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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-Siecle cultural history.
Following the success of Handheld Press's 2019 best-selling
anthology Womens Weird, British Weird is a new anthology of classic
Weird short fiction by British writers, first published between the
1890s and the 1930s. Embracing the famous and the undeservedly
obscure, this collection - curated by James Machin, author of
Palgrave Gothic's Weird Fiction in Britain, 1880-1939 - assembles
stories to thrill, entertain, and chill. Featured stories include:
'Man-Size in Marble' by Edith Nesbit (1893) 'No-Man's Land', John
Buchan (1900) 'The Willows', by Algernon Blackwood 'The Man Who
Went Too Far', by E F Benson (1912) 'N' by Arthur Machen (1934)
'Mappa Mundi' by Mary Butts (1937) The collection also includes
Mary Butts' influential essay 'Ghosties and Ghoulies' (1933), on
British supernatural writing. Machin's introduction describes the
background for these excellent stories in the Weird tradition, and
identifies their use of peculiarly British preoccupations in
supernatural short 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. 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-Siecle cultural history.
Exploring Penda's Fen, a 1974 BBC film that achieved mythic status.
In 1974, the BBC broadcast the film Penda's Fen, leaving audiences
mystified and spellbound. "Make no mistake. We had a major work of
television last night," The Times declared the next morning.
Written by the playwright and classicist David Rudkin, the film
follows Stephen, an 18-year-old boy, whose identity, sexuality, and
suffocating nationalism unravels through a series of strange
visions. After its original broadcast, Penda's Fen vanished into
unseen mythic status, with only a single rebroadcast in 1990
sustaining its cult following. With a DVD release by the BFI in
2016, Penda's Fen has now become totemic for those interested in
Britain's deep history, folklore, and landscape. Of Mud and Flame
brings together writers, artists, and historians to excavate and
explore this unique cornerstone of Britain's uncanny archive.
Contributors include David Rudkin, Sukhdev Sandhu, Roger Luckhurst,
Gareth Evan, Adam Scovell, Bethany Whalley, Carl Phelpstead, David
Ian Rabey, David Rolinson, Craig Wallace, Daniel O'Donnell Smith,
William Fowler, Yvonne Salmon, Andy W. Smith, Carolyne Larrington,
John Harle, Timothy J. Jarvis, Tom White, Daniel Eltringham, Joseph
Brooker, Gary Budden
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