That's an interesting article. It highlights what, to me, is the centre of Garner's work- indeed, perhaps the centre of folk horror - the land as a character, as a constant, ever-present witness to history and as a record of it.

Which leads to the terrifying thought - that if history, if the old ways, are recorded in the landscape, is there a key that can unlock them and release them into the present? And that surely is the centre of folk horror, from Nigel Kneale through Sapphire & Steel to Lovecraft via M R James - present day civilisation is a flimsy screen, covering something immensely powerful and immensely old and immensely dangerous.

This got cheerful, didn't it?