London Uncanny
A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 20 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350424036
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 236x158x24 mm
- Weight 508 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 bw illus 630
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Long description:
From Kensington to the East End, under candlelight, gas lamp and then neon signs, London is both a bustling physical metropolis and a stirring psychic encounter. The most depraved depictions of London in fiction, film, poetry, television and theatre have irrevocably merged with the reality of its dark history, creating a phantasmagoria defined by murder, vice and the unnatural. In this panoptic look at the capital at its most eerie and macabre, Clive Bloom takes a tour of Gothic London's uncanny literature, arcane events and its infamous and imagined geographies.
From David Bowie to T S Eliot, Thomas de Quincey to Aleister Crowley, the prophetess Joanna Southcott to the 'ghosts' of Abba and the worlds of Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker, these are the figures that populate a city lost in fog and blind alleys, where the dead can be raised, the living sacrificed and the clandestine thrive. Suturing together fact and fantasy, London Uncanny presents the urban landscape of the capital as a space of wonder and madness, haunted by its past and haunting the present. Stalking through disease and degeneracy, death and murder, spiritualism, lunacy and the occult, Bloom crafts a singular, integrated concept of a London where dreams and nightmares meet.
Table of Contents:
List of Contents
Chapter 1 Edgar Poe in Starbucks ï¿1⁄2
Chapter 2 Fumbles in the Fog
Chapter 3 Bowie with a Zebra
Chapter 4 Chat Show Vampires
Chapter 5 Shock and Awe in Anglican Land
Chapter 6 Perverts in the Suburbs
Chapter 7 Joanna has a Baby, Ernest offers a Potato
Chapter 8 Cenobites in Dollis Hill: Intermezzo
Chapter 9 Mysteries at the Bloomberg Building
Chapter 10 ABBA meets the Poltergeist
Chapter 11 Crowley and the Beetle
Chapter 12 Tom Eliot gets the Hoo Haas
Chapter 13 Charles Dickens does not eat Pies
Chapter 14 Mary Barnes paints her picture
Chapter 15 Florence Farr chats with a Mummy
Chapter 16 Mabel Collins entertains Guests
Chapter 17 Mother Sawyer puts a Spell on You
Chapter 18 The Invisible Man goes Shopping
Chapter 19 Dr Zerrfi's Faustian Pact
Chapter 20 Satan takes a stroll with the Bellman
Chapter 21 Gilbert and George have a Take Away
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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