![]() ![]() ![]() The present essay is devoted to an analysis of two of these stories: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd,” Clive Barker’s “The Midnight Meat Train” thus the trajectory of the paper ranges from the first example of urban horror (Latham 593) to a near-contemporary vision of the gothic within the metropolis, to conclude with an examination of Ryuhei Kitamura’s The Midnight Meat Train, an adaptation based on Barker’s tale. Email:Įver since the middle of the 19 th century, the metropolis has been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for gothic and horror stories (Mighall “Gothic Cities” 54, Latham 592). His main areas of research and teaching are 19th and 20th century fiction, literary and cultural theory, visual and popular culture, media studies, the theory and the practice of adaptation. Gyula Somogyi is Senior Assistant Professor at the Comparative Literature and Culture Department, University of Miskolc, Hungary. "Of Flaneurs and City Crowds: Poe, Barker, Kitamura and the (Oedipal) Subject of Urban Horror" by Gyula Somogyi ![]()
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