Reggie Oliver

Mrs. Midnight: and Other Stories

Sui generis

Sic Transit

This is the eighth volume of stories by Reggie Oliver to be published by Tartarus Press and marks the fact that we have published over one hundred of his tales. Oliver's work is notable for its style, wit, humour and depth of characterisation, and also for its profound excursions into the disturbingly bizarre and uncanny. Behind a façade of classical elegance his stories consistently defy convention. 'The Crumblies' is a haunted house story, but is the house haunted by the dead, or the living? A retired civil servant is tormented by guilt, but is it guilt about a real, or an imagined event? In the title story, why are the inhabitants of a high-class brothel so terrified by a client who just likes to throw jam tarts at them? In these and other mysteries, we are taken to a farmhouse in the Dordogne, a Suffolk 'Rehab Clinic', a private island in the Thames, Victorian St John's Wood, the Edinburgh Festival in 1979, and many other unusual destinations. Contents: 'The Old Man of the Woods', 'Coruvorn', 'The Wet Woman', 'A Maze for the Minotaur', 'Shadowy Waters', 'A Fragment of Thucydides', 'The Crumblies', 'Monkey's', 'Collectable', 'Via Mortis', 'A Cabinet of Curiosities', 'The Armies of the Night', 'A Tartarean Century: Author's note'.

A Maze for the Minotaur

Michael Dirda

Thirteen Stories and Two Novellas

Flowers of the Sea

A new retrospective collection! InTHE SEA OF BLOOD by Reggie Oliver brings together some of the finest work from his six collections of stories, and two new works of fiction.A long-dead nun with a fatal gift for prophesy comes to you across a sea of blood...A television reality show host tries to restore a derelict London Music Hall and accidentally uncovers the true identity of Jack the Ripper...A great Shakespearean actor is haunted by his former mistress in the shape of an all too affectionate cat...A terribly strange meeting takes place on a playing field between an officer on leave from the World War I trenches and his former headmaster...An aristocrat tries to exploit a haunted room at his county seat, but has the tables turned on him by a member of the Royal Family...A theatrical landlady has her house taken over by a troupe of midgets who will not leave her alone, even after they are dead...A Pantomime Horse is haunted...The Devil and the Seven Deadly Sins go on holiday to an English seaside resort and create havoc...And many other equally strange and terrible events, all told in Oliver s famously elegant and evocative style.You are in for a sophisticated ride... Nightmarish, terrifying, dangerous, theatrical, often strangely profound, a ride which will inspire and haunt your mind.

Sea of Blood

The ancient city of Morchester with its Dreaming Spires, its gently flowing river Orr, winding through water meadows, its fine old cathedral and close where the rooks caw in immemorial elms as they have done for centuries... A tranquil English scene - but is it? Under the surface dark and terrible things are stirring. A serial killer is on the loose... The Dean is having guilty nightmares... A long dead Bishop of Morchester appears in his choir stall at evensong... A mysterious ring disappears from the cathedral museum... A famous composer is beginning his long descent into Hell...

The Boke of the Divill

Laird Barron

Brian Lumley

Paul Tremblay

Peter Levenda

Barbie Wilde

Molly Tanzer

Bracken MacLeod

Dark Discoveries - Issue #37SupernaturalismAll new Fiction by: Paul Tremblay, Reggie Oliver, Brian Lumley, Bracken MacLeod, Barbie Wilde and Molly TanzerInterviews with: Paul Tremblay, Peter Levenda, Ellen Datlow and more!Articles on: Fantasia Film Festival Reviews by Nancy Kilpatrick, Get out your Violin by Peter Levenda and Featured Film Reviews by Colleen WanglundColumns from Laird Barron, Robert Morrish, Donald Tyson, Brett J. Taleey and Richard Dansky!

Dark Discoveries - Issue #37

We know, from Bram Stoker¿s great book, of Count Dracula¿s adventures in the 1890s as one of the `undead¿. But how did he come to be `undead¿? Using intense historical research and a good deal of speculation, The Dracula Papers, Book I: The Scholar¿s Tale is the first in a series of four books which attempt to answer that question.

The Scholar's Tale

The Dracula Papers

Out of the Woodshed is the first biography of the author of Cold Comfort Farm, but also offers the reader an inside view of literary London from the 1930s until Stella's death in 1989.

A Portrait of Stella Gibbons

Out of the Woodshed

Paul Finch

Are you hungry for some more horror? Do you have an appetite for the abominable? Then you need The Fifth Black Book of Horror. Thirteen morsels of the macabre for those with a taste for terror. With stories by Reggie Oliver; Paul Finch; David A. Riley; Craig Herbertson; Rosalie Parker; Ian C. Strachan; David Williamson; Marcus Gold; Richard Staines; Anna Taborska; Raymond Vaughn, and two by John Llewellyn Probert, it's a veritable feast of fear!

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