Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

folk horror

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables: folk hor-ror
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A subgenre of horror fiction that uses elements of folklore, such as a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition or paganism such as human sacrifice.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"This means connecting disparate forms of media through their shared summoning of these themes and ideas rather than looking at the commercial reasons behind certain cycles of film and television; it is instead about what is attempting to be unleashed that is at the heart of Folk Horror and not simply the decisions of money men tapping into a lucrative popularisation of the occult, the paranoid or the ‘wyrd’."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does folk horror mean?: A subgenre of horror fiction that uses elements of folklore, such as a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition or paganism such as human sacrifice.

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