Isolation is the cause of many the happenings in folk horror, it allows communities to exist in a manner alien and often more brutal in comparison to the wider world and The Village of C is no exception. A cursed village, it is the worst place for anyone to enter accidentally and when Mike and Sam stumble into it on the hunt for their missing sister and daughter respectively, they soon discover the legend that holds it locked in time.
The Village of C includes those familiar tropes of folk horror: an isolated community, strangers in their midst, a skewed belief system, and the land as a character. The latter is exceptionally well-drawn adding to the atmosphere in terms of the boulders which enclose the village, the forest with its heavy and sickening air, the almost medieval village and its inhabitants as much prisoners as willing residents. It also carried echoes of Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home with a similar 'circular' element to it. If you've read that book, you will understand why the ending feels a little familiar when you get to the end of The Village of C.
The only thing which took me a bit out of the story was the use of some very modern terminology by residents of a village who would not have come across that language, cut off as they are from everyone else. Regardless of that, it's well-paced and compelling and one I didn't want to put down (I finished it over 2 days!)
Highly recommend to all folk horror lovers.
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- Steph EllisReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2024
Atmospheric and Disturbing Folk Horror
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