Folk Horror: Still Lurking in the Dark Corners of the Mind...
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We found the body in 1978. I was over at Andy’s house. Andy’s family lived out in a rural Cheshire backwater. The family owned an old, isolated farmhouse, with some parts of their home dating back to the seventeenth century. It was set in its own acreage and surrounded by woods and fields. As you can imagine, it was a good place for twelve-year-olds to hang out and have fun, and I loved visiting there. The bottom end of the property was bordered by the Trent and Mersey Canal which had been completed two hundred years before (we sank milk bottles with BB guns in there); there were woods nearby (and we shot at anything that moved
Folk Horror: Still Lurking in the Dark Corners of the Mind...
Folk Horror: Still Lurking in the Dark…
Folk Horror: Still Lurking in the Dark Corners of the Mind...
We found the body in 1978. I was over at Andy’s house. Andy’s family lived out in a rural Cheshire backwater. The family owned an old, isolated farmhouse, with some parts of their home dating back to the seventeenth century. It was set in its own acreage and surrounded by woods and fields. As you can imagine, it was a good place for twelve-year-olds to hang out and have fun, and I loved visiting there. The bottom end of the property was bordered by the Trent and Mersey Canal which had been completed two hundred years before (we sank milk bottles with BB guns in there); there were woods nearby (and we shot at anything that moved