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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Lindsay King-Miller

by | Sep 27, 2018 | Interviews, The Fiends in the Furrows | 0 comments

Lindsay KingMiller’s nonfiction writing has appeared in Glamour Magazine, The Guardian, Them.us, Vice.com, and numerous other publications.  She lives in Denver with her partner, their daughter, and two very spoiled cats. She is the author of Ask A Queer Chick (Plume, 2016).
THE FIENDS IN THE FURROWS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FOLK HORROR
“The Fruit”

What is your favorite season and why?
Could any self-respecting horror fan not say “fall”? Harvest time is cozy, sure, but it also has a dark underside—there’s a reason “you reap what you sow” often sounds like a threat. Fall is when we come face to face with which of the seeds in our garden we’ve really been tending to. Plus, sweaters and scary movies.

What drew you to Folk Horror?
I didn’t set out to write folk horror specifically, but I wanted to write about the border between the human world and the “natural” world, which—although today we often use “natural” as a code word for correct or desirable—is far from benign. Folk horror tends to inhabit those borders, and especially the things that cross them.

What does Folk Horror mean to you? How would you describe it to someone?
I think Folk Horror is probably the root of all horror, and maybe even the root of all storytelling. The oldest stories are probably the ones we tell to keep our children out of the woods, or away from the river, at night. That’s what Folk Horror is, to me—an exploration of how close, and how dangerous, the natural world really is.

What is the most Folk Horror thing you’ve seen/encountered in your community?

I’m a city girl, so Folk Horror is something I only encounter in small doses, outside of my everyday life. Once I was in a tiny, rural town in Mexico, looking for what was supposed to be an ancient ruin, and I realized that all the stray dogs I saw were running, and they were all running in the same direction. I still wonder what they were running toward, or away from.

What writing projects do you have next?
Oh, my ongoing writing project is to try to figure out which of a dozen different ideas I want to focus on. I have several short stories in the works, some essays about parenthood, and a novel about lesbians and werewolves. And eight or nine other things. I’m really bad at being a Virgo.

THE FIENDS IN THE FURROWS

The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror is a collection of nine short stories that hew both to the earthy traditions and blaze new trails in Folk Horror.

Fans of Folk Horror, as well as those unfamiliar with it, will find horrors galore in these stories. Themes of rural isolation and insularity, paranoia, mindless and monstrous ritual, as well as arcane ceremonies clashing against modern preoccupations run through these stories.

Nosetouch Press is proud to bring The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror to horror enthusiasts everywhere.