{"product_id":"9781350424036-uncanny-london-a-gothic-guide-to-the-capital-in-weird-history-and-fiction","title":"London Uncanny","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction\u003cbr\u003eA panoptic exploration of gothic London, tracing its arcane history and darkest fictitious depictions from the 18th century to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\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.\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41707773296737,"sku":"9781350424036","price":20.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_30351365.jpg?v=1727888712","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350424036-uncanny-london-a-gothic-guide-to-the-capital-in-weird-history-and-fiction","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}