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Post by allthingshorror on Aug 15, 2008 8:39:01 GMT
Should be posting a great interview with Hugh next week sometime on the allthingshorror site.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 15, 2008 10:02:16 GMT
I'll certainly be looking forward to that!
It's hardly as though we exhausted the subject of his books on the old board but, even more so than Michel Parry, Hugh is woefully under-represented on Vault Mk. II which is a great shame. I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Lamb (along with Michel, Mike Ashley and the much-missed Syd Bounds - what an afternoon that was!) at the pulp fair in 2005. He may have retired from the anthology game, but Hugh's still as enthusiastic about his Victorian horrors and Edwardian creepies as ever! One of the greats and no mistake.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Aug 16, 2008 0:22:00 GMT
Fantastic. I've only had limited dealings with Hugh but he was, towards a total stranger, polite, helpful, encouraging and enthusiastic to help. A gentleman and a scholar!
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Post by allthingshorror on Aug 22, 2008 0:57:28 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Aug 22, 2008 8:01:08 GMT
Johnny: What stories have you unearthed that truly amazed you?
HUGH: Not so much stories, as authors. I brought back into print for the first time writers like A.C Benson, Eleanor Scott, Bernard Capes and Frederick Cowles. They had all written books of ghost stories, totally ignored since they first appeared. I was proudest of all at putting into book form for the first time a ghost story by M.R. James, ‘The Experiment.’ This was by any reckoning, a major find; I was very lucky that nobody else had spotted it in over 45 years.
Really enjoyed that! I particularly like that Hugh acknowledges his influences in the anthology field - huge names, responsible for the very best pre-seventies collections: he couldn't have picked tougher acts to emulate! R. C. Bull's anthologies are largely forgotten these days, but they're the closest to what Hugh would be getting up to with Victorian Nightmares, Tales From A Gaslit Graveyard & co.
You can add 'The Star Book of Horror 2' (1976) to the biblio, and I believe A Bottomless Grave is a straight reprint of Victorian Nightmares? It certainly runs the same stories. The book of his that's always fascinated me, and has so far proved elusive, is his very first The Story Of Water written for (and about ?) the water board. I always wanted to turn that into the big Vault cult book but none of us have ever seen a copy!
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Post by alansjf on Aug 23, 2008 19:21:18 GMT
A fine interview. Lamb is one of the great modern anthologists, for all that it's over ten years since Gaslit Nightmares 2 ... a shame that.
I hope Dover end up reprinting all of them - I'm still missing copies of Cold Fear and The Man-Wolf...
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Post by helrunar on Apr 17, 2017 22:26:01 GMT
The site doesn't seem to exist any longer or if it does, the interview is gone... all I saw was a screen full of internet horror claptrap.
I started reading this area of the boards because I am interested in learning more about the Mayflower Book of Black Magic series... clearly, I also need to investigate Hugh Lamb's anthologies! I think he had something to do with one of my favorite television series, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, as well. Oops, mistake: that was Hugh Greene, who seems to have been the brother of Graham Greene.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 18, 2017 8:42:28 GMT
I started reading this area of the boards because I am interested in learning more about the Mayflower Book of Black Magic series... clearly, I also need to investigate Hugh Lamb's anthologies! H. Throw in Peter Haining and you've the three main culprits for at least one reader's enduring obsession with supernatural/ horror fiction. Hugh's anthologies span the Victorian specific, Victorian-Edwardian, originals and century-spanning rarities, and, in one notable instance, all original. Recommended titles. Everything you can get hold of. Biblio here. Michel shared Hugh's love of Victorian Horrors, it's just that he had an equal fondness for fiction seeped in sex, drugs, agro and Devil worship. Sometimes this led to problems with Her Majesty's customs officers (and Mick Farren). Recommended titles. Everything you can get hold of. Biblio here. |
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Post by sandy090 on Jul 28, 2017 4:10:55 GMT
I cannot agree with you more.
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