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Richard Lamb Interviewed on the EnCrypted Classic Horror podcast

Richard Lamb Interviewed on the EnCrypted Classic Horror podcast

by HughLamb@ILD | Mar 10, 2022 | News

Richard Lamb was recently interviewed on the EnCrypted Classic Horror podcast, in conversation with Jasper Lestrange. They talk about Hugh Lamb, his work and legacy unearthing rare vintage ghost stories, but also Hugh Lamb, the father and the man. The conversation...
Miracle in Suburbia on the EnCrypted Classic Horror Podcast

Miracle in Suburbia on the EnCrypted Classic Horror Podcast

by HughLamb@ILD | Mar 1, 2022 | Hugh Lamb, News

Podcaster Jasper L’Estrange has just done a wonderful reading of Thomas Burke’s Miracle in Suburbia, which features in And Midnight Never Come. L’Estrange has a gift for bringing stories to life, so why not check out his podcast, EnCrypted: The...

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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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