New on LibriVox, a free audiobook for The Doom of London, with a fine American reader…

“Here are six stories, each one describing a disaster afflicting London, that were popularly serialized during 1903-1904 in Pearson’s Magazine. The tales depict (1) a deep freeze and unprecedented snowfall; (2) a heavy, blinding, paralyzing blanket of fog; (3) a widespread killer virus; (4) a fraudulent scheme causing financial panic; (5) a minor electrical accident in a tunnel that spirals into catastrophe; and (6) most of the city’s water supply, reportedly contaminated with deadly bubonic bacillus, puts the population in great fear of plague.”

Archive.org also has the same as a torrent. I see that they also have the book The London Fog: A Biography (2015), which has a few pages of details of ‘fog doom’ London tales of previous decades, such as Barr’s earlier 1890s “The Doom of London”.

Likely to appeal to those who were interested in my London Reimagined, the fog-shrouded London of Sherlock Holmes and H.G. Wells, and possibly even fans of more recent movies such as the enjoyable action-thriller London has Fallen (2016).