Masques of Satan

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.

Masques of Satan contains

• Introductory
• The Man in the Grey Bedroom
• Grab a Granny Night
• The Children of Monte Rosa
• Mr Poo-Poo
• The Silver Cord
• The Road from Damascus
• Mmm-Delicious
• Puss-Cat
• The Old Silence
• Music by Moonlight
• Blind Man’s Box
• Shades of the Prison House, a novella
• The End of History

Softcover - the first 250 copies were signed by Mr. Oliver and our copies are signed!