Masques of Satan: Twelves Tales and a Novella

By Reggie Oliver

This is Reggie Oliver's third collection of stories, now reprinted, which contains many tales set in the world of the theatre which he knows so well. 'Puss-Cat' concerns a great Shakespearian actor and an all too attentive theatre cat, 'The Road from Damascus' takes a young actor on a dark journey through theatrical politics, and 'Mr Poo-Poo' is a children's entertainer who has obsessive desires and an unhealthy preoccupation with Hell. In other stories a sinister medium enthrals a writer of detective stories in 'The Old Silence', a family visiting a famous country house find themselves in the mysterious 'grey bedroom' with a very strange guide, and in 'The Children of Monte Rosa' a boy with his parents on holiday in Portugal is invited to lunch by an expatriate couple and meets a boy who seems to be the wrong size. The novella 'Shades of the Prison House' about the evolution of evil in an adolescent boy during the course of a summer season of variety at a seaside theatre is one of Oliver's most original and disturbing creations. This book also contains a period piece 'The Silver Cord' set in 1890s London which won the Arthur Machen short story prize. 'Reggie Oliver, quite possibly our finest modern writer of spectral tales.' Ramsey Campbell '... by miles, the best living exponent of the spooky yarn.' Barry Humphries '... among the leading practitioners of classic supernatural fiction.' Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CSXQHYZH
• ISBN13: 9798872212010
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 336 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"