Widdershins

Literature & Fiction

Onions, Oliver

Contemporary

Ayer Co. Pub

The Collected Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions.

Dover Pubns

First Book of Ghost Stories: Widdershins [Paperback]

First Book of Ghost Stories: Widdershins

Genre Fiction

"Miles ahead of the average ghost-story" — Sunday Times. A novelist retreats to an abandoned house in the heart of London, where he becomes enthralled by an 18th-century spirit — and where his contact with the outside world gradually diminishes. Acclaimed by such masters as Lovecraft as one of the best ghost stories in the English language.

The Beckoning Fair One

Dover Publications

The debit account (The landmark library, no. 34)

Chatto&Windus

The Story of Louie (The Landmark Library)

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Arras of Youth

Michael Joseph, London

The Beckoning Fair One is sometimes called the greatest ghost story in the English language; it may well be. Certainly it is one of the questest and most beautiful supernatural tales ever written. It reminds the reader of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" -- and that is huge praise indeed. 
 The story tells of British novelist Paul Oleron, who lives restlessly in cramped quarters, looking -- as writers do -- for some way not to work on the project at hand. That is when he sees a vast and beautiful old house for rent. He takes the first floor and moves in. When his friend Elsie Benbough comes to visit, weirdness begins. The house, it seems, does not like Elsie and begins to inflict minor but mean-spirited injuries upon her. Feeling the presence of something evil, she warns Oleron that he will never be able to work there. But Oleron is entranced . . . and then in love . . . and soon obsessed. . . .

Wildside Press

Back O' the Moon and Other Stories

Legare Street Press

Originally published in 1921. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

The Tower of Oblivion [1921]

Cornell University Library

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Onions, Oliver. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Onions, Oliver