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Jonathan Oliver is the British Fantasy Award winning editor of Magic, House of Fear, End of the Line, End of the Road, World War Cthulhu, Five Stories High and Dangerous Games. He is the author of the collection The Language of Beasts, out now from Black Shuck Books.

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	Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Daniel Philpott (Narrator), Jonathan Oliver (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.91 avg rating — 1,908,383 ratings — published 1818 — 13798 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, Ronald Pickup (Narrator), Seán Barrett (Narrator) 3.91 avg rating — 99,120 ratings — published 1868 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House of Fear by Jonathan Oliver (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Christopher Priest (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the Line by Jonathan Oliver (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Al Ewing (Contributor), Conrad Williams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane by Jonathan Oliver (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dan Abnett (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Storm Constantine (Contributor) 3.43 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	End of the Road by Jonathan Oliver (Goodreads Author), Philip Reeve (Goodreads Author), Lavie Tidhar 3.41 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dangerous Games by Jonathan Oliver (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Pat Cadigan (Goodreads Author), Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) 3.23 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of Kerberos (Twilight of Kerberos, #5) 3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Language of Beasts 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wrath of Kerberos (Twilight of Kerberos, #9) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jonathan Oliver is currently reading Rawblood by Catriona Ward (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jonathan Oliver rated a book really liked it Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A fascinating collection of Woolrich’s noir. The stories get better as the author’s handle on his prose becomes firmer and the last story - New York Blues - is stunning.
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Jonathan Oliver rated a book really liked it Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A fascinating collection of Woolrich’s noir. The stories get better as the author’s handle on his prose becomes firmer and the last story - New York Blues - is stunning.
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Jonathan Oliver rated a book really liked it The Gameshouse (The Gameshouse #1-3) by Claire North	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Immensely enjoyable and beautifully written.
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Jonathan Oliver rated a book it was amazing 1983 by Tom Cox	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I inhaled this gloriously weird, funny, and moving book. Set in many of the same places where I grew up, it absolutely nails what it’s like to be a child in the 80s. Nostalgic but not in a rose-tinted way. A celebration of being a little bit weird.
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Jonathan Oliver rated a book it was amazing The Voyage Home by Pat Barker	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A brilliant end to a brilliant trilogy. Barker is just a wonderful writer.
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Jonathan Oliver rated a book it was amazing Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An excellent anthology. A great diverse collection of challenging, powerful, and entertaining stories.
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Jonathan Oliver rated a book really liked it Verona in Autumn by Tom Lloyd (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A fitting tribute to the great play and a wonderfully realised version of Shakespeare’s Verona. Captures the feel of Shakespeare’s dialogue without being too slavish to it. Packed full of high drama and political intrigue. Recommended.
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A fitting tribute to the great play and a wonderfully realised version of Shakespeare’s Verona. Captures the feel of Shakespeare’s dialogue without being too slavish to it. Packed full of high drama and political intrigue. Recommended.
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