A book of monsters

This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is emphatically a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness examining post-modern revisions of Modernist Promethean tropes in an eclectic range of gothic fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien King Kong killer-computers or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination setting out a compelling and comprehensive overview on our contemporary unconscious.