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 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.
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Books by Oliver Onions
Series by Oliver Onions
Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural (28 books)
Speculative Fiction Books
The Dead of Night (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)
2010 | horror, gothic horror, psychological horror, short stories, weird fiction, ghosts
Ghost Stories
2000 | horror, short stories
A Shilling to Spend
1965 | fantasy
The Story of Ragged Robyn
1945 | fantasy, mainstream
The Hand of Kornelius Voyt
1939 | fantasy, paranormal fantasy, horror, gothic horror
The Collected Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions
1935 | horror, short stories
A Certain Man
1931 | fantasy
The Painted Face
1929 | horror, short stories
Ghosts in Daylight
1924 | horror, short stories
The Tower of Oblivion
1921 | fantasy
The New Moon: A Romance of Reconstruction
1918 | science fiction
The Beckoning Fair One
1911 | horror, psychological horror, ghosts
Widdershins
1911 | horror, short stories
Back 'o the Moon
1906 | horror, short stories