This chapter surveys the importance of infection in London horror gothic looking at werewolves, zombies in 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead, and considers the notion of plague in the seventeenth century and its relationship to the Covid epidemic. The chapter ends with the author’s own ‘gothic’ and occult experiences.

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Nothing but a Ghost Town

  • Clive Bloom

摘要

This chapter surveys the importance of infection in London horror gothic looking at werewolves, zombies in 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead, and considers the notion of plague in the seventeenth century and its relationship to the Covid epidemic. The chapter ends with the author’s own ‘gothic’ and occult experiences.