Marshal Latham
Marshal Latham is known around Escape Artists as Swamp and runs the podcast Journey Into…
People
Damien Laughlin
DAMIEN LAUGHLIN is a twenty-three year old writer from Derry, Northern Ireland. He’s an incurable people-watcher, eavesdropper and notetaker, and in the last year he found an outlet for these habits while studying Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast.
He’s recently been featured in a new zine called Penny Mag, which publishes 500-word prose pieces and puts them together with a illustration. Subscribers to Penny have three illustrated stories delivered to their email inbox every week – a fine alternative to the clickbait that invades all our electronic devices.
H. R. Laurence
H. R. Laurence grew up in North Yorkshire, and now works in the film industry in London. His weird fiction and sword & sorcery stories have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Old Moon Quarterly, and Beyond & Within: Folk Horror from Flame Tree Press.
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English writer and poet. Most famous for Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1928), whose frank representation of sexual matters and class differences shocked many at the time and led to Penguin books being put on trial in the UK in 1960 under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation, which made him few friends in the establishment and he long suffered the reputation of a writer who squandered his talents on pornography, only recieving a re-evaluation much later that acknowledged his imagination and moral seriousness. Lawrence’s writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His further novels include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow & Women in Love.
Margery Lawrence
The best-known supernatural works of Margery Lawrence include Number Seven, Queer Street, a collection that collects the case histories of an occult detective, Dr Miles Pennoyer, as related by his assistant Jerome Latimer. Lawrence stated that this series was inspired by Algernon Blackwood’s John Silence stories and Dion Fortune’s Dr. Taverner series. Like May Sinclair before her, Lawrence became a confirmed spiritualist and believer in reincarnation in later years. According to the author, “My interest in it dates actually from the moment when I saw a near relation three nights after he died, when he gave me specific instructions about the finding of a box containing important papers. They were found precisely where he said–and from that moment I became deeply interested in what…I have called the “Other Side.” Somewhere that man was obviously still alive! Somewhere he was thinking of us, anxious to help, caring what happened; in a word, he was still alive somewhere, and I was determined to find out where.“
Moaner T. Lawrence
An active member of the HWA, Moaner T. Lawrence comes from Long Island, New York and has been listening to Pseudopod since 2007. He has been the face of Rue Morgue Magazine’s German branch since 2011, and has also been a regular contributor to Germany’s largest horror magazine, Virus, since 2014. In 2015, Moaner became Assistant Editor at Pseudopod, and now helps with media relations. The pod’s resident ‘man-child of the night’ also has two tales on Pseudopod: “Bad Newes from New England,” a colorful re-imagining of the first American Thanksgiving; and “The Great American Nightmare,” a Lovecraftian yarn where C’thulhu is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States of America. You can find lots of Moaner’s old interviews with actors and artists on TheHorrorInBlog, and read his rants (Now available in 140-word bursts!) on Twitter.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as “absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories”. Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla, and The House by the Churchyard.