| #17082205 in Books | Aegypan | 2006-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.46 x5.98l,.66 | File Name: 1598188305 | 200 pages |
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Slow, Careful, and Creepy Mood Pieces|By Professor Picklepants|NO SPOILERS "The Beckoning Fair One" is the longest (a novella) and best known piece in this collection of short stories. Writer Paul Oleron moves into several rooms of an otherwise long empty, neglected and run down home. He soon finds himself obsessed by what he believes to be a ghost. The question for the reade|About the Author|George Oliver Onions[1] (13 November 1873 - 9 April 1961) was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels.[2] He wrote in a variety of genres, but is perhaps beset remembered for his ghost stories, notably the highly-regard collect
At first blush, it's a conventional haunted house story involving an unsuccessful writer, who moves into an empty house in hope that isolation will help his failing creativity. His sensitivity and imagination are enhanced by his seclusion, but his art, his only friend, and his sanity are all destroyed in the process. . . .
