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- Mrs Midnight
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Stories
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- Reggie
Oliver
paperback reprint and ebook versions now
available
- A TV reality show host helps to restore an East End
music hall and uncovers the dreadful secret of Mrs Midnight and her
Animal Comedians. . . . A historian travels to Switzerland to ghost the
autobiography of an exiled Balkan king and encounters a sinister cult. .
. . The Master of an Oxford college tries to introduce a dubious piece
of modern sculpture into his college chapel with dire consequences. . .
. A strange meeting takes place on a playing field between an officer on
leave from the trenches and his former headmaster. . . .
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- The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver’s
fifth collection of ‘strange’ stories are as varied and unusual as ever,
though, as in previous volumes, the theatre forms the milieu of a number
of his tales. But the theatres are not just English ones, in the
provinces and the West End: one is on the Black Sea; another in
post-colonial Kenya. Themes are equally varied, but underlying all is a
deep sense of the spiritual under-currents just below the surface of
everyday existence, and the precariousness of ‘normality’.
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Reggie Oliver is an English playwright,
biographer and writer of ghost stories. His work has appeared in a
number of anthologies, including the Year’s
Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth
Book of Best New Horror. Mrs Midnight and Other
Stories contains: "Mrs Midnight", "Countess Otho", "Meeting
with Mike", "The Dancer in the Dark", "Mr Pigsny", "The Brighton
Redemption", "You Have Nothing to Fear", "The Philosophy of the Damned",
"The Mortlake Manuscript", "The Look", "The Giacometti Crucifixion","A
Piece of Elsewhere", "Minos or
Rhadamanthus". ISBN
978-1-905784-43-1
The title story, 'Mrs Midnight', is available to
read for free as a pdf here.
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- Mrs Midnight and Other
Stories is a paperback of 381 pages, printed
lithographically.
- Publication 16th January 2012.
- Also available as an
ebook.
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- Reviews:
- "Readers who like their
horrors subtle but unsettling will find this volume much to their
liking." Publishers Weekly
- "…by miles, the best living exponent of the spooky
yarn," Barry Humphries.
- "Mrs Midnight and other
stories is one of the best books I have read this year." -
Henry Wessells, The Endless
Bookshelf
- "The latest collection
(the fifth) by this extraordinary author assembles a bunch of excellent
tales which confirm his uncommon talent as a teller of creepy, uncanny
stories." - Mario Guslandi, The British Fantasy
Society
A new interview with Reggie Oliver can be viewed
here:
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Mrs Midnight contains
illustrations by the author:
"Mrs
Midnight" by Reggie Oliver
"The Brighton
Redemption" by Reggie Oliver
Page updated 9th January 2012
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