This week, we’re giving away three copies of London Uncanny by Clive Bloom. London Uncanny is a journey through the eerie and macabre side of London, blending history, literature, and the supernatural. Clive Bloom explores the city’s dark past, from crime and vice to ghosts and the occult, weaving together fact and fiction. Featuring figures like Aleister Crowley, David Bowie, and Neil Gaiman, this book reveals a London haunted by its past, where reality and nightmares collide. Here’s the blurb:
From 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.
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.
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, London Uncanny 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.
If you’d like to win a copy, simply enter your details in the form below. Three lucky people will win a copy!
Entries close midday (Syd/Melb time) Monday 7 April 2025. Winners will be notified within a week of the competition closing.
GOOD LUCK!
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