Marty Ross, Storyteller
My blogs
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| Introduction | Marty Ross is author of many BBC radio dramas: A Hundred Miles, A Breath From Other Planets, My Blue Piano, Rough Magick, Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk, Darker Side Of The Border, Catch My Breath, Ghost Zone, The Dead Of Fenwick Moor & Moyamensing. He wrote Doctor Who audio dramas Night's Black Agents; The Lurkers At Sunlight's Edge, and Dark Shadows: Dress Me In Dark Dreams, nominated for a Scribes award. For the Wireless Theatre Company, he has written Medusa On The Beach, Blood And Stone, nominated for a 2012 Rondo Award, Redder Than Roses, The Woman On The Bridge, Crooker's Kingdom & Night of the Orchid. With Wireless, he wrote Romeo & Jude for Amazon Audible, followed by Treasure Island (nominated for 2018 Audie), The Arabian Nights volumes 1 & 2 and The Darkwater Bride. He also performs as a live storyteller throughout Scotland & England at festivals and theatre venues large and small. Novel Aztec Love Song is published by Weathervane Press. Glasgow, Like A Stranger & Dances Sacred And Profane are available for Amazon Kindle. His agent is Richard Ireson at the Narrow Road Company. richardireson@narrowroad.co.uk |
| Favorite movies | Images (Robert Altman), Mirror & Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky), The Silence, Hour Of The Wolf, Persona (Ingmar Bergman), the short films of Jan Svankmajer, Immoral Tales, La Bete (Walerian Borowczyk), The Innocents (Jack Clayton), Cat People (Jacques Tourneur), The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson), Double Indemnity & The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder), Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol), The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker), Hands Of The Ripper (Peter Sasdy), Doctor Jekyll & Sister Hyde (Roy Ward Baker), Brides Of Dracula, Phantom Of The Opera, Curse Of the Werewolf, The Gorgon (Terence Fisher), Mad Love (Karl Freund), The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick), The Devils, The Music Lovers, Gothic, Altered States (Ken Russell), The Black Cat (Edgar Ulmer), Nosferatu, Wozzeck, Aguirre Wrath of God (Werner Herzog), Sisters, Obsession, Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill (Brian DePalma), Repulsion, Macbeth, Chinatown, The Tenant (Roman Polanski), The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke), Jaws (Steven Spielberg), Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren), Last Tango In Paris, The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci), Eraserhead & Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch), The Lodger & Hangover Square (John Brahm), Doctor Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming, 1941), Dracula (John Badham, 1979), Institute Benjamenta & Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes (Quay Brothers), Love and Death (Woody Allen), Orphee & La Belle et La Bete (Jean Cocteau), German Silent Cinema as a whole. |
| Favorite music | Bartok, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Mahler, Debussy, Toru Takemitsu, Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Alfred Schnittke, Lutoslawski, Humphrey Searle, Sofia Gubaidulina, Kaija Saariaho, Peter Maxwell Davies |
| Favorite books | Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), short stories of Hawthorne and Poe and Sheridan LeFanu, all Dostoyevsky, all Kafka, all WB Yeats, poetry of Sylvia Plath, Gaudette & Crow by Ted Hughes, Un Semaine de Bonte (Max Ernst), poems & prose of Georg Trakl, Jacobean & Greek tragedy, Arguments For A Theatre by Howard Barker, anything by Robert Aickman, Algernon Blackwood, Joyce Carol Oates, The Haunted Screen by Lotte Eisner |