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Reggie Oliver’s Masques of Satan is an excellent collection of ghostly tales, firmly rooted in the classic supernatural tales, but told with a fresh exciting voice. I really liked how Oliver draws from his extensive theatre background for characters and plots, and indeed has a real talent for writing interesting characters. All the tales in this collection were creepy and exceptional, but my favorite tales was: The Man in the Grey Bedroom, The Children of Monte Rosa, The Silver Cord, The Road fr...
Los doce cuentos brillan con intensidad en toda la gama de colores (oscuros) que hacen grande a Oliver. Lamentablemente la novella, pese a contar con los mismos elementos, no consigue atraparme y hace que el conjunto pierda una estrella. Cosa mía, sin duda. No eres tú, Reggie, cari, soy yo.
Solid traditional horror stories in an original theatre setting. I was amused and captivated.
My second Reggie Oliver outing didn't amaze me quite as much as the first one, Flowers of the Sea. These stories are both more down to earth and more whimsical, and I seem to prefer the more serious tone of his later stories. Still very, very good.
Once agin the moment has arrived, when I, in the humble capacity of a mere reader, get the opportunity to review works, at least some of which are considered as classics, or are likely to be heraleded as classics in due course. This is one such book, and I wish to review it with some care.The stories follow the informative & interesting preface, simply titled as 'Introductory'. This is followed by the stories, and they are:1) "THE MAN IN THE GREY BEDROOM": a traditional story where we know the f...
Overall this is a really great book. It is a bit uneven. Most of the stories are solid and there are a couple that I felt were truly amazing and possibly profound. The weakest points of the book were when Mr. Oliver strayed from the obviously supernatural. The plots were not always wonderful but there were full of great characters or details or imagined histories or other delightful things that transformed what would have been a ho-hum ghost story or horror story into something dark and disturbi...
This was the third collection of Reggie Oliver’s weird/ghost stories that I’ve read through. Overall I found it perhaps to be a little bit weaker than the other two but there’s still lots to enjoy. The opening story ‘The Man in the Grey Bedroom’ is a very traditional but wonderful piece that places a horror from the distant past into a normal excursion to a national trust property in modern Britain. The final story seemed fairly predictable to me and I thought I could see the ending a mile off b...
