As the most recent wave of interest in folklore and folk customs continues to grow, this anthology takes us to England’s second largest, though often overlooked, county of Lincolnshire. It offers a variety show bill of modern interpretations of traditional tales – not set in aspic, or regarded as fixed documents from the past – which continue to change with the ‘folk’.

This book brings together new, original fiction and poetry by fifteen of Lincolnshire’s most celebrated writers, all taking inspiration from the county’s rich, diverse, and evolving heritage of folk tales. Here readers will find boggarts, rogues, princesses, witches, demons, old rites and customs. Mostly, however, the stories and poems in this book are concerned with how our cultural heritage might add colour to our lives, with ripping good yarns for their own sakes and for our times.

Contributors: Alison Brackenbury – Philippa East – Robert Etty – John Gallas – Fee Griffin – Rahul Gupta – Alex Harvey – Juliet E. McKenna – Daniele Pantano – Jane Simmons – Nick Triplow – Rory Waterman – Aliya Whiteley – Anne Zouroudi

Anna Milon obtained her PhD from the University of Exeter. Before joining the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project as post-doctoral research fellow, she participated in a range of public outreach events, including loaning items and developing a series of seminars for the ‘Fantasy: Realms of Imagination’ exhibition at the British Library. Rory Waterman is the author of four collections of poetry from Carcanet and edited Something Happens, Sometimes Here, a collection of poetry by Lincolnshire poets, published by Five Leaves. He writes regularly for the literary press, is the author of three critical books, and co-edits New Walk Editions.