universe. A cartoonist, storyteller, and visionary with a taste for the bizarre, JT blends sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, and straight-up mind-melting surrealism into art that attacks your visual senses.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@cullenwade.bsky.social

Cullen Wade is a writer, horror critic, musician, and high school teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. He is the author of S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema (McFarland Books, 2025), and is a staff writer at NightTide Magazine.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kevin E. Travers is an armchair folklore and ghost story enthusiast living in Philadelphia, where some say he is destined to be the next Chicken Man variant. His work has been published hither and thither online.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sully is an AuDHD zinester, artist and general knower/disseminator of facts about crabs. They make zines and various other types of art from their soft cave in Everett, Washington, under the watchful eyes of two darling cats.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Now bringing you the final reveal of issue 2 contributors:

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CROSSSROADS: THE TASTE CATS LOVE

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This one:

Poster for The Harbinger. Silhouette of a plague doctor superimposed on a blue snowy wood scene

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BUT extra hyped tonight because my copies of issue 2 arrived today. They are real and they are beautiful. They ship out October 10th. #FolkHorrorFriday

A hand holding two small digests. The top one is a lurid green and purple with an image of a woman burying her face in her hands

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dressed for success #FolkHorrorFriday

Messiah of Evil t-shirt

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow is #FolkHorrorFriday and we are watching one of my favorites: MESSIAH OF EVIL. I will be wearing my T-shirt and watching my brand new Bluray, but the movie is also free to stream on Tubi. We press play at 9pm ET.

Poster for Messiah of Evil. A woman with black hair and pale skin cries a single tear of blood. A bloodted moon is in the background. A sinister group of people dressed in black threaten with knives and grasping hands

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Daemon Schlegel is a PNW born-and-raised artist. Being a trans man, he has taken his art to a new level: creation of the self. Blending body horror, creatures, and gothic themes, his work often aims to highlight and amplify the trans -- and human -- experience, just like all things in nature, the act of finding oneself is rarely pretty, and sometimes rather gruesome.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@emmaruthrundle.bsky.social

Emma Ruth Rundle is a multi-disciplinary musician, artist, and poet living in Portland, OR. Her debut book of poetry The Bella Vista was released in 2025, and her new album These Killing Times was released in September 2026.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Steph Rivers is an artist based in beautiful Athens, Georgia. She welcomes penpals interested in folk horror, roadside oddities, and other regional curiosities.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kristine Potter is an artist whose work explores masculine archetypes, the American landscape, and the cultural tendency to mythologize the past. She has received numerous national and international awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grand Prix Image Vevey, and the Hariban Prize.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@stinasdemons.com

Stina Patton is an artist, writer, reviewer, and lover of the strange, surreal, and unsettling. She currently resides in Hell where she is kept sane by her many, many books and not as many cats.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Eleni Mandell is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter known for her smoky vocals, sharp lyrical storytelling, and genre-blending style. With over a dozen albums to her name, including Miracle of Five and I Can See the Future, Mandell's songs explore love, motherhood, loneliness, and longing with elegance and wit. She's also a founding member of the acclaimed harmony quartet, The Living Sisters.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Janel Leader is a nurse out of Westchester County, NY. Horror and the occult is something she always had an interest in, especially historical horror. A budding writer, she recently has begun sharing her creative works online, writing stories at the crossroads where history, horror, folklore and romance collide.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@strange-ghosts.bsky.social

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 menagerie 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.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are back today with issue 2 contributors part 3:

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@aghughes.bsky.social

Alan Hughes is an artist and teacher from north Georgia. When not drawing monsters, he's talking about them on the Lovecraft eZine podcast.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Katy Horan is an illustrator and interdisciplinary artist living and working in Austin, Texas. Pulling from a spectrum of influences, including folklore, history, film, and her own life, she creates ambiguous narratives that exist in the space between beauty and darkness, familiarity and strangeness.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social

Justin Hopper makes books, records and performances, as well as a podcast and other projects, based around the written or spoken word. A lot of it is related to interests in landscape, psychogeography and hauntology, as well as an interest in the literary and artistic occult in early 20th-century London.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@yourblackunc.bsky.social

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.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GreenLady is a psych-folk trio hailing from Gravesend, Brooklyn who blend traditional Americana, '70s British folk revival, and classic rock into songs drawn from lore, legends, and the darker corners of nature and the human soul. Their self-titled debut album was released in November 2025, and they continue to perform throughout the NYC area and surrounding regions.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rachel Green is a researcher and photographer who grew up in Tennessee. She now lives in Seattle, WA with her two cats and pet husband.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@shaenon.bsky.social

Shaenon K. Garrity is a cartoonist and writer best known for Narbonic, Skin Horse (cowritten with Jeffrey C. Wells), the Willowweep Manor graphic novels (with art by Christopher Baldwin), and Steam (with art by Emily Holden). She lives in Berkeley with a cat, a man, a boy, and some chickens.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fogbarrow is artist Colette Clancy, a watercolor and digital illustrator and anthropologist from the hills of Appalach. When she's not painting cryptids and poisonous plants, she can be found foraging mushrooms and hanging out with her snake Persephone. >>>>

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Wednesday! It's time for Part 2 of our introductions to the new issue's contributors.

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Brendan Elliott is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. He is a painter, musician, and writer. He runs a tape label Totem Wilds where he also releases the quarterly zine The Totem Papers.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Benjamin Dewey is a professional comic book artist and illustrator whose work includes Beasts of Burden with Evan Dorkin, and The Autumnlands with Kurt Busiek. He lives in Portland, OR with many guitars, fewer cats, and a very supportive wife named Lindsey.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Julyan Davis is an artist and storyteller who lives in Asheville, North Carolina and has painted the American South for more than thirty years. HIs work is exhibited internationally, and is in many public and private collections.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jason Collins is a freelance writer covering horror, pop culture, and storytelling. His work focuses on how media reflects cultures, and how myth emerges from the intersection of both.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@backwoodgoat.bsky.social

Gustav Carlson is an Ozarks-based comic author and illustrator. Gustav's work has an emphasis on the places off the beaten path, whether that's terrestrial or celestial. His comics include Tourist Unknown, Eve of the Ozarks, and his current dirt road fantasy horror series, Backwood Folk.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Justin Burning is a writer and musician with a life-long love of all things horror and heavy metal. He lives in the desert expanses of Phoenix, Arizona with his wife, two daughters, and dachshund.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@theonetruejames.bsky.social

James Bojaciuk began reading before he was three years old, and never stopped. This inescapably led him to become an author, editor, and journalist. His work has appeared in many periodicals as well as publications from Observe Books, George Washington University, and 10th Wall Productions.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Augustina Boateng
Augustina Boateng is a science writer whose work explores the intersections of environment, culture, and social justice.

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Over the next week, we'll unveil the full list of contributors to Crossroads issue 2, The Devil Has the Best Tunes. Here's the first batch:

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#FolkHorrorFriday

wint @dril
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
2:06 PM - Sep 29, 2013

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Interesting tidbit from Wiki: #FolkHorrorFriday

The film, perhaps the first Western film to be shot in Ukraine following the collapse of the Soviet Union, was a difficult and troubled one. The

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kitty seems to dig #FolkHorrorFriday

Backside of a cat sitting on a bed. Before him is a television screen showing a nun ready to jump from a cliff

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tomorrow! We are watching DARK WATERS (1993) for #FolkHorrorFriday. The movie starts at 9pm ET and is free to stream on Tubi.

Movie poster. Black, red, brown painting of shrouded figures holding crosses on a ridge. Beneath the cliffs is a large, monstrous face

Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At that stage of proofing when we keep optimistically adding FINAL to the file name (it is never final).