Book description
Ten strange stories from a modern master story-teller, Reggie Oliver’s impressive tales range from an archaeological dig on an island in the Mediterranean, to seventeenth century Milan. With a wide range of eminently authentic characters, Oliver insinuates strangeness into the lives of his unwary protagonists and the results vary from…
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The English writer Reggie Oliver is a modern master of the weird story.
This Haunted Heaven is his ninth collection of short stories, and it is perhaps his best since Holidays from Hell. His work could perhaps be characterised as being in the "traditional" vein of supernatural fiction, but that tradition would also include writers like Robert Aickman and Daphne Du Maurier.
Sometimes, there is no ghost in the accepted sense; sometimes, you are simply immersed into a world where something is not quite right, and you can't quite put your finger on why. The title story concerns a Cybele-worshipping…
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