A Year In The Wandering Through Spectral Fields is an exploration of the undercurrents and flipside of bucolic dreams and where they meet and intertwine with the parallel worlds of hauntology; it connects layered and, at times, semi-hidden cultural pathways and signposts, journeying from acid folk to edgelands via electronic music innovators, folkloric film and photography, dreams of lost futures and misremembered televisual tales and transmissions. The book includes considerations of the work of writers including Rob Young, John Wyndham, Richard Mabey and Mark Fisher, musicians and groups The Owl Service, Jane Weaver, Shirley Collins, Broadcast, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Virginia Astley and Kate Bush, the artists Edward Chell, Jeremy Deller and Barbara Jones and the record labels Trunk, Folk Police, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers. Also explored are television and film including Quatermass, The Moon and the Sledgehammer, Phase IV, Beyond the Black Rainbow, The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, Bagpuss, Travelling for a Living, The Duke of Burgundy, Sapphire & Steel, General Orders No. 9, Gone to Earth, The Changes, Children of the Stones, Sleep Furiously and The Wicker Man. It draws together revised writings alongside new journeyings from the A Year In The Country project, which has undertaken a set of year-long journeys through spectral fields; cyclical explorations of an otherly pastoralism, the outer reaches of folk culture and the spectres of hauntology. It is a wandering amongst subculture that draws from the undergrowth of the land. As a project, it has included a website featuring writing, artwork and music which stems from that otherly pastoral/spectral hauntological intertwining, alongside a growing catalogue of album releases. * * * In keeping with the number of weeks in a year, the book is split into 52 chapters, a selection of which are listed Electric Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Folk Vs Pop, Less Harvested Cultural Landscapes and Acts of Enclosure, Old and New Gather in the Early Signposts and Underground Acid Folk Explorations Places Where Society Goes to Dream, the Defining and Deletion of Spectres and the Making of an Ungenre Ghost Box Parallel Worlds, Conjuring Spectral Memories, Magic Old and New and Slipstream Trips to the Panda Pops Disco Folk Horror From But a Few Seedlings Did a Great Forest Grow Tales From The Black Meadow, The Book of the Lost and The Equestrian The Imagined Spaces of Imaginary Soundtracks Robin Redbreast, The Ash Tree, Sky, The Changes, Penda’s Fen Red Shift and The Owl Wanderings Through Spectral Television Landscapes Kill List, Puffball, In the Dark Half and Butter on the Folk Horror Descendants by Way of the Kitchen Sink Queens of Evil, Tam Lin and The High Fashion Transitional Psych Folk Horror, Pastoral Fantasy and Dreamlike Isolation Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Arthouse Evolution and Crossing the Thresholds of the Hinterland Worlds of Peter Strickland The Midwich Cuckoos and The Day of the John Wyndham, Dystopian Tales, Celluloid Cuckoos and the Village as Anything But Idyll The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Public Information Films and Lost Municipal Paternalisms The Seasons, Jonny Trunk, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and A Yearning for Library Music, Experiments in Educational Music and Tape Loop Tributes The Stone Tape, Quatermass, The Road and The Twilight Language of Nigel Unearthing Tales from Buried Ancient Pasts Detectorists, Bagpuss, The Wombles and The Good Views from a Gentler Landscape Weirdlore, Folk Police Recordings, Sproatly Smith and Seasons They Notes From the Folk Underground, Legendary Lost Focal Points and Privately Pressed Folk