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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 · 18h
Another thoughtful review from Taskerland, this time on Crossroads Issue 2! Thanks to @taskerland.bsky.social
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Field Report, Crossroads, Issue 2
Field Report is an infrequent series tracing physical zines that move in the same circles as this blog: Folk Horror, Forteana, Weird History, and Occultism. It takes the place of my earlier Zine Co…
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 19h
One half of the Crossroads editorial team is once again hosting an online folk horror movie marathon. You should get in on this! I will absolutely be there.
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
God and 13 years later it's so much worse
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Drink on the left is called The Severed Sun, which incidentally was one of our #FolkHorrorFriday movies a few months back!
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's our tentative October #FolkHorrorFriday lineup (subject to the whims of Tubi availability): 10/2 The Sacrament (2013) 10/9 The Harbinger (2022) 10/16 The Invitation (2015) 10/23 Suspiria (1977) 10/30 Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sorry I missed tonight's movie (might rewatch on my own tomorrow night). Sadly, I will miss next week's too (family trip) but I REALLY hope you all enjoy The Harbinger, which is such an interesting film. #FolkHorrorFriday
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We bought the doll head and clown mug for our home collection
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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
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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
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I still haven't seen Widow's Bay!
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I may not be able to join tonight because I have a date with some Halloween-themed cocktails. Will check in, though. #FolkHorrorFriday
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A little over four hours now!
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you! ❤️
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And this reminded me I also hadn't ordered the second issue of Crossroads yet, now rectified (print on demand from Lulu if you're not in the US, see quoted thread 👇) bsky.app/profile/cros...
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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.
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John Wilkinson @john-wilkinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great new reading material from @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social
Crossroads folk horror in the United States issue 2
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Lord Jubalon Flux @lordflux.co.uk · 30/09/2026
@backwoodgoat.bsky.social nice illustration in @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social #2
Drawing of a young person in the woods along with various monsters
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Were they all in good shape? Let me know if any got banged up
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Cullen Wade @cullenwade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Got my contributor copies of @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social issue 2! (Plus a few more to trade for chewing gum if you’re holding) Can’t wait to dig in! #horrorsky #booksky #zinesky #zine #folkhorror #hiphop #cassetteculture
Three copies of “Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States” issue 2
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you 😭
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The Ⓐtomic Ⓔlbow @garbageskeleton.skin · 26/09/2026
If issue 1 was any indication (and I’m willing to bet that it is) then Issue 2 is gonna be REAL GOOD. You gotta get in on this.
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scary again, naturally 🎃 @renandpen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
preordered Crossroads Issue 2 to add to my collection! got the sticker pack bundle, because of course (stickers!!!). I loved Issue 1 (and, did I mention, the stickers?!!!), can’t wait for this.
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Cullen Wade @cullenwade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Feeling in excellent company with this late-alphabet bunch of degenerates!
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@clevercrow.bsky.social
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elli Wade is a horror writer, mother, and the Editor-in-Chief of Night Terror Magazine. Under her brand devoted marrow, Elli explores the grotesqueries of consumption, hungers of devotion, and the beauty of decay. She is currently drafting her debut folk horror novel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now bringing you the final reveal of issue 2 contributors:
Purplish black background with white rustic font:
CROSSROADS
FOLK HORROR IN THE UNITED STATES
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ISSUE 2 CONTRIBUTORS 
PART 4 >>>>>
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
CROSSSROADS: THE TASTE CATS LOVE
Tabby cat loafing on a coffee table and licking the edge of a zine issue
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pre-order issue 2 (plus the amazing stickers illustrated by @shaenon.bsky.social). Copies of issue 1 still available if you don't have it yet.
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm glad too! So happy it was a rewarding first watch for you!
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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
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you all for joining tonight! See you again next week (October!!!) for The Sacrament! #FolkHorrorFriday
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So good. I have only seen it the once
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The other one. Ti West
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is eternal
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I knowwww I spaced them out a little so it wouldn't be too matchy matchy
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Especially in the movie theater scene. The bluish light cast on everyone except for the red-striped popcorn container. #FolkHorrorFriday
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Glad you loved it! I just find it so bewitching.
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's our tentative October #FolkHorrorFriday lineup (subject to the whims of Tubi availability): 10/2 The Sacrament (2013) 10/9 The Harbinger (2022) 10/16 The Invitation (2015) 10/23 Suspiria (1977) 10/30 Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh good call
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That fringed wrap skirt is 🔥 too #FolkHorrorFriday
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Maybe I DID see it. Buried memory
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How old school? I don't think I saw this scene there. Remember a lot of House tho
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The current Tubi copy is actually not terrible. I've watched much worse transfers of this film #FolkHorrorFriday
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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love her clocking all the obvious red flags before shrugging like "what the hell" #FolkHorrorFriday
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