Dramas from the Depths

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Reggie Oliver (b. 1952) is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. Reggie Oliver has been a professional playwright, actor, and theatre director since 1975. Liver’s biography of his aunt Stella Gibbons, Out of the Woodshed, was published by Bloomsbury in 1998; and he is a contributor to the historical magazine History Today. He has written about ghost stories for such journals as Supernatural Tales, All Hallows, Wormwood, and Weirdly Supernatural. E lives in Suffolk and is married to the artist and actress Joanna Dunham.

Reggie Oliver has been a professional playwright, actor, and theatre director since 1975. Oliver’s biography of his aunt Stella Gibbons, Out of the Woodshed, was published by Bloomsbury in 1998; and he is a contributor to the historical magazine History Today. 1952) is an English playwright, biographer and writer of ghost stories. He has written about ghost stories for such journals as Supernatural Tales, All Hallows, Wormwood, and Weirdly Supernatural.

This 900 page collection of Reggie Oliver's ghost stories and supernatural fiction contains the entire contents of his first three books, including two that are now scarce and hard to find This is going to be the standard for all of Oliver's books: gorgeous design, stunning type work, all of the fiction, a handful of critical essays, oversize format.

Edition Details
  • Oversize format, 900+ pages.
  • Includes dozens of illustrations by Reggie Oliver.
  • Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.
Contents:
  • Introduction by Reggie Oliver (Essay)
  • Beside the Shrill Sea
  • Feng Shui
  • In Arcadia
  • The Evil Eye
  • Tiger in the Snow
  • Miss Marchant's Cause
  • Garden Gods
  • The Black Cathedral
  • The Golden Basilica
  • The Boy in Green Velvet
  • Death Mask
  • A Warning to the Antiquary
  • The Garden of Strangers
  • The Seventeenth Sister
  • The Copper Wig
  • The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini
  • The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler
  • Lapland Nights
  • Among the Tombs
  • The Skins
  • The Sermons of Dr Hodnet
  • Magus Zoroaster
  • Parma Violets
  • The Time of Blood
  • Difficult People
  • The Constant Rake
  • The Blue Room
  • A Nightmare Sang
  • The Babe of the Abyss
  • Bloody Bill
  • A Christmas Card
  • The Devil's Number
  • Puss-Cat
  • Mr Poo-Poo
  • Grab a Granny Night
  • Mmm-Delicious
  • Music by Moonlight
  • The Man in the Grey Bedroom
  • Blind Man's Box
  • Shades of the Prison House
  • The Silver Cord
  • The End of History
  • The Old Silence
  • The Road from Damascus
  • The Children of Monte Rosa
  • A Donkey at the Mysteries
  • The Devil's Funeral
  • Baskerville's Midgets
  • M.R. James: The Scholar and the Story Teller (Essay)
  • Ghost Stories of Another Antiquary: Montague Summers and the Supernatural Tale (Essay)
  • Stella Gibbons, a Writer and the Supernatural (Essay)
  • Putting on the Surrealist Hat: The Decadent Aesthetic of Jules Charnier
  • Religion, Evil, and Obsession in the Ghostly Stories of Henry James (Essay)
  • The Sleeping Portrait of Monkshood Hall
  • Temporary Disappearance of a School
  • Mrs. Midnight's Animal Comedians
  • A Cautionary Tale Concerning Beards
  • The Rev. Arthur Gasport and His Daemonograph
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