"A compelling argument for the consideration of the weird as a major literary mode. Though it focuses on the late-Victorian and Modernist period, Machin's study ranges from the eighteenth-century origins of the weird to its continued popularity today. Machin surprises and delights with provocative insights and analyses, manoeuvring dextrously across the fields of canonical, popular, minor, and cult fiction. Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 represents an important and transformational contribution to the scholarly fields of fin-de-siècle literature and pulp fiction." (Kirsten MacLeod, Newcastle University, UK) "Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 is a book of groundbreaking importance for the study of the Weird in literature and culture: the first study to look comprehensively at the British context, and an invaluable account of the crucial continuities between the cultures of fin-de-siècle decadence and the Lovecraft/Weird Tales first heyday of the mode. James Machin's accounts of, in particular, Machen, M. P. Shiel, and Buchan are masterful and the book as a whole is filled with fascinating and illuminating material.

Nobody interested in this topic can ignore this book's larger argument." (Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK).