Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939

• Main Author: Machin, James (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Gothic
• Subjects: Popular Culture.; Gothic fiction (Literary genre).; Popular Culture .; Gothic Fiction.

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. Love...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Weird Fin-De-Siècle and After
• 3. Shiel, Stenbock, Gilchrist, and Machen
• 4. Buchan
• 5. Weird Tales and Pulp Decadence.