Oliver Onions was a prolific writer of tales of the supernatural in the first half of the 20th century. Despite what one might think initially, he did write under his given name, though omitted the George. He is recognised as a master of the genre, though he did write quite a lot of other stuff.

The

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The British author George Oliver Onions (1873-1961) prefaced his collection of ghost stories
Widdershins (London: Martin Secker, 1911) with the prayer:
“From Ghaisties, Ghoulies and long-leggity Beasties and Things that go Bump in the night—
“Good Lord, deliver us!”

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Is his real name Oliver Onions, I wondered.
His real name is George Oliver Onions.
Pretty cool, eh?

My favourite story was The Rocker.

Great writing. Less horror and more psychological which is my preference for ghost stories.

The Edwardian era was the last great period of the English ghost story, and Oliver Onion's Widdershins is one of the classic collections of the age. Although each of the nine stories here is worth reading, the collection is famous because of "The Beckoning Fair One," a novella of ghostly obsession a

I originally picked up this hard-to-find book after reading of it in Newman & Jones' excellent overview volume, "Horror: The 100 Best Books." "Widdershins" is a collection of Oliver Onions' short stories, and was first published in 1911. Onions was supposedly a meticulous writer, writing and rewriti

Generally considered a landmark publication of ghost stories, it should be noted that only three tales in this collection seem to aspire to make the reader shudder. These include haunted house novella The Beckoning Fair One – surely one of the great masterpieces of the genre – and the shorter storie