Introduction: Mapping the Urban Mindscape: The City and the Supernatural

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Introduction: Mapping the Urban Mindscape: The City and the Supernatural 1
7. Urban Enchantment
8. 1 Magical Capital: Witchcraft and the Press in Paris, c. 1789–1939 25
9. 2 Fatal Seductions, False Promises and Urban Enchantments: The Mamlambo, the Blesser and the Consumer in South African Cities 45
10. 3 The Banshee Lives in the Handball Alley: Limerick City as a Folk Gothic Site 65
11. 4 Urban Energy: Cartographies of the Esoteric City 82
12. Urban Anxieties
13. 5 The Occultism of the New York Slums: Perceptions and Apparitions c. 1850–1930 105
14. 6 Manila-as-Hell: Horror, Geopolitics and Religious Orientalism in Anglo-American Literary Constructions of an Asian City, 1946–2013 125
15. 7 The Goatman and Washington, D.C.: Strange Sightings and the Fear of the Encroaching City 145
16. 8 Horror Stories of Young Ural Cities 165
17. 9 The London Underground: A Supernatural Subterranean Heterotopia 186
18. 10 The Uncanny City: Delving into the Sewers and Subconscious of Tokyo in Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 206
19. Urban Spectrality
20. 11 Ghosts on the Goldfields: Ballarat as a Haunted City 229
21. 12 Spectral Mexico City 249
22. 13 Ghostlore of Contemporary Beijing 269
23. 14 ‘There’s Something in the Water!’ A Psychogeographical Exploration of What Lurks Beneath the Surface of Manchester 290
24. Index 310