"No-Man's-Land" I would definitely put into folk horror; it's basically "ermahgerd, the Picts."
Okay, how old is the idea of fairies as the surviving indigenous inhabitants of Britain? I encountered it first in Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard, but Parke Godwin used a version of it set in post-Roman times for Firelord—Kipling alludes to it by calling the Picts "the Little People" in Rewards and Fairies—and Terry Pratchett lampshades it with the Nac Mac Feegle. I've been assuming it's one of the nineteenth-century euhemeristic explanations of folklore that got loose into fiction and became a trope, but I've never actually seen anyone track it.
So yes, I think you would find some of it quite evocative, if you can get past the eye dialect.
I hate eye dialect and I'll see what I can do!
(I'll see if I can detect anything in "The Watcher by the Threshold," but I have a hard time thinking of creepy things that happened to Justinian.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2023-03-02 11:01 pm (UTC)Okay, how old is the idea of fairies as the surviving indigenous inhabitants of Britain? I encountered it first in Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard, but Parke Godwin used a version of it set in post-Roman times for Firelord—Kipling alludes to it by calling the Picts "the Little People" in Rewards and Fairies—and Terry Pratchett lampshades it with the Nac Mac Feegle. I've been assuming it's one of the nineteenth-century euhemeristic explanations of folklore that got loose into fiction and became a trope, but I've never actually seen anyone track it.
So yes, I think you would find some of it quite evocative, if you can get past the eye dialect.
I hate eye dialect and I'll see what I can do!
(I'll see if I can detect anything in "The Watcher by the Threshold," but I have a hard time thinking of creepy things that happened to Justinian.)
I think you should point Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth at this thing.