Oliver Onions

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Amy Roberta (Berta) Ruck, Mrs. Oliver Onions (1878 -1978) was a British writer of several short stories and over 90 romance novels from 1905 to 1972. She also wrote an autobiography and two memoir-style works. As Berta Ruck began to contribute short stories and serials to magazines from 1905. She published her first novel, His Official Fianc e in 1914, which was the subject of two films: His Official Fianc e (1919), silent film directed by Robert G. Vignola and Hans officiella f stm (1944), Swedish movie directed by Nils Jerring.

Amy Roberta (Berta) Ruck, Mrs. Oliver Onions (1878 -1978) was a British writer of several short stories and over 90 romance novels from 1905 to 1972. She also wrote an autobiography and two memoir-style works. As Berta Ruck began to contribute short stories and serials to magazines from 1905. She published her first novel, His Official Fianc e in 1914, 4] which was the subject of two films: His Official Fianc e (1919), silent film directed by Robert G. Vignola and Hans officiella f stm (1944), Swedish movie directed by Nils Jerring.

A collection of nine marvellous stories of the supernatural. 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 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?