London uncanny a gothic guide to the capital in weird history and fiction

"London is both a physical metropolis and a psychic encounter. Depraved depictions of the city in fiction, film, poetry, television and theatre have merged with its dark history, creating a phantasmagoria of murder, vice and the unnatural. In this panoptic look at England's capital at its most eerie...

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Main Author: Bloom, Clive (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
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650 0 |a Curiosities and wonders  |z England  |z London  |x History. 
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