Folk Horror and the Troubled Teen Industry: What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould Review

In European folk and fairytales, a journey through the woods represents the characters' coming of age-their passage from the pastoral, relative security of familial and familiar hearths into a fraught, shadowy place where metaphors for social anxieties lurk around every corner. Only with wit and friendship can one come out the other side, though they do so irrevocably changed - sometimes liberated through newfound independence, but ...