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Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

by HughLamb@ILD | Oct 31, 2019 | Ambrose Bierce, Erckmann-Chatrian, Event, Ghost Story, Hugh Lamb, Louis Alexandre Chatrian, Mike Ashley, News, Publications, Victorian Tales of Terror

Happy Halloween! To celebrate all things supernatural, we are delighted to announce the release of this new edition of Victorian Tales of Terror. Out of print for 43 years, Hugh Lamb’s third anthology now comes with the addition of an extra story, originally...
Tribute to Hugh Lamb on Hypnogoria

Tribute to Hugh Lamb on Hypnogoria

by HughLamb@ILD | Mar 10, 2019 | ACBenson, Ambrose Bierce, Bernard Capes, EFBenson, Erckmann-Chatrian, Ghost Story, HarperCollins, Hugh Lamb, News, Obituary, RHBenson, Robert Chambers

Jim Moon just published a wonderful tribute to Hugh Lamb and his works on the website Hypnogoria. Tracing Hugh’s career, from his initial foray into the anthology up to last year’s HarperCollins editions, Moon explores Hugh’s influence on the genre...

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‘The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England was unique. While the foundations of so much of our present knowledge of subjects like medicine, public health, electricity, chemistry and agriculture, were being mapped out, people could still believe in the existence of devils and demons. And why not? A good ghost story is pure entertainment. It was not until well into the twentieth century that ghost stories began to have a deeper significance and to become allegorical; in fact, to lose their charm. At what other point in literary history could a man, standing over the body of his fiancee, say such a line as this:

“Speak, hound! Or, by heaven, this night shall witness two murders instead of one!”

Those were the days.’

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