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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 3, 2019 19:58:43 GMT
Nice tribute - sounds like he was a great guy. |
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Post by mcannon on Mar 4, 2019 2:48:41 GMT
A very sad loss. Sympathies to his family and friends.
His anthologies introduced me to many classic horror authors and tales that I may never have otherwise read - all my thanks, sir.
Mark
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Post by helrunar on Mar 4, 2019 3:15:46 GMT
Very sad news.
H.
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 4, 2019 9:23:14 GMT
Nice tribute - sounds like he was a great guy. He really was. His contribution to the genre almost goes without saying here, but his bringing to light a lot of forgotten Jamesian authors is the highlight for me. But above all I liked him as a man - a gentleman and a scholar, if that isn't too cliched a phrase. He supported Ghosts & Scholars since the first issue in 1979, without a break; and in recent years, every time I put a new issue out, he would phone me and we'd spend an hour talking about ghost stories, and the world in general. He was lovely. Last time I chatted to him, after the current G&S came out a few months ago, he sounded absolutely dreadful, and the doctors had no idea what was wrong. So in my heart of hearts I can't say I'm entirely surprised at what has happened. I did harbour the hope that they might be able to diagnose the problem and sort it out for him, though. I didn't cry when my mother died a few years ago - I cried for Hugh this morning. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 4, 2019 12:49:43 GMT
While I had no contact with Hugh Lamb (like that I did with Richard Dalby), as his anthologies still mean a lot to me, the news is very sad.
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Post by cromagnonman on Mar 4, 2019 14:31:44 GMT
Deeply sorry to learn of this.
I had the privilege and the pleasure of meeting Hugh just the once, at the old Victoria Park Plaza pulp & paperback fair back in '05. Michel Parry and Mike Ashley were both there that day too which gave the day something of a Beatles get together flavour for me.
I remember Hugh as being a thoroughly decent man; warm, witty and approachable and generous with both his time and his knowledge. Sincere condolences to his family and friends at this difficult time.
It is sobering to reflect that of the four evangelists of 70s genre anthologies - Haining, Parry, Lamb and Ashley - only Ashley now remains. At such occasions I always think Kipling summed it up best:
If I have given you delight
By aught that I have done,
Let me lie quiet in that night
Which shall be yours anon:
And for the little, little, span
The dead are borne in mind,
Seek not to question other than
The books I leave behind.
RIP HL.
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Post by Middoth on Mar 4, 2019 16:42:27 GMT
The best epitaph ever said. |
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Post by ripper on Mar 5, 2019 8:55:17 GMT
Very sad news. He was a master anthologist who introduced me to so many authors via reading his wonderful books in the pre-internet days when information on less well known authors was so much more difficult to come by. Condolences to his family and friends. RIP Hugh.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 6, 2019 8:38:22 GMT
Deeply sorry to learn of this. I had the privilege and the pleasure of meeting Hugh just the once, at the old Victoria Park Plaza pulp & paperback fair back in '05. Michel Parry and Mike Ashley were both there that day too which gave the day something of a Beatles get together flavour for me. I remember Hugh as being a thoroughly decent man; warm, witty and approachable and generous with both his time and his knowledge. Sincere condolences to his family and friends at this difficult time. It is sobering to reflect that of the four evangelists of 70s genre anthologies - Haining, Parry, Lamb and Ashley - only Ashley now remains. At such occasions I always think Kipling summed it up best: If I have given you delight By aught that I have done, Let me lie quiet in that night Which shall be yours anon: And for the little, little, span The dead are borne in mind, Seek not to question other than The books I leave behind. RIP HL. That was a particularly wonderful pulp fair (this poster's first. Vault was but ten weeks old at time: also in attendance; Sam Pfeffer, a very glam rock Syd Bounds, Ted Ball & Eddie Gibson, and the Stephen Jones massive featuring MMS, Mark Samuels, Kim Newman). Hugh was indeed lovely; warm, brimming with anecdotes, and very funny: ("This is a literary book, Kev, no pictures, and you read it carefully with your fingers going along the line, like a proper book.") As Ripper notes, you had to put real effort into compiling material for anthologies pre-internet, and his, be they Victorian revivals, all new material, or combinations of both, were invariably a macabre joy. Crom, I'd include Mary Danby, the much-maligned R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Ramsey Campbell and David A. Sutton on the list of go-to 'seventies anthologists. They all brought something different to the party. It truly was a golden era. |
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Post by piglingbland on Mar 12, 2019 19:54:09 GMT
I was very saddened to hear this news. I've known Hugh since the 70s and remain very proud that he used two of my yarns in Cold Fear: New Tales of Terror and The Taste of Fear. He did the genre great service in uncovering gems of Victorian horror. When you picked up such titles as Tales from a Gas-lit Graveyard and Victorian Nightmares you knew you'd be reading something special...
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 27, 2019 13:48:38 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 2, 2019 12:52:06 GMT
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Post by humgoo on Jun 25, 2019 17:02:02 GMT
It seems to me the greatest tribute to Mr. Lamb had been paid before his death, with HarperCollins republishing six books he edited and introduced during the '80s. Nothing makes an anthologist happier and prouder, I suppose, than seeing their works well circulated in affordable paperbacks and actually read by people. That beats receiving any lifetime award from any society, I guess.
I used to regard HarperCollins as just another big publisher, but now I can't help admiring them for what they do (they have also published Richard Dalby's anthologies). Well done!
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Post by humgoo on Jul 31, 2019 10:08:52 GMT
Mr. Lamb's son Richard has posted the following on the Hugh Lamb site: "Several projects have been discussed among several parties, but I can reveal at least one project coming to fruition very soon. Watch this space for a new edition of Victorian Tales of Terror.
Hugh Lamb’s fourth book, first released in 1974, will soon be available again in a new edition, both in Kindle and Paperback. This edition will include new cover art, a new introduction and the inclusion of a story that was originally planned for the first volume but was ultimately removed.
This will be the first of what we hope will be a run of republished books from Hugh’s early collection. And perhaps there could even be some new anthologies to come."
Good news indeed. I hope they will keep the original introduction besides adding a new one, though, as Mr. Lamb's introductions are always informative and interesting, and are still relevant today. For example, in the "Foreword" to The Thrill of Horror, he writes: "Readers of ghost and horror stories—and there are none more faithful—will know from bitter experience the situation of being faced with a 'new' anthology, in which perhaps half the stories will already be in their possession, in other books.
The unfairness of this does not just extend to being forced to see the same old stuff again and again. To obtain those other stories they do not have, means paying today's book prices (which are no joke) and getting what amounts to half the value of their money." He wrote that in 1975. But we still see the kind of old new anthology he complained of.
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Post by inspiredlamb on Nov 4, 2019 17:44:22 GMT
It's finally ready. The new edition of Victorian Tales of Terror. Out of print for 43 years, Hugh's third anthology now comes with the addition of an extra story, originally planned for the first edition, as well as a new introduction. I have kept everything that was in the original. At the moment, due to issues with Amazon, it is only available in paperback. Available on Amazon: Amazon UKAmazon US
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