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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...
New Release October 2018 – Out of the Dark

New Release October 2018 – Out of the Dark

by HughLamb@ILD | Mar 24, 2018 | Ghost Story, HarperCollins, Hugh Lamb, News, Publications, Robert Chambers

As mentioned yesterday, HarperCollins have announced a new trilogy of Hugh Lamb anthologies for 2018. Published under the Collins Chillers series, October 4th will see a new release of Hugh’s Out of the Dark. Featuring two collected volumes of tales by Robert W....

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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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