Taken from Blackwood by Hannah Eaton SOME very English folk horror for your post-Christmas delight? Hannah Eaton’s Blackwood was one of Graphic Content’s Graphic Novels of the year. It’s the beautifully drawn story of two suspiciously similar murders decades apart in a small, overlooked corner of the country. Set in the fictional town of Blackwood, Eaton’s story takes in eerie folk traditions and rumours of witchcraft, and a local peer with a menagerie and Irish servants, but also deals with issues of insularity, class and post-traumatic stress disorder that feel very much of the moment. Here, Eaton talks about her book, the real-life murders that inspired it, family history, Brexit, her love of The Wicker Man, the end of multiculturalism and the “obfuscating woo woo” of Agatha Christie.