The photographs in this collection document the rural eerie, occasional glimpses into the uncanny and subtly sinister aspects of the countryside and its villages I’ve encountered on my various itineraries. Nature-as-nightmare is one of the main motifs and insights of the folk horror genre; as well as being a picturesque, cosy, even healing environment, it discloses a rural assemblage that can be equally full of danger, oddness, and inscrutable things and meanings.
Silkstone, South Yorkshire.
Kintra, Isle of Mull.
Peak Forest, Derbyshire.
Alstonefield, Derbyshire.
Wetton, Derbyshire.
Birchover, Derbyshire.
Chelmorton, Derbyshire.
Boulmer, Northumberland.
Hope, Derbyshire.
Mupe Bay, Dorset.
Thornhill, Derbyshire.
Endon, Staffordshire.
Padley Gorge, Derbyshire.
Brafferton, North Yorkshire.
Toad stone. Millstone Edge, Derbyshire.
Druid's Stone, Edale Moor, Derbyshire.
Tideswell, Derbyshire.
St Mary, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
Eckington, Derbyshire.
Eckington, Derbyshire.
Eckington, Derbyshire.
Yearsley Woods, North Yorkshire.
Brafferton Spring Wood, North Yorkshire.
Jacob's Ladder, Edale, Derbyshire.
Langsett Reservoir, South Yorkshire.
Heath, Derbyshire.
Castleton, Derbyshire.
Wetwang, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Ulrome, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Bryn Du, Anglesey, Wales.
Aldborough, North Yorkshire.
Tortoise rock. Grindslow Knoll, Derbyshire.
Trent and Mersey Canal, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Langsett Reservoir, South Yorkshire.
Brafferton Spring Wood, North Yorkshire.
Wetwang, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Barlow, Derbyshire.
Great Hucklow, Derbyshire.
Greenhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Churchyard portal. Holy Trinity, Loddon, Norfolk.
Escape from Hob Moor. York, North Yorkshire.
Uisken, Isle of Mull.
Kelso, Scotland.
Peak Forest, Derbyshire.
Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, West Yorkshire.
No swimming in the infected swamp. Whirlow, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Hope, Derbyshire.
Eighteenth-century guide stoop. Beeley Moor, Derbyshire.
Dale Dyke Reservoir, South Yorkshire.
Back Edge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Barber Booth, Derbyshire.
Aberffraw, Anglesey, Wales.
Tideswell, Derbyshire.
Horror tree. Lyndhurst, Hampshire.
Keeper of the egg stall. Dunwich, Suffolk.
Wyming Brook, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Peak Forest, Derbyshire.
Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire.
Stacey Bank, South Yorkshire.
Give way to toads. Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Thetford Forest, Norfolk.
Wetwang, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Flash, Staffordshire.
Brandside, Staffordshire.
Shop Farm, Brandside, Staffordshire.
Not the bees. St Olave, York, North Yorkshire.
Endon, Staffordshire.
Stanage Edge, Derbyshire.
Wormhill, Derbyshire.
Ardtun, Isle of Mull.
Bamford, Derbyshire.
Stone head. Craig, Isle of Mull.
Windmill, Derbyshire.
Horror tree. Stowlangtoft, Suffolk.
Greenhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Heath, Derbyshire.
Green Moor, South Yorkshire.
Rivington, Lancashire.
Alderley Edge, Cheshire.
Ovine watcher. Aldborough, North Yorkshire.
Barber Booth, Derbyshire.
Tideswell, Derbyshire.
Bamford, Derbyshire.
Thetford Forest, Norfolk.
Carsaig, Isle of Mull.
Grimacing sugar beet. Aldborough, North Yorkshire.
Ardtun, Isle of Mull.
Opium poppy. Petersfield Physic Garden, Hampshire.
Snowden Hill, South Yorkshire.
Octopus tree. Gormire Lake, North Yorkshire.
Mushroom stone. Grindslow Knoll, Derbyshire.
Lochbuie, Isle of Mull.
Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire.
Bamford Edge, Derbyshire.
Eyam, Derbyshire.
Glebe garden, St Peter, Heysham, Lancashire.
The Roaches, Derbyshire.
Blackbrook Wood, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Middleton-by-Youlgrave, Derbyshire.
Middleton-by-Youlgrave, Derbyshire.
Middleton-by-Youlgrave, Derbyshire.
Alderley Edge, Cheshire.
Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire.
Ardalanish, Isle of Mull.
Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire.
Nidd Gorge, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.
Help is at hand. Bamford, Derbyshire.
Aldborough, North Yorkshire.
Moonrise. River Ure, Aldborough, North Yorkshire.
Newby Hall, Skelton-on-Ure, North Yorkshire.
Endon, Staffordshire.
Talacre, Flintshire, Wales.
Mam Tor, Derbyshire.
Edale, Derbyshire.
Trent and Mersey Canal, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire.
Barlow, Derbyshire.
Hardwick Hall, Doe Lea, Derbyshire.
Peak Forest, Derbyshire.
The Roman Road, tramped by the ghosts of ancient legionnaires. Hope, Derbyshire.
Buck Beck Beach Bench, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.
Tideswell, Derbyshire.
Goyt Valley, Staffordshire.
Mulgrave Woods, North Yorkshire.
Bamford, Derbyshire.
Shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Langsett Reservoir, South Yorkshire.
Toad's mouth, Hathersage, Derbyshire.
Tissington, Derbyshire.
Upper Padley, Derbyshire.
Barlow, Derbyshire.
Derwent, Derbyshire.
Edale Cross, Pennine Way, Derbyshire.
Barnsley Main Colliery, South Yorkshire.
Lindisfarne, Northumberland.
Lindisfarne, Northumberland.
Lindisfarne, Northumberland.
Football fan. Great Hucklow, Derbyshire.
Little house on the prairie (moor). Upper Booth, Derbyshire.
Cork stone. Stanton Moor, Derbyshire.
Bradwell, Derbyshire.
Tortoise rock, Millstone Edge, Derbyshire.
Aldborough, North Yorkshire.
Coach and Horses, Derwent Edge, Derbyshire.
Birchover, Derbyshire.
Ladybower Reservoir, Derbyshire.
Great Hucklow, Derbyshire.
Mushroom stone. Brimham Rocks, North Yorkshire.
Snail cupboard. Aldborough, North Yorkshire.
Buxton, Derbyshire.
Flash, Staffordshire.
Bradwell, Derbyshire.
Kinder Scout, Derbyshire.
Patriots. Youlgrave, Derbyshire.
Gormire Lake, North Yorkshire.
Birchover, Derbyshire.
Pig rock. Woolpacks, Kinder Scout, Derbyshire.
Woodhouse, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Heath, Derbyshire.
Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire.
Hipperholme, West Yorkshire.
Heaton, Staffordshire.
Youlgrave, Derbyshire.
Tideswell, Derbyshire.
Face stone. Woolpacks, Kinder Scout, Derbyshire.
Windmill, Derbyshire.
Gormire Lake, North Yorkshire.
Hope, Derbyshire.
Newby Hall, Skelton-on-Ure, North Yorkshire.
Grindleford, Derbyshire.
Peak Forest, Derbyshire.
Boulmer, Northumberland.
Paul. Barlow, Derbyshire.
Oughtibridge, South Yorkshire.
Ringinglow, South Yorkshire.
Tin Mill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Parkwood Springs, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Terraced Gardens, Rivington, Lancashire.
Monk Bretton Priory, Lundwood, South Yorkshire.
Wharncliffe Woods, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Aldborough, North Yorkshire.
Trent and Mersey Canal, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Toad stone. Fyfield Down, Avebury, Wiltshire.
Bradwell, Derbyshire.
Green Moor, South Yorkshire.
Endon, Staffordshire.
Sheep crossing. Raven's Low, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Eckington, South Yorkshire.
Middleton-by-Youlgrave, Derbyshire.
Tideswell, Derbyshire.
Pet ceme-tree. Woodhouse, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Kimberworth, South Yorkshire.
Kimberworth, South Yorkshire.
Kimberworth, South Yorkshire.
Wetton, Derbyshire.
Ruanaich, Iona.
Parkwood Springs, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Barnby Dun, South Yorkshire.
Family portrait. Rivington, Lancashire.
Mam Tor, Derbyshire.
Brandside, Staffordshire.
Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire.
Castleton, Derbyshire.
Stanton Moor, Derbyshire.
Snowden Hill, South Yorkshire.
Oxspring Dam, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Burbage Moor, Derbyshire.
30. Grindleford, Derbyshire.
Hope, Derbyshire.
Hartington, Derbyshire.
Hartington, Derbyshire.
Hartington, Derbyshire.
Face stone. Ramshaw Rocks, Staffordshire.
Dale Dyke Reservoir, South Yorkshire.
Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Castleton, Derbyshire.
Endon, Staffordshire.
Sorry. Heather, Leicestershire.
Bradwell, Derbyshire.
Meltham, West Yorkshire.
Wetwang, East Riding of Yorkshire.