Holidays from Hell edition by Reggie Oliver Robert Shearman Literature Fiction eBooks
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In this, Reggie Oliver’s seventh collection of stories the Devil and the Seven Deadly Sins go on holiday to an English seaside resort. And there are other visits to the seaside, which equally deserve Oliver’s suggestively ambiguous title of a ‘Holiday from Hell’, notably by a recently bereaved solicitor troubled by thoughts of mortality, and immortality in ‘The Rooms are High’. In ‘The Perfect Author’ a highly successful author at a seaside crime writing convention seems to be haunted by one of her less appealing creations.
And, with his gift for varied and unusual settings, Oliver takes us elsewhere to late seventeenth-century Oxford in ‘Absalom’, to Paris in 1867 (‘The Green Hour’), to a remote and terribly strange hotel in Wales called ‘The Druid’s Rest’, to the London of the swinging sixties in ‘The Prince of Darkness’, and, in ‘Rapture’, to what could perhaps be the end of the world.
Holidays from Hell edition by Reggie Oliver Robert Shearman Literature Fiction eBooks
I loathe to give anything but a highest rating to a Reggie Oliver collection: man is one of the finest, most prolific and yet tragically underappreciated living authors of weird fiction. Unfortunately, this is -by far- the least enjoyable of his collections and is something of a major disappointment for me. So, this is far closer to three stars, but I have no heart to rate it so.There are some gems here: I enjoyed his swan song to Poe's great detective Dupin, "The Green Hour", as well as the excellent Jamesian ghostly tale, "Absalom". There are also some pieces of quality authentic Oliveriana here, such as "Rapture", "Silken Drum" and "Day with the Delusionists", and "The Book and the Ring" just raised my interest in his upcoming novel from which it was originally extracted.
Sadly, bulk of this collection is forgettable, with some actual stinkers thrown in for good measure. If someone lacks previous familiarity with Oliver or seeks to read more of his work after encountering him in some anthology or another, then pretty much any of his previous collection would be a far better pick than this one is. "Mrs. Midnight", in particular, is one of the finest modern weird fiction collections.
This one is for die hards only.
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Holidays from Hell edition by Reggie Oliver Robert Shearman Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Among the masters of the modern ghost story.
Met my expectations
Reggie Oliver is wry, understated, and extremely British. More than hints of Aickman and M.R. James color his work, but Oliver is original. This collection can move a bit slow and often the horror is in the blurs of one's vision, but "Holidays from Hell" delivers a thematically and very subtle collection of stories that rewards multiple re-readings and savoring the collection. "Holiday from Hell" and "The Silken Drum" start the collection off and hit the thematic notes of intrusion, half-understood life interpretation, and the way horror can stroll in and out of one's life indirectly. "The Green Hour" picks with where Poe's C. Auguste Dupin left off, but Oliver does not dip into Poe's voice or pastiche. However, the collection begins to feel similar in the middle with stories like "The Prince of Darkness" and "The Rooms Are High" but these reward re-reading. Come back to these stories after you have palate-cleansed. The end of the collection is has a few stories that really stand out, particularly “Rapture" which builds on Christian culture. Many of the narrators have Oliver's love of theatre and there are many self-referential narrators who gentle mock Reggie Oliver's proclivity. Oliver needs to be more widely-read.
I loathe to give anything but a highest rating to a Reggie Oliver collection man is one of the finest, most prolific and yet tragically underappreciated living authors of weird fiction. Unfortunately, this is -by far- the least enjoyable of his collections and is something of a major disappointment for me. So, this is far closer to three stars, but I have no heart to rate it so.
There are some gems here I enjoyed his swan song to Poe's great detective Dupin, "The Green Hour", as well as the excellent Jamesian ghostly tale, "Absalom". There are also some pieces of quality authentic Oliveriana here, such as "Rapture", "Silken Drum" and "Day with the Delusionists", and "The Book and the Ring" just raised my interest in his upcoming novel from which it was originally extracted.
Sadly, bulk of this collection is forgettable, with some actual stinkers thrown in for good measure. If someone lacks previous familiarity with Oliver or seeks to read more of his work after encountering him in some anthology or another, then pretty much any of his previous collection would be a far better pick than this one is. "Mrs. Midnight", in particular, is one of the finest modern weird fiction collections.
This one is for die hards only.
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