Neil Matheson is Senior Lecturer in Theory and Criticism of Photography at the University of Westminster, publishing widely on surrealism, photography and contemporary art. Publications include The Sources of Surrealism (2006), joint-editorship of The Machine and the Ghost (2013) and recent essays on Magritte, Ithell Colquhoun and on spirit photography.

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• ContentsPrefaceList of abbreviationsList of figuresIntroduction: ‘the start of a venture’Ch.1 Crossing the Bridge: Surrealism between dream and realityCh.2 From the Castle to the Street: Fantômas and the re-enchantment of modern urban lifeCh.3 Gothic Psychology and the ‘humid backroom of Spiritualism’Ch.4 The Theatre of Blood: Breton and the psychiatristsCh.5 Dark Angel of Surrealism: Artaud, electroshock and black magicCh.6 Heritage of the Accursed: Magic and occultism in wartime and postwar SurrealismCh.7 Return to the Castle: Transgression and Sadean violence in the postwar eraConclusion: gothic surrealism and the mutation of inner spaceIndex

Neil Matheson is Senior Lecturer in Theory and Criticism of Photography at the University of Westminster, publishing widely on surrealism, photography and contemporary art. Publications include The Sources of Surrealism (2006), joint-editorship of The Machine and the Ghost (2013) and recent essays on Magritte, Ithell Colquhoun and on spirit photography.

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• ContentsPrefaceList of abbreviationsList of figuresIntroduction: ‘the start of a venture’Ch.1 Crossing the Bridge: Surrealism between dream and realityCh.2 From the Castle to the Street: Fantômas and the re-enchantment of modern urban lifeCh.3 Gothic Psychology and the ‘humid backroom of Spiritualism’Ch.4 The Theatre of Blood: Breton and the psychiatristsCh.5 Dark Angel of Surrealism: Artaud, electroshock and black magicCh.6 Heritage of the Accursed: Magic and occultism in wartime and postwar SurrealismCh.7 Return to the Castle: Transgression and Sadean violence in the postwar eraConclusion: gothic surrealism and the mutation of inner spaceIndex

Neil Matheson is Senior Lecturer in Theory and Criticism of Photography at the University of Westminster, publishing widely on surrealism, photography and contemporary art. Publications include The Sources of Surrealism (2006), joint-editorship of The Machine and the Ghost (2013) and recent essays on Magritte, Ithell Colquhoun and on spirit photography.

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• ContentsPrefaceList of abbreviationsList of figuresIntroduction: ‘the start of a venture’Ch.1 Crossing the Bridge: Surrealism between dream and realityCh.2 From the Castle to the Street: Fantômas and the re-enchantment of modern urban lifeCh.3 Gothic Psychology and the ‘humid backroom of Spiritualism’Ch.4 The Theatre of Blood: Breton and the psychiatristsCh.5 Dark Angel of Surrealism: Artaud, electroshock and black magicCh.6 Heritage of the Accursed: Magic and occultism in wartime and postwar SurrealismCh.7 Return to the Castle: Transgression and Sadean violence in the postwar eraConclusion: gothic surrealism and the mutation of inner spaceIndex