{"product_id":"london-uncanny-a-gothic-guide-to-the-capital-in-weird-history-and-fiction-9781350424036","title":"London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eLondon Uncanny\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350424036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d","brand":"Clive Bloom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44978692128949,"sku":"9781350424036","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_66c6a72d-d46b-44bc-8fdb-dfb1388b7662.jpg?v=1735064212","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/london-uncanny-a-gothic-guide-to-the-capital-in-weird-history-and-fiction-9781350424036","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}