Black Hand Gang

What happens when the First World War meets pulp science fiction?

This month we read the novel: Black Hand Gang (the first in the No Man’s World trilogy) by Pat Kelleher. The book depicts a fictional battalion of British soldiers who are transported from the Somme to a strange alien world. As a result we discuss supernatural horror and the war, the use of slang, and whether this book was written explicitly for Chris.

References

Pat Kelleher, Black Hand Gang (No Man’s Word Book 1) (2011)

Daniel Dafoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Dennis Wheatley, The Devil Rides Out (1934)

Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991)

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (1989 – present)

Juno Dawson, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven (2022)

Reginal Hill, The Wood Beyond (1995)

Blackadder Goes Forth, BBC TV (1989)

Pat Mills, Charley’s War (1979-1986)

Brian Lumbley

HG Wells

HP Lovecraft

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Professor of Modern British History at Leeds University. My research interests lie at the intersection of the histories of gender, particularly masculinity, medicine and warfare.

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A historian focusing on the First World War and popular representations of warfare. I received my PhD from the University of Sussex in 2013. My thesis examined relations between British and French soldiers during the First World War.

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A Postgraduate Researcher at Leeds University. My current research explores all the men who appeared before the North Riding Military Appeal Tribunal, 1916-18.