Author
Oliver Onions
George Oliver Onions (1873–1961) was a significant English novelist who published over forty novels and story collections. Besides detective fiction, historical fiction and a science fiction novel, New Moon (1918), Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widder…
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George Oliver Onions (1873–1961) was a significant English novelist who published over forty novels and story collections.
Besides detective fiction, historical fiction and a science fiction novel, New Moon (1918), Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror.
Onions was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his 1946 novel Poor Man's Tapestry.
Books by this author
14 books in this view
The Dead of Night 2010 Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural Ghost Stories 2000 A Shilling to Spend 1965 The Story of Ragged Robyn 1945 The Hand of Kornelius Voyt 1939 
The Collected Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions 1935 
A Certain Man 1931 
The Painted Face 1929 
Ghosts in Daylight 1924 
The Tower of Oblivion 1921 
The New Moon: A Romance of Reconstruction 1918 
The Beckoning Fair One 1911 THE AUTHOR’S WORLDS