Past Society Events in 2018

 

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March Literary Meeting

Saturday 10th March 2018

 

Lloyd Shepherd, author of The English Monster, first in the Charles Horton series of historical detective novels, gave us a fascinating insight into his work, being interviewed by Julia Kruk.

The series was continued with The Poisoned Island, Savage Magic, and The Detective and the Devil.

 

The Ratcliff Highway murders of 1811, terrible crimes which were later eclipsed in the public consciousness by the Jack the Ripper murders, and largely forgotten, were one of Lloyd's sources of inspiration. The case was influential in the start of properly organised policing and criminal investigation in London.

Charles Horton was a real constable in the Thames River Police, and Lloyd, a former journalist, uses many real historical figures and institutions in his fiction, and weaves a strong thread of unsettling horror and the supernatural into his tales, making them much more than just conventional period crime stories.

 

New Year Meeting

Saturday 20th January 2018

Film Evening

A screening of The Tomb of Ligeia

 

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At our traditional New Year film evening we screened this classic 1964 Roger Corman production, one of his series of films based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe starring the incomparable Vincent Price.

Presented on the anniversary of its US release in 1965!

 

 

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