{"product_id":"9781350424036","title":"London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction","description":"Author: Bloom, Clive\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781350424036\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 20 Mar 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240 Format: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46636900515998,"sku":"UBD-9781350424036","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781350424036.jpg?v=1774399248","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781350424036","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}