A doomed relationship in a seaside town that persists after death. . . . A convent in which there is always the unacknowledged presence of an extra nun. . . . A balding actor who acquires a mysterious wig after his rival goes missing. . . . A brilliant inventor who becomes trapped inside his own sinister computer game. . . . A sixteenth-century cardinal who is tormented by dreams of the sect he has persecuted.Variety and originality of setting, strength of characterisation, stylistic elegance and narrative power are qualities for which Reggie Oliver has become well-known in his five volumes of ‘strange stories’. All are present in this groundbreaking debut volume, first published in 2003. It was a nominee for best collection of 2003 in the International Horror Guild Awards.‘Oliver’s ability to create a sense of time and place in every one of these stories is exemplary. . . . As a work of spiritual terror it has few peers. . . .’ Jim Rockhill, All Hallows October 2003.‘Oliver’s sharp eye for character and ear for dialogue never desert him. . . . He rediscovers many if not all the elements that make the English Ghost Story Classic.’ Ramsey Campbell, Dark Horizons, 2003.‘A masterpiece of nebulous unease. . . . This impressive volume . . . richly deserves a place on your shelves.’ David Longhorn, Supernatural Tales, No. 6, Autumn 2003.

He was feared from the Mexican border to the Black Hills of Dakota. Now, in a place called Hatchett's Folly, his search for two men, Peterson and Webb, was finally reaching its climax.Or was it?A promise made to a dying man had sent Jim Green on a seemingly hopeless quest for vengeance. And that same promise had turned him into the deadliest gunfighter of them all – the man they called Sudden.Now, at last, the day of reckoning had come. The hunter had found his prey. And now he was ready to make the kill ...

When he rode into Sandy Bend, there was a range war in the making. So he signed on with the Circle Dot outfit and started to poke around where others had been afraid to go. He called himself James Green, but wherever men talked low over a game of monte or a bottle of whiskey, he was referred to as Sudden!

When Jim Green took on the job of Marshal in the roaring hell town of Lawless, he soon knew he'd tackled a tough one. But he had no idea just how tough a job it was until he discovered there was a man pirating around the town on a black stallion and calling himself 'Sudden.' Jim Green wanted to meet this Sudden personally over six-guns. Because Jim Green happened to be the real Sudden...

When an accentric shopkeeper tries on a pair of dazzling shoes he discovers in a London park, he little realises they're the most powerful matter-manipulating computers on Earth .. in disguise. Enticing him, they attempt to use his feet to reunite with the scientific genius who developed them. Norman's subsequent shenanigans sweep him, his highly-strung sister, young chubby nephew and baffled Scotland Yard detective into rollicking cyber-adventure. Meanwhile, beneath New York and London, Ichabod - a criminal organisation and its outlandish henchmen - will stop at nothing to secure the shoes.

Sex and Crime follows the incredible life of Oliver, a teenage hacker in Aachen, Germany, who is the victim of traumatic childhood abuse and suffers from PTSD. He falls in love with an American girl online and moves to New York. After a painful divorce he meets a heroin addict and moves to Florida, where he gets sucked deeper and deeper into the dark world of drug addiction and prostitution.

A bandit town in the Arizona badlands, and the scum of the border who lived there feared nothing. Governor Bleke wanted-the place stomped out. It took a particular kind of man to go in there alone; a man as mercilessly fast with his guns as any lone rider on the owlhoot trail. Bleke knew of only one man who could do the job: Sudden!

From outlaw to lawman ...When Jim Green took on the job of Marshal in the aptly named town of Lawless, he had no idea just how tough a job it was until he discovered there was a man pirating around the town on a black stallion and calling himself ‘Sudden.’ Jim Green wanted to meet this Sudden personally over six-guns. Because Jim Green happened to be the real Sudden....

Oliver Strange's life in London is all very normal until his father disappears in the wilds of the Okavango Swamps while collecting frog data. When Oliver goes in search of his dad, he is captured and things go from bad to worse. He soon discovers his knowledge of reading maps and his Swiss Army knife are not enough when faced with crocodiles, hippos, lions and dynamite-brandishing crooks with a sinister goal – to collect venom from the most poisonous frog of all – the golden poison dart frog, found only in Colombia. Oliver is faced with not only saving his father – but perhaps the whole world. This school edition of Oliver Strange and the Journey to the Swamps is included in the Department of Basic Education's National Catalogue for Senior Phase learners. It has been revised and updated with activities for pre-reading and post-reading, questions according to cognitive levels, glossaries and notes on the genre of the novel. Memoranda available online at...

James Green, alias Sudden, was now a respectable rancher. The gunfighter had hung up his guns. But then an old friend needed help, so the respectable rancher reached for those two well-kept guns, slowly strapped them on, and reached for his hat. Now the die was cast—and Sudden was back again!

He had killed his best friend, and now the howling mob aimed to string him up. It was an accident, of course, but that didn’t make it any better. Somehow, he had to escape the noose, and just hope that one day he could live with himself again. But how far can run from one’s past and the hangman?

His was a name to be feared from the Mexican border to the Black Hills of Dakota. Now at Hatchett’s folly his search for two men, Peterson and Webb, was at an end...or was it? 

A doomed relationship in a seaside town that persists after death. . . . A convent in which there is always the unacknowledged presence of an extra nun. . . . A balding actor who acquires a mysterious wig after his rival goes missing. . . . A brilliant inventor who becomes trapped inside his own sinister computer game. . . . A sixteenth-century cardinal who is tormented by dreams of the sect he has persecuted.Variety and originality of setting, strength of characterisation, stylistic elegance and narrative power are qualities for which Reggie Oliver has become well-known in his five volumes of ‘strange stories’. All are present in this groundbreaking debut volume, first published in 2003. It was a nominee for best collection of 2003 in the International Horror Guild Awards.‘Oliver’s ability to create a sense of time and place in every one of these stories is exemplary. . . . As a work of spiritual terror it has few peers. . . .’ Jim Rockhill, All Hallows October 2003.‘Oliver’s sharp eye for character and ear for dialogue never desert him. . . . He rediscovers many if not all the elements that make the English Ghost Story Classic.’ Ramsey Campbell, Dark Horizons, 2003.‘A masterpiece of nebulous unease. . . . This impressive volume . . . richly deserves a place on your shelves.’ David Longhorn, Supernatural Tales, No. 6, Autumn 2003.

The making of the legendary outlaw ... from Texas to Kansas, his deadly guns sought a legacy of vengeance.

The second book in the chronology has James Green finding a mission in life..and confronting men whose mission in life is to exterminate him. Sudden.