The Fantastic
In most cases, it's not an either/or situation with the theories. PB is a good example of a story that clearly positions itself as a Fantastic tale with all those conventions: supernatural/folk tale, skeptical voices of reason, the suspicion of mental disturbance and drug use in the narrator, two possible explanations for the events described and so on. That's because Fantastic is a generic term to describe the structure of particular kinds of fiction whereas Uncanny can refer to a particular psychological state or particular moments in texts without applying to the whole. So the opening of the story, for example, could easily be described as uncanny because it defamiliarises the landscape with specific literary techniques.
Conclusion Introduction
The light – supernatural/science
Uncanny
Degeneration –Dorian Gray
Fairy Tale

Introduction
From the book Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Grant Allen’s Pallinghurst Barrows has been the generic and thematic basis for many gothic storylines, however with relation to H.G. Well’s The Time Machine, it has become one piece of writing that had gone unrecognised for a considerable amount of time. Pallinghurst Barrows is a short story assorted with supernatural and scientific themes in which Allen showed great interest resulting in him writing three novels such as Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886) and Physiological aesthetics (1877).
Degenerate
Throughout Pallinghurst Barrows there is the ongoing motif of Darwin and degeneration, resulting in an idea or description leading us back to our ancestors, a “Darwinian traverse of scenes and actions that invert accepted hierarchical relationships, especially the fundamental relationship of human mastery to time”.

Pallinghurst Barrows includes all the conventions that would position itself as a Fantastic story, such as the supernatural folk tales, the doubt that