Centipede Press Offers Reggie Oliver Omnibus

Centipede Press is serving up a 900 page omnibus of Reggie Oliver's strange stories this spring. The mega-tome collects original artwork and dozens of stories from his first three books: The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini, The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler, and Masques of Satan. This collection should be greeted with cheers from sectors of weird fiction lovers longing to sample Oliver's work for the first time, and those merely hungry for more. His works telling of haunted theaters and neo-gothic horrors have spurred increasing admiration in the weird community, but also some frustration, purely due to the extreme rarity of his first two collections. The new Centipede collection, Dramas from the Depths, should do much to assuage this trouble and put Oliver's older stories onto an accessible footing for readers.

It will also be interesting to see how, if at all, the new book impacts the online selling of Oliver's rare books issued by Haunted River Press. Cardinal Vittorini and Hitler Symphonies have gone for bank account sapping sums up to about a thousand dollars in the past year. This is seemingly the product of high demand among a mixed crowd of weird fiction enthusiasts and booksellers looking for a sizable profit.

In any case, the $125.00 price of Dramas from the Depths is a trifle compared to a potential tenfold pricetag needed to own the three books individually.

ADDENDUM: If Dramas from the Depths is a bit too expensive for your blood, then check out his very affordable novel, The Dracula Papers: The Scholar's Tale.

-Grim Blogger