Marty Ross

Marty Ross is a Scottish writer, best known for his audio dramas for the British Broadcasting Corporation, Big Finish Productions (for their Doctor Who series) and for the Wireless Theatre Company and 3Dhorrorfi. He is also author of the 'Tartan Noir' thriller novel Aztec Love Song. He has also had several plays performed on stage, mostly with an emphasis on Gothic horror and the surreal. He has also dramatized stories by other Scottish writers, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his radio series The Darker Side of the Border. Among his acknowledged influences are the work of Hammer Films^[1] and British science fiction dramatist Nigel Kneale^{[citation needed]}.

Work

Audio Dramas

• 2002: A Hundred Miles (BBC Radio 4) - a play set in modern Russia.
• 2003: The Darker Side of the Border (BBC Radio 4), three plays dramatizing Scottish horror stories: The Captain of the Polestar by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Brownie of the Black Haggs by James Hogg.
• 2004: Ghost Zone(BBC Radio 7) - a five part science fiction serial.
• 2005: A Breath from other Planets (BBC Radio 4) - A biographical drama about expressionist composer Arnold Schoenberg.
• 2007: My Blue Piano (BBC Radio 4) - Dramatising the life of expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schuler.
• 2007: Catch my Breath (BBC Radio 7) - 5 part gothic horror serial based on Celtic mythology.
• 2009: Medusa on the Beach (Wireless Theatre Company) - Black comedy about a woman who finds the head of the gorgon Medusa from Greek mythology on the beach of a British seaside town.
• 2010: Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - Night's Black Agents (Big Finish) Adventure set in 18th. century Scotland, pitting Doctor Who and companion Jamie McCrimmon against figures from Scottish romantic literature.
• 2010: Blood and Stone (3Dhorrorfi) - Horror drama based around the true story of Elizabeth Báthory, the notorious Hungarian 'vampire countess'.
• 2010: Doctor Who: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (Big Finish) - Adventure for Seventh Doctor and companions, reportedly influenced by work of H.P. Lovecraft.^[2]

Novels

2009: Aztec Love Song (Weathervane Press ISBN 9780956210329). Psychological thriller, set in Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire, near Glasgow where Ross grew up.^[3]

References

1. ^ Little Shoppe Of Horrors magazine, Issue 21, Sept. 2008, pp. 6
2. ^ Liner notes of Big Finish audiobook, November 2010.
3. ^ Biography of Ross on Wireless Theatre Company website; http://www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=18

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