Hugh Lamb: bibliography in progress

[dem bones]

Hugh Lamb anthologies published in the UK

From the dust-jacket of A Wave Of Fear: Photo: Bob Marchant

A Tide of Terror: an Anthology of Rare Horror Stories (W.H. Allen, 1972)
A Wave Of Fear (W.H. Allen, 1973, Coronet, 1976)
Victorian Tales Of Terror (W.H. Allen, 1974: Coronet, 1976)
The Thrill of Horror: 22 Terrifying Tales (W. H. Allen, 1978)
Terror by Gaslight (W.H. Allen, 1975, Coronet, 1977)
The Star Book of Horror No. 1 (Star, 1975)
The Star Book of Horror No. 2 (Star, 1976)
The Taste of Fear (W. H. Allen, 1976: Coronet, 1977)
Return from the Grave (W. H. Allen, 1976)
Victorian Nightmares (W.H. Allen, 1977, Coronet, 1980)
Cold Fear: New Tales of Terror (Severn House, 1977)
The Man-Wolf: And Other Horrors (W.H. Allen, 1978)
Forgotten Tales of Terror (Methuen, 1978: Magnum, 1978)
Tales from a Gaslit Graveyard (W.H. Allen, 1979, Coronet, 1980
New Tales of Terror (Severn House, 1981)
Best Tales Of Terror Of Erckmann-Chatrian (Millington, 1981)
Gaslit Nightmares (Futura, 1988)
Gaslit Nightmares 2 (Futura, 1991)
Terror by Gaslight (Constable, Coronet, 1992) ** A substantially different collection to the 1975 book of the same title.

Several of the W. H. Allen books were published in US editions by Tapplinger, and Dover have recently reissued a number under new titles (e.g., Victorian Nightmares becomes A Bottomless Grave And Other Victorian Tales of Horror)

Equation Chillers series

In the Dark: Tales of Terror by E. Nesbit (Equation, 1988)
The Black Reaper: Tales of Terror by Bernard Capes (Equation, 1989)
Stories in the Dark: Tales of Terror by Jerome K. Jerome, Barry Pain & Robert Barr (Equation, 1989)

Hugh edits and introduces Robert W. Chambers - Out of the Dark: Volume One: Origins (Ash-Tree Press, 1998)

Also of interest is Barbara & Christopher Roden (eds.) - Forgotten Ghosts: The Supernatural Anthologies of Hugh Lamb (Ash-Tree, 1996): i've not seen a copy, but the contents are as follows:

Barbara & Christopher Roden - Foreword
Mike Ashley - Introduction

H. Rider Haggard - Only A Dream
Frank Norris - The Ship That Saw A Ghost
C. D. Heriot - The Trapdoor
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward - Kentucky’s Ghost
W. L. George - Waxworks

There was an early version of the E. Nesbit anthology published by Magnet as Tales Of Terror in 1983. A decent enough effort though hardly indispensable as it only compiles 7 stories (as opposed to the Equation edition's 14)

Hugh also contributes a fine essay, Victorian Terror, to Gaslight & Ghosts, Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher's mish-mash collection published by Robinson to celebrate the 1988 World Fantasy Convention. Mike Ashley wrote an enlightening piece on the Not At Night series for the same book.

His first book was The Story Of Water, a sixteen page effort published by the National Water Council which appeared prior to A Tide Of Terror and may even have run to a second edition.

Hugh Lamb UK Anthologies: A-Z by authors

John Mains' recent interview with Hugh is at All Things Horror

For the covers and contents we've yet to get around to, see
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Thanks to Ripper for getting the ball rolling!

[allthingshorror]

Just to let you know - I've talked with Hugh about the possibility of getting a website put together for him. Would probably happen in April/May '09. He seems interested - but this would be something I would really want to jobshare with someone - as I have another three websites - plus the ones I normally do to get up and running...

[Calenture]

Nov 15, 2008 10:49:10 GMT @allthingshorror said:

Just to let you know - I've talked with Hugh about the possibility of getting a website put together for him. Would probably happen in April/May '09. He seems interested - but this would be something I would really want to jobshare with someone - as I have another three websites - plus the ones I normally do to get up and running...

What kind of site would you have in mind for Hugh? Something interactive, like a blog or forum, html, or flash? Personally I actively dislike flash, although used sparingly it can be interesting - and I think I remember you use that.

If Dem's around and has time, he thinks a lot of the Hugh Lamb anthologies.

Definitely a worthwhile project anyway, so it'll be worth watching.

[dem bones]

Dover have reissued four of Hugh Lamb's collections, none of which i've seen, so i'm sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong!


From the contents list, A Bottomless Grave and Other Victorian Tales of Horror (2001) is a straight reissue of the UK Victorian Nightmares.

Not 100% certain of the others, but:

the blurb for Tales From A Gaslit Graveyard (2004) claims it's a straight reprint of the UK Tales From A Gaslit Graveyard

Gaslit Nightmares (2006) from the blurb, almost certainly same as UK Gaslit Nightmares.

Gaslit Horror (2008). Looks to me as if the contents are as the Futura Gaslit Nightmares 2).

[mrhappy]

The 2006 edition of Gaslit Nightmares has this notation on the copyright page:

Bibliographical Note: This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is a new anthology of sixteen stories reprinted from the work Gaslit Nightmares: An Anthology of Victorian Tales of Terror, edited by Hugh Lamb, originally published by Futura Publications, London, in 1988.

The Futura volume contains 22 stories. Here is what didn't make the cut:

Bernard Capes - The Black Reaper
Charles J. Mansford - Maw-Sayah
Dick Donovan - The Mystic Spell
Joel Chandler Harris - The Late Mr. Watkins Of Georgia
Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Ghost In The mill
Mrs G. Linnaeus Banks - The Pride Of The Corbyns

I don't think I would have noticed this if I wasn't looking for a copy of The Black Reaper. I came here and found it listed under Gaslit Nightmares and thought to myself "don't I have that"? Apparently, I did and I didn't.

Oh well, the vault comes through again with useful information and I now have Futura copy on the way. I'm curious to know if the Dover reprint of Gaslit Nightmares 2 is abridged as well. Thankfully I have the Futura edition of that one.

[dem bones]

many thanks for the additional information on the Dover Gaslit Nightmares, mr happy. I don't have the Dover reprint of Victorian Nightmares (retitled A Bottomless Grave & Other Stories) but i'm almost certain all 21 stories are present and correct - or at least I was until i read your post. can anyone confirm this?

[Jojo Lapin X]

Jan 16, 2012 19:48:52 GMT dem bones said:

I don't have the Dover reprint of Victorian Nightmares (retitled A Bottomless Grave & Other Stories) but i'm almost certain all 21 stories are present and correct - or at least I was until i read your post. can anyone confirm this?

Yes, the contents are the same.

[dem bones]

Thanks for confirming, JoJo. As to Gaslit Horror, turns out it's a paltry thirteen story selection from the two Gaslit Nightmare anthologies. TOC as follows.

Mrs G. Linnaeus Banks - The Pride Of The Corbyns
Charles J. Mansford - Maw-Sayah
L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace - The Mystery Of The Felwyn Tunnel
Bernard Capes - The Black Reaper
S. Levett-Yates - The Devil's Manuscript
Dick Donovan - The Mystic Spell
Lafcadio Hearn - Nightmare-Touch
Robert W. Chambers - Un Peu D'Amour
John C. Shannon - The Spirit Of The Fjord
Frank Frankfort Moore - The Strange Story Of Northavon Priory
William Hope Hodgson - A Tropical Horror
W. Bourne Cooke - The Woman With A Candle
Perceval Landon - Mrs. Rivers's Journal

[mrhappy]

The two components, for me at least, that made Hugh Lamb's anthologies enjoyable were rarity of the selections and informative introductions. From 1998-2003 L.H. Maynard and M.P.N. Sims edited two series - Enigmatic Tales (98-00) and Darkness Rising (01-03) - which usually featured a contribution from Mr. Lamb that hit on both of my criteria. Hugh Lamb's Tales from the Grave ran in 9 issues of Enigmatic Tales (the odd boy out was issue 3 which featured a similar column titled Richard Dalby's Ghosts from the Past) and, while not titled, 5 of the 7 regular issues of Darkness Rising featured a similar contribution. Here are the contents listed by issue:

Enigmatic Tales

Issue 1: The Queer Picture - Bernard Capes
Issue 1: Ill-Steekit Ephraim - Howard Pease
Issue 2: On the Raft - R.E. Vernede
Issue 4: His Wife - Zita Inez Ponder
Issue 5: The Spectre of Rislip Abbey - Dick Donovan
Issue 6: The House in the Wood - H.W.F. Tatham
Issue 6: The Skull - Francis C. Prevot
Issue 7: The Patch - Phillip Murray
Issue 8: Green Slime - J. Dyott Matthews
Issue 9: The Serpent Woman - Mrs. S.G.C. Middlemore
Issue 10: A Wonderful Guy - George R. Sims

Darkness Rising

Issue 1: Marriott's Monkey - Howard Jones
Issue 2: The Black Statue - Huan Mee
Issue 3: The Were-wolf - Mrs. S.G.C. Middlemore
Issue 4: In the Wheat - Maurice Level
Issue 6: Ha! Ha! - George R. Sims

Sixteen stories over 15 issues which would make a slim, but very enjoyable, collection. So for those of you that enjoyed Hugh's work these stories may serve as a kind of encore anthology if you wanted to track them down.

Happy hunting!

Mr. Happy

[dem bones]

Many thanks for posting the above, mr. happy. To get the hunt under way;

Zita Inez Ponder's His Wife featured on our 2011 Vault Advent Calendar (we've also had two from 'Philip Murray', though not, as yet The Patch).

J. Dyott Matthews' The Green Slime is from Christine Campbell Thomson's Keep On The Light

Huan Mee's The Black Statue was revived in Alden H. Norton & Sam Moscowitz's Great Untold Stories Of Fantasy & Horror

You can download Bernard Capes' collection The Fabulists in its entirety from Archive Org.

I think i'm stuck.

[dem bones]

Another one. Howard Pease's Border Ghost Stories is available for free dowload HERE. Alternatively, if you just want to try ill-Steekit Ephraim, dowload the attached no frills pdf.

Attachments:

ill-Steekit Ephriam.pdf (62.64 KB)

[mrhappy]

Richard Lamb (Hugh's son) posted this on facebook earlier today:

New website for Hugh Lamb, Victorian ghost story anthologist, M. R. James enthusiast, and my techno-phobic father, is now live at:

hughlamb.com
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Wonderful news!

Mr. Happy

[dem bones]

Sept 26, 2017 20:16:53 GMT mrhappy said:

Richard Lamb (Hugh's son) posted this on facebook earlier today:

New website for Hugh Lamb, Victorian ghost story anthologist, M. R. James enthusiast, and my techno-phobic father, is now live at:

hughlamb.com
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Wonderful news!

Mr. Happy

This is indeed cause for celebration. Site looks lovely, too.

Thanks for letting us know, Mr. Happy.

[ropardoe]

Sept 26, 2017 21:26:58 GMT dem bones said:

Sept 26, 2017 20:16:53 GMT mrhappy said:

Richard Lamb (Hugh's son) posted this on facebook earlier today:

New website for Hugh Lamb, Victorian ghost story anthologist, M. R. James enthusiast, and my techno-phobic father, is now live at:

hughlamb.com
-

Wonderful news!

Mr. Happy

This is indeed cause for celebration. Site looks lovely, too.

Thanks for letting us know, Mr. Happy.

Goodness me, what a lovely site that is.  Hugh's son has put a huge amount of work into it - it looks great and it's full of information.  It'll be a valuable reference source. I was only speaking to Hugh a week or so ago (we have a good long chat on the phone every year!) and he was telling me that the only way he accesses the Net is over his son's shoulder!  I can sympathise!  He didn't mention the website!

[inspiredlamb]

Hi, guys. Thanks so much for your kind words about the site. It's been a labour of love, and sometimes I don't have the time to dedicate to it that I would like, but it's ever-evolving and I would welcome any suggestions for other things to include. 

Richard