This week the Reggie Oliver Project looks at Fascism writ small, in The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler
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This week, The Reggie Oliver Project discusses institutional abuse, Magdalene Laundries and crises of faith as we read ‘The Seventeenth Sister’ sanjaymathew.substack.com/p/the-sevent... #ReggieOliver #WeirdFiction #TheEnglishWeird #Catholicism #MagdaleneLaundries #whistleblowing
This week, the Reggie Oliver Project discusses despair, prayer and compassion as we read ‘Death Mask’
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This week the Reggie Oliver Project discusses fatherhood, aspiration and obsession in The Golden Basilica
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This week, the Reggie Oliver Project reads ‘The Boy in Green Velvet’ and discusses Oliver’s recurring theme of the tension between aesthetics and practicality in knowledge work and the arts. Also, sinister uncles substack.com/@sanjaymathe... #Weird #Horror #ReggieOliver #Arts #Magic #Family
This week the Reggie Oliver Project reads ‘The Black Cathedral’ and we figure out why it’s important to touch grass.
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Statue of The Great God Pan at Columbia University. Photo by Another Believer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Another_Believer
This week the Reggie Oliver Project reads ‘Garden Gods’. We discuss class, conformity, amateurism and the danger of dabbling in the dark art of gardening
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#ghoststories #weirdfiction #TheWeird #ReggieOliver #Class #Paganism #Exploitation #horticulture
A painting of a tiger in a winter landscape
This week the Reggie Oliver Project reads ‘Tiger in Snow’ and consider Art, exploitation, and how #solidarity and #intersectionality may not always be as prevalent as we would wish.
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This week the Reggie Oliver Project, reads 'Miss Marchant's Cause' and find out why getting emotionally involved with your research isn't a great idea open.substack.com/pub/sanjayma...
#WeirdFiction #Weird #GhostStories #ReggieOliver #EnglishWeird #Relationships #Spiritualism #Dante
A painting of a CCTV camera on a gritty concrete wall
This week in the Reggie Oliver Project, we read 'Evil Eye'
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I discuss found footage & voyeurism in horror as well as the intersection of Oliver’s work with Clive Barker. #Weird #WeirdFiction #ReggieOliver #TheReggieOliverProject #englishghoststories #englishweird #horror
A 17th C painting by Nicolas Poussin depicting shepherds in an Arcadian landscape examining a tomb
This week in the Reggie Oliver Project I read 'In Arcadia': substack.com/home/post/p-...
We consider hubris, arete, and ask whether you would choose a life in the arts, or eternity in Tartarus.
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A 19th Century picture titled 'Original Sin' depicting Adam, Eve and a demon-faced Serpent.
The Reggie Oliver Project 2: Feng Shui
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We ask ourselves if there's a suburban equivalent to Folk Horror. Also a #cat faces his comeuppance. #Weird #WeirdLit #Horror #GhostStories #Reviews #LitCrit #ReggieOliver
In the first of what I hope will be a series of reviews of all of Reggie Oliver's stories, I read 'Beside the Shrill Sea'
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I read the Weird: Reggie Oliver
Perhaps the best British ghost story writer since James or Aickman.
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