Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions,...
Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions With an Introduction by Rosalie Parker Containing: Credo, The Beckoning Fair One,...
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(12/28/07) Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions With an Introduction by Rosalie Parker Containing: Credo, The Beckoning Fair One, Phantas, Rooum, Benlian, The Ascending Dream, The Honey in the Wall, The Rosewood Door, The Accident, IO (The Lost Thrysus), The Painted Face, The Out-Sister, John Gladwyn Says . . ., Hic Jacet, The Rocker, Dear Dryad, The Real People, The Cigarette Case, The Rope in the Rafters, Resurrection in Bronze, The Woman in the Way, The Smile of Karen, Tragic Casements. Oliver Onions has long been acknowledged by aficionados of supernatural writing as an elegant and accomplished practitioner; the eerie and beautifully-crafted The Beckoning Fair One is perhaps the best known and certainly the most anthologised of his stories. But Onions wider work has, until now, generally eluded republication. One of Onions great strengths, but perhaps also one of the reasons why the majority of his ghost stories have been overlooked, is that they are not easy to categorise; their settings...See less