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University of Delaware: OLIVER ONIONS PAPERS (798 words) |
 | Onions legally changed his name to George Oliver in 1918, but continued to publish ghost stories, mysteries, and historical fiction, as Oliver Onions. |
| In 1909, Onions married the writer Berta Ruck (1878-1978). |
| The Oliver Onions Papers comprises.3 linear feet of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, travel journals and ephemera related to the British novelist and short story writer Oliver Onions (1872-1961). |
| Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions, published by Tartarus Press (437 words) |
| Oliver Onions has long been acknowledged by aficionados of supernatural writing as an elegant and accomplished practitioner; the eerie and beautifully-crafted The Beckoning Fair One is perhaps the best known and certainly the most anthologised of his stories. |
| One of Onions great strengths, but perhaps also one of the reasons why the majority of his ghost stories have been overlooked, is that they are not easy to categorise; their settings vary greatly, they have a broad frame of reference and the traditionally supernatural content is sometimes minimal. |
| Tartarus Press offers in its second printing of Oliver Onion's Ghost Stories a generous collection of superbly written tales of supernatural invasion, psychological unease, and transitory shifts between the everyday and supernatural - reality and the surreal both concepts presented by the author as paradoxical effects of the same cause. |
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