Fairy Tales of London

Hadas Elber-Aviram is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, London, UK.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations IntroductionA tale of two fantasies 1. The phantom out of Oxford Street: Dickens’s fairyland 2. The Martian on Primrose Hill: Wells’s scientific romances 3. The bells of lost London: Orwell’s and Peake’s anti-fantasies 4. A pyramid of flesh on Villiers Street: New Worlds magazine and the Jerry Cornelius myth 5. ‘My home, the city’: Secondary-World London BibliographyIndex

Elber-Aviram lays down cobblestone by carefully shaped cobblestone, giving her readers not only the foundations but the path to see the intended fantastic in Dickens’ door-knockers, Wells’ radios, and Gaiman’s doors