The Lantern Man draws inspiration from atmospheric folk horror classics like The VVitch, Don’t Look Now, and The Hallow. Stories that explore loss, isolation, and the uncanny edges of nature and grief. With its mist-laden setting, whispered legends, and emotionally wounded characters, The Lantern Man captures that same chilling intimacy between the personal and the supernatural.

Set on the ghostly borderlands of East Anglia, the story uses fog, silence, and spectral imagery to evoke dread. Not from violence or gore, but from the quiet places grief can take us. Like its cinematic influences, The Lantern Man favors slow-burn tension and psychological weight over jump scares, making its final reveal all the more haunting.

If you’re drawn to folk horror that fuses emotional vulnerability with eerie folklore, The Lantern Man offers a poetic and unsettling tale in a story where the dead can't rest, the living can’t let go, and the light in the fog may not be what it seems.