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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...
Four Months On

Four Months On

by HughLamb@ILD | Jul 21, 2019 | Ghost Story, Hugh Lamb, News, Victorian Tales of Terror

Written by Richard Lamb It’s been four and a half months since my father passed away. Seems odd to spell that out. It seems like it was only a couple of weeks ago. The grieving process is not something I knew intimately until now. It has been a revelation, and a...
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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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