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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) 3.90 avg rating — 1,849,707 ratings — published 1818 — 13788 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 — 98,432 ratings — published 1868 — 15 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) 3.44 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) 3.26 avg rating — 39 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 4.29 avg rating — 7 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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Enchanted Pilgrimage

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A beautiful, poetic novel. A sensuous exploration of self, the body, and death, and the lives of women in times of war.
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