ABSTRACT
The uncanny is applicable not only to the b(l)ack waters of the swamp, but also to the dark underworld of the city which for Freud and Walter Benjamin were an object, or more precisely abject, of horror and fascination, whereas for some nineteenth-century writers on the city its underside was exclusively an object of horror and for some twenty-first century writers the slum is an object of fascination as discussed in this chapter.
