«Insightful ... Fairy Tales of London is a lucid piece of detective work in the field of literary genre.»

Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association

«Elber-Aviram leads readers through a sustained examination of almost two centuries of the urban fantasy tradition, grounding her analysis in the Victorian era and hearkening back to Dickens’s work in every chapter. This book will certainly be of interest to scholars of both rural and urban fantasy fiction, and Victorian periodical scholars will perhaps be inspired to consider rural and urban fantasy traditions in periodicals.»

Victorian Periodicals Review

«For scholars focusing on considerations of place and urban fantasy, and London in particular, this monograph represents a crucial text for charting the origins and approaches within the genre, whilst also wholeheartedly championing the potentiality of urban fantasy.»

Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction

«This ambitious and important book advances a persuasive new reading of 19th and 20th-century British Fantasy writing, exploring the dynamic between a tradition of Rural Imagination, typified by writers like Ruskin, MacDonald, Tolkien and C S Lewis and one of Urban Fantasy typified by Dickens, Wells, Orwell, Peake and China Mièville. It marks an important intervention into the on-going critical debate about writing of the fantastic.»

Adam Roberts, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK