![]() What’s the dividing line between dark fantasy and folk horror? To my mind both labels could apply to this tantalising little novella which deals with a mythical kingdom off the coast of a dying Welsh seaside town, the eponymous High Fields. ![]() The Queen of the High Fields, by Welsh writer Rhiannon A Grist, is out on 8 February 2022. Not so: there are indie presses over here, too, which are consistently putting out high quality novellas, and this year Luna Press (based in Scotland) offers instalments #7 – #12 in their appealingly packaged Luna Novella series. But it can be easy to feel that this is largely a US-based movement, and that the UK lags behind in short-form fiction. ![]() ![]() T he novella form is having a comeback: so many of the exciting horror titles of 2021 have been short, punchy narratives put out by smaller presses. ![]()
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