Albion's Eco-Eerie - TV and Movies of the Haunted Generations - Phil Smith

Albion's Eco-Eerie - TV and Movies of the Haunted Generations - Phil Smith / small 133-page paperback published in 2025 by Temporal Boundary Press in the UK

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In Albion's Eco-eerie, Phil Smith takes us through a selection of weird films and TV shows and uncovers a wholly unexpected ecological and political message. Unlike most approaches to folk horror or hauntology, we are interested here in an alternative reading; one that attends to the unhuman characters, the materials and the edgeland spaces. A hobgoblinology.

"Albion's Eco-eerie is a fantastic exploration into culture’s obsession with ‘the other’. Dissecting some of our most regarded folk horror creations, to present us with the political and theoretical heart that beats inside. How our desire for escape through parallel worlds holds the key for a deeper future. The perfect companion to Mark Fisher's The Weird and The Eerie." --Maxine Peake

"It is a bold book that takes the weaving path of blood, trauma and sensuality away from Folk Horror and fashionable 'hauntology' into new, enchanted spaces. Digging up and doubling down on messy ideas and demon lovers that exist not to elevate us to transcendence but to immerse us in the mud of grotty instinct."--Stephen Volk, author of The Dark Masters Trilogy and Ghostwatch

Films and TV shows discussed: Night of the Demon, The Maze, The Company of Wolves, The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass 2, The Strange World of Planet X, Fireball XL5: 'Plant Man from Space', Quatermass and the Pit, O Lucky Man!, The Changes, Children of the Stones, Whistle and I'll Come to You, A Warning to the Curious, The Lovecraft Investigations (podcast), Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II, The Girl with All the Gifts