{"product_id":"london-uncanny-clive-bloom","title":"London Uncanny (Clive Bloom)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNominated for Best Professional Book in the 2026 World Fantasy Awards.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eClive Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in Residence at Hull University, Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara, Romania. A feature writer for \u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Evening Standard,\u003c\/i\u003e he is the author of many books on topics from literature to politics, including the London political histories \u003ci\u003eViolent City \u003c\/i\u003e(2003) and \u003ci\u003eRiot City\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). An editor of series on crime and the Gothic for multiple publishers and an international key-note speaker, Bloom has won a Bram Stoker Award,  been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award and curated exhibitions on Jack the Ripper and the Siege of Sidney Street for the Museum of London.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Hardback, Englisch, 240 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65838032781661,"sku":"K097738235","price":22.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9773823500001A.jpg?v=1788739774","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/london-uncanny-clive-bloom","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}