In this gently suspenseful true crime history lesson, Dead Sleep host Nancy Miller traces the origins of the word "Gaslight," from a psychological thriller about a conniving husband who pushes his wife to the brink of madness...to "gaslight" as a modern verb for deceptive manipulation.
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"So You Think You've Been Gaslit?" by Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker:
The 1940 British version of Gaslight:
The 1944 Hollywood version of Gaslight:
Patrick Hamilton Archive @ University of Texas: