While other writers may create moods and images designed to chill, Onions is able to add a richness to the prose giving it a depth and beauty which enhances the development of the plot and cultivates living, breathing characters who are more than just pieces to be moved about the chessboard of a plot. One of the well-regarded commentators of the ghost story genre, Mike Ashley, observed: “Onions’s best stories are powerfully charged explorations of physical violence, their effects heightened by detailed character study and a preparedness to challenge the accepted.” Onions’s fiction is also graced with a powerful poetic elegance often missing in even the best of ghost stories. Remarkably for a writer born in the mid-nineteenth century his style is very modern and his approach is as psychological as it is supernatural. Indeed he is unique in the realms of writers of the supernatural in that his tales are so far-ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. Book.Oliver Onions’s ghost stories are as unusual as his name. Pritchett Cushi by Christopher Woodforde and Bad Company by Walter de la Mare. Coppard The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke Bosworth Summit Pound by L. Burrage The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole Ahoy Sailor Boy by A. Somerset Maugham The Victim by May Sinclair A Visitor from Down Under by L. Swain The True History of Anthony Ffryar by Arthur Gray The Taipan by W. Benson On the Brighton Road by Richard Middleton Bone to His Bone by E. James Rose Rose by Barry Pain The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E.
Wilkins Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M. Marion Crawford The Judge's House by Bram Stoker The Friends of the Friends by Henry James The Red Room by H. Sheridan le Fanu The Shadow in the Corner by M. Nesbit A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Russell Wakefield Fullcircle by John Buchan The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood The Roll Call of the Reef by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch Man Size in Marble by E. White The Bottle of 1912 by Simon Raven Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen Et in Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams Mr Jones by Edith Wharton Old Man's Beard by H. This anthology contains: The Cicerones by Robert Aickman Soft Voices at Passenham by T. The cover features A Lady in a Garden by Moonlight by John Atkinson Grimshaw. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine previous owner's name inside. (xvii) Please note, this is a somewhat heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal.
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