Century-old tracks: The metro and other transport in fantasy genres
Fantasy stories have travelled by metro more than you would think. This is a setting where advanced technology and ancestral ghosts and demons coexist, and which features in impressive literary works such as Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Moebius (1996), The Warriors (1979), Metro 2033 (2002), Otoshimono (2006), End of the Line (2007), The Midnight Meat Train (2008) and Mетро (2013). Coinciding with the centenary of Barcelona’s metro, writer and railway expert Jordi Font-Agustí will take us on a journey through the films and works of literature and film featuring this space, from Armin J. Deutsch’s short story A Subway Named Moebius (1950) to the film Estación Rocafort (2024), written by Iván Ledesma, with stops in science fiction, horror, fantasy and gore works set in various cities’ metro networks. Exploring the omnipresence of the metro in fantasy – and especially horror – literature and film means exploring the dark areas of human nature.
