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Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and occult organizations and individuals. It is also a book filled with the uncertainties and otherworldliness of the London landscape. It contains whispers and rituals, strange apparitions, apocalyptic visions, alien voices, dark shadows, vampiric dreamscapes, and uncanny vanishings; this is a London where the material hides the immaterial and where both exist at the same time on different etheric plains. This is, indeed, the London of the occult, not merely the London of astral projections into outer planes of consciousness or even to outer-space planets, but also underground travel in the labyrinths of the Tube network and time-warped visions of apocalyptic endings. This is also the London of the occulted or hidden, which waits to be revealed behind the facades of concrete or glass.
List of contents
Chapter 01: Edward Bulwer Lytton scores a Goal.- Chapter 02: Fumsup reads the Kabbalah and Edvard Lybeck writes to The Daily Mail.- Chapter 03: Package Holidays in Atlantis; Rabbi Falk goes to Epping Forest.- Chapter 04: Red Curtains and a Sightless Horse at the Royal Academy.- Chapter 05: Police Officers Lillian Wyles and Violet Ritchie meet White Rabbit; Rudi Shneider has a date with Olga.- Chapter 06: Alfred Wallace and the Psychopathic Healer. Chapter 07: Mrs Guppy goes Shopping and the Reverend Davies has fun with the Devil.- Chapter 08: Mary Queen of Scots has a Hissy Fit.- Chapter 09: Alien Reptiles at Buckingham Palace; Madame Arcati has a Vision.- Chapter 10: Mr Tod Slaughter murders Thousands.- Chapter 11: A Pyramid on Primrose Hill.- Chapter 12: Aleister Crowley cuts a Caper in Hammersmith; Bram Stoker plays a Gig on Eel Pie Island.- Chapter 13: Robin Hood meets the Witches.- Chapter 14: Countess Clodagh has a very bad Day.- Chapter 15: William Morris sweats on the Tube.- Chapter 16: Chinese Crackers and a Bullet.- Chapter 17: Tea and Yoga with Rollo.- Chapter 18: Dr Phibes goes to Biba; Jesus finds a House in Mayfair.- Chapter 19: Ithel Colquhoun and Iain Sinclair search for a severed Head.- Chapter 20: Old Mother Riley and Peter Ackroyd dress it up in Queer London.- Chapter 21: Nothing but a Ghost Town.- Chapter 22: Epilogue: Dracula reads a Baedeker and Jack takes The East End Advertiser: Gothic Holidays in the Metropolis.
About the author
Clive Bloom
is currently Visiting Professor in Residence at the Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing, University of Hull, and a Research Fellow at the Western University of Timisoara (Romania).
Summary
Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers
is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and occult organizations and individuals. It is also a book filled with the uncertainties and otherworldliness of the London landscape. It contains whispers and rituals, strange apparitions, apocalyptic visions, alien voices, dark shadows, vampiric dreamscapes, and uncanny vanishings; this is a London where the material hides the immaterial and where both exist at the same time on different etheric plains. This is, indeed, the London of the occult, not merely the London of astral projections into outer planes of consciousness or even to outer-space planets, but also underground travel in the labyrinths of the Tube network and time-warped visions of apocalyptic endings. This is also the London of the occulted or hidden, which waits to be revealed behind the facades of concrete or glass.
