{"product_id":"london-uncanny-by-clive-bloom-9781350424036","title":"London Uncanny","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuturing together fact and fantasy, \u003cem\u003eLondon Uncanny\u003c\/em\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\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431481721068,"sku":"9781350424036","price":44.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350424036.jpg?v=1774557722","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/london-uncanny-by-clive-bloom-9781350424036","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}