Widdershins

Widdershins



"Widdershins" is a collection of Oliver Onions' short stories. Onions was a meticulous writer, writing and rewriting and rewriting, changing words repeatedly until he felt that things were just right. And his attention to detail does indeed show. All the stories in this volume are impeccable written, with wonderful attention to detail, sensuous mood, and finely modulated suspense. 


The collection starts off with a bang with "The Beckoning Fair One," 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 is certainly the best in the "Widdershins" collection, and 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?


Demon House Publications USA