Ray Bradbury presents a surreal conspiracy based on a modern (too modern) anxiety: crowds!
Tag: modernity
Weird #27: “Smoke Ghost” by Fritz Leiber (1941)
Fritz Leiber's story about the ghosts of the modern city.

Underworld as Otherworld: Combined and Uneven Development in Charles de Lint’s Urban Fantasy Fiction
While a text asking you to believe in fairies and spirits might seem flaky, seeing as this gives us no solid program to reclaim the city, such faith does awaken the desire to see the postmodern, uneven city restored from its ruins