Highlights
🎤 Thought-provoking talk by Dr Sam Le Butt
🌲 Discover ancient customs and folklore
📚 Explore connections to modern anxieties and fears
🗣️ Engage in an interactive Q&A session
General Info
📅 Date: 26 October 2026
🕒 Time: 19:00
⏱️ Duration: 2h 30min
📍 Venue: Sheffield Students' Union, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TG, United Kingdom
👤 Age requirement: This is an 18+ event
Description
Explore the dark origins of folk horror and its connections to ancient customs, folklore and modern anxieties. Followed by Q&A.
Why are we so fascinated by old stories, strange traditions, and the idea that the past might still be hiding in the present? Folk horror often takes us to remote villages, wild landscapes and forgotten beliefs – places where ancient customs and superstition feel very real.
Join Dr Sam Le Butt as we explore how folk horror blends history, myth and imagination – and ask: where does folklore end and reality begin? Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7:30pm - come down early to grab a good seat!
Get your tickets now for The History of Folk Horror in Sheffield!
