Quaint Folk
folk horror meets cottage gore, from a Hugo Award-nominated horror author
$23.46
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
The Wicker Man meets The Twisted Ones in Bitter Karella’s Quaint Folk—a queer folk horror novel that peels back the idyllic veneer of a perfectly quaint island town to reveal the rot beneath.
From the outside, it looks like Jessica has the perfect life. She’s a stay-at-home mom, married to a man with a respectable job, raising a son they adore. Her family is as wholesome as all-American pie. But deep down, Jessica knows there’s something wrong with her; she …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780356528328 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0356528324 |
| Author: | Bitter Karella |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Orbit |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 285g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Quaint Folk remakes The Wicker Man with Todd Haynes behind the camera, a heaving Hieronymus Bosch acid trip that skins the idyllic flesh off the folk horror subgenre and paints the reader’s face in its blood – Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Devil Inside
About The Author
Bitter Karella
Bitter Karella (he/she/they) is a two-time Hugo nominee and creator of the microfiction comedy account The Midnight Society. Beloved by the horror writing community and quoted in the Telegraph, The Midnight Society successfully crowdfunded three collections and is currently being adapted as an audio podcast.
Karella writes gonzo psycho-sexual body horror with a grotesquely humorous edge. Their short story “Low Tide Jenny” was a winner of the Brave New Weird award for best new weird fiction.
Karella lives in northern California with their partner, tarantula, and two cats.
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