Season 8: Episode 129
We explore the figure of the Slavic forest witch Baba Yaga in this episode of The Folklore Podcast, through the lens of a new women in horror anthology called 'Into the Forest'. Amongst the 23 stories and poems in the book are ones written by a New York Times bestselling author, a number of Bram Stoker Award nominees, and our guest Catherine McCarthy - a Welsh author of dark fiction.
Catherine chats with film studies lecturer Jenny Barrett about her background and inspirations, and her take on Baba Yaga.
Read our review of the book on our Book Reviews page.
Into the Forest is published by Blackspot Books. You can find Catherine on Twitter here.
To help us to keep producing this podcast, as well as supporting our non profit work through the Folklore Library and Archive, please consider joining our Patreon page for extra content.
Closing music in this episode is 'Lessons of Rebirth', performed by Car Dia. Find them on the web at www.pagansongs.com
We explore the figure of the Slavic forest witch Baba Yaga in this episode of The Folklore Podcast, through the lens of a new women in horror anthology called 'Into the Forest'. Amongst the 23 stories and poems in the book are ones written by a New York Times bestselling author, a number of Bram Stoker Award nominees, and our guest Catherine McCarthy - a Welsh author of dark fiction.
Catherine chats with film studies lecturer Jenny Barrett about her background and inspirations, and her take on Baba Yaga.
Read our review of the book on our Book Reviews page.
Into the Forest is published by Blackspot Books. You can find Catherine on Twitter here.
To help us to keep producing this podcast, as well as supporting our non profit work through the Folklore Library and Archive, please consider joining our Patreon page for extra content.
Closing music in this episode is 'Lessons of Rebirth', performed by Car Dia. Find them on the web at www.pagansongs.com

ABOUT OUR GUEST
Catherine McCarthy grew up in the industrial valleys of South Wales where she went on to teach in primary education for almost three decades.
Having been ‘shown the light’ by her mother, who had the tradition of oral story-telling down to a fine art, she quickly developed an insatiable appetite for all things literary.
Her first published novel, The Gatekeeper’s Apprentice, is a fantasy, magical adventure for middle grade readers.
Her second novel, Hope Cottage, is a dark and mysterious family saga penned as a cathartic means of coming to terms with the loss of her own mother.
Having traded the challenges and rewards of teaching for the hurdles and merits of writing, Catherine McCarthy now lives with her illustrator husband in a two hundred year old cottage in West Wales amidst spectacular, story-inspiring countryside.
To support the work of The Folklore Podcast and the Folklore Library and Archive in preserving folklore and making it freely available for the future, please visit our Patreon page or learn more about our fundraising.
Catherine McCarthy grew up in the industrial valleys of South Wales where she went on to teach in primary education for almost three decades.
Having been ‘shown the light’ by her mother, who had the tradition of oral story-telling down to a fine art, she quickly developed an insatiable appetite for all things literary.
Her first published novel, The Gatekeeper’s Apprentice, is a fantasy, magical adventure for middle grade readers.
Her second novel, Hope Cottage, is a dark and mysterious family saga penned as a cathartic means of coming to terms with the loss of her own mother.
Having traded the challenges and rewards of teaching for the hurdles and merits of writing, Catherine McCarthy now lives with her illustrator husband in a two hundred year old cottage in West Wales amidst spectacular, story-inspiring countryside.
To support the work of The Folklore Podcast and the Folklore Library and Archive in preserving folklore and making it freely available for the future, please visit our Patreon page or learn more about our fundraising.