Reggie Oliver

I've just finished Reggie Oliver's three collections in 'one sitting' as it were:

The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and Other Strange Stories (Haunted River 2003)
The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler (Haunted River 2005)
Masques of Satan: Twelve Tales and a Novella (Ash Tree Press 2007)

This was a significant experience in my reading life. Combining the odd dark pleasures to be found in Robert Aickman, Walter de la Mare, M.R. James, Elizabeth Bowen, Oliver Onions but some elemental beyond these called Reggie Oliver ... with an idiosyncratic love of the British seaside, theatrical productions, conscious paintings, crabby scholars, teachers like those from the English grammar school I went to in the fifties and sixties, strange lusts and desires ... and essentially compulsive story telling, with evil swirling about fleshily or spiritually or both...
And much else.

A major modern Horror writer. Virgin territory for most, I guess.