Hugh Lamb
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A Bottomless Grave & Other Victorian Tales of Terror
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1977
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Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others
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1988
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Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
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1975
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Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard
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1979
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And Midnight Never Come
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Three Men in the Dark: Tales of Terror by Jerome K. Jerome, Barry Pain and Robert Barr
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A Wave of Fear: A Classic Horror Anthology
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1974
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The Thrill of Horror
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1975
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Gaslit Horror: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes and Others
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2008
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The Taste of Fear: Thirteen Eerie Tales of Horror
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“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so much of our present knowledge of subjects like medicine, public health, electricity, chemistry and agriculture, were being, if not laid, at least 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. No mental effort is required to read 'The Weird Woman', no seeking for hidden meanings; there are no complexities of plot, no allegory on the state of the world. And so it should be. 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.
(introduction to "The Weird Woman")”
― Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
'Speak, hound! Or, by heaven, this night shall witness two murders instead of one!'
Those were the days.
(introduction to "The Weird Woman")”
― Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
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