A collection of nine marvellous stories of the supernatural. The
Edwardian era was the last great period of the English ghost story, and
Oliver Onions' "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 and mental disintegration just as powerful as Henry
James' "The Turn of the Screw."
"The Beckoning Fair One" is one of the most oft-anthologized horror
tales. This ghost story has been called one of the best in the English
language by such luminaries as Algernon Blackwood and H. P. Lovecraft.
The tale concerns an author who moves into a deserted house and starts
to become influenced by its ghostly female occupant? Or...is it just in
his mind?
Pages: 252
ISBN: 9781304998569
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