Psychick Albion

Does fiction that inhabits a fantasy world have to be escapist or can it tell us something unexpectedly radical? This book will look at a range of cultural products from the post-war period including children’s literature, horror films, the folk rock revival, television, fine art, and video games. The common thread amongst them is the positing of another world, an alternative reality, distinct from the mundane world of consensus reality. Although this might be dismissed as an escapist retreat fr