{"id":19467,"date":"2018-11-10T06:56:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T03:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=19467"},"modified":"2018-11-10T06:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T03:56:53","slug":"the-doom-of-london-1903-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/the-doom-of-london-1903-04\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doom of London (1903-04)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\/the-doom-of-london-by-fred-m-white\/\">on LibriVox<\/a>, a free audiobook for <em>The Doom of London<\/em>, with a fine American reader&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Here are six stories, each one describing a disaster afflicting London, that were popularly serialized during 1903-1904 in Pearson\u2019s 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\u2019s water supply, reportedly contaminated with deadly bubonic bacillus, puts the population in great fear of plague.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Archive.org also has the same <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/doom_of_london_ls_1811_librivox\">as a torrent<\/a>.  I see that they also have the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/31jan2\/page\/n115\">The London Fog: A Biography<\/a><\/em> (2015), which has a few pages of details of &#8216;fog doom&#8217; London tales of previous decades, such as Barr&#8217;s earlier 1890s &#8220;The Doom of London&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Likely to appeal to those who were interested in my <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/01\/london-reimagined-an-anthology-of-visions-of-the-future-city-free-ebook\/\">London Reimagined<\/a><\/em>, 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 <em>London has Fallen<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on LibriVox, a free audiobook for The Doom of London, with a fine American reader&#8230; &#8220;Here are six stories, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/the-doom-of-london-1903-04\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}