Rob Lamb
speaker
6,505 appearances
29 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
Rob Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Once more we return to the rich magical world of Jim Henson's 1986 classic Labyrinth.
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Having previously covered two other of its creatures here on The Monster Fact and the film itself on Weird House Cinema.
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Today I want to talk about the most terrifying denizens of the Goblin King's Labyrinth, creatures that have unsettled children for almost four decades now.
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the fireies of the fire gang.
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You remember them.
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Do not tell me that you don't, because I know even now you're picturing their lanky vulture like bodies, their huge ears, their bright red and orange fur, and those piercing mad eyes.
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The Labyrinth Bestiary by S.
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Binde, with illustrations by Iris Complete, devotes no fewer than eight pages to illustrations of the Fieries.
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along with notations that describe them as chaotic, unhinged, good natured troublemakers.
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And that is essentially correct, but Binde also points out that quote, anyone adverse to combustion, disorder, and the possibility of dismemberment is advised to steer clear of their revelry.
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Yes, because for starters, the fieries are so named not only for their brilliant flame like colorization, but also for their innate pyrokinetic abilities.
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And even more terrifying, they possess the ability to detach and reattach their own limbs and heads at will.
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They can also remove their own eyeballs, roll them as dice, and then swallow them in order to return their eyeballs to their sockets.
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But all of this
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Reaches a fever pitch when these inhuman hedonists engage in what I can only describe as a dismemberment party.
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Fieries will dance around a great fire and pull themselves apart with gleeful enthusiasm.
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They'll employ their disembodied legs and heads as clubs and balls in morbid games of croquet.
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They will even swap body parts with each other and reconstitute themselves into multi-limbed forms that cavort through the forest.
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The only rule they keep is thou shalt only throw thine own head.
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