Mrs Midnight and Other Stories

A television fact convey host is helping to revive an East finish track corridor and uncovers the dreadful mystery of Mrs nighttime and her Animal Comedians. . . . A historian travels to Switzerland to ghost the autobiography of an exiled Balkan king and encounters a sinister cult. . . . The grasp of an Oxford university attempts to introduce a doubtful piece of contemporary sculpture into his collage chapel with dire effects. . . . an odd assembly occurs on a taking part in box among an officer on depart from the trenches and his former headmaster. . . .
The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver’s 5th choice of ‘strange’ tales are as different and strange as ever, notwithstanding, as in earlier volumes, the theatre types the milieu of a couple of his stories. however the theatres will not be simply English ones, within the provinces and the West finish: one is at the Black Sea; one other in post-colonial Kenya. issues are both diverse, yet underlying all is a deep feel of the non secular under-currents slightly under the outside of daily lifestyles, and the precariousness of ‘normality’.

Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and author of ghost tales. His paintings has seemed in a couple of anthologies, together with the Year’s top fable and Horror and The huge ebook of top New Horror.

Mrs dead night and different tales comprises: "Mrs Midnight", "Countess Otho", "Meeting with Mike", "The Dancer within the Dark", "Mr Pigsny", "The Brighton Redemption", "You don't have anything to Fear", "The Philosophy of the Damned", "The Mortlake Manuscript", "The Look", "The Giacometti Crucifixion","A Piece of Elsewhere", "Minos or Rhadamanthus".

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