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Out Now! Terror by Gaslight: Memorial Edition

Out Now! Terror by Gaslight: Memorial Edition

by HughLamb@ILD | Jan 10, 2021 | Ghost Story, Hugh Lamb, Mike Ashley, News, Publications, Victorian Tales of Terror

Hugh Lamb Online is delighted to announce the release of Terror by Gaslight: Memorial Edition.  It has been a long time coming, but the new edition is now available at Amazon in Kindle and Paperback. We hope you will enjoy revisiting this classic and that you relish...
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...
Remembering Hugh Lamb

Remembering Hugh Lamb

by HughLamb@ILD | Mar 21, 2019 | Bernard Capes, David Brawn, Event, HarperCollins, Hugh Lamb, Jo Fletcher, Mike Ashley, News, Steve Jones

It was a small gathering, but the group of family and colleagues that came together to celebrate the life and work of Hugh Lamb enjoyed a night of warmth, laughter and common affection for the late anthologist. Fellow writers and anthologists Mike Ashley, Steve Jones...

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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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