Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939 (Palgrave Gothic)
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Summary
This book is the first study of how weird fiction emerged from Victorian supernatural literature abandoning the more conventional Gothic horrors of the past for the contemporary weird tale It investigates the… careers and fiction of a range of the British writers who inspired H P Lovecraft such as Arthur Machen M P Shiel and John Buchan to shed light on the tensions between literary and genre fiction that continue to this day Weird Fiction in Britain 1880 1939 focuses on the key literary and cultural contexts of weird fiction of the period including Decadence paganism and the occult and discusses how these later impacted on the seminal American pulp magazine Weird Tales This ground-breaking book will appeal to scholars of weird horror and Gothic fiction genre studies Decadence popular fiction the occult and Fin-de-Si cle cultural history