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Oliver Onions


Born
in Bradford, The United Kingdom
November 13, 1873

Died
April 09, 1961

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Genre
Horror


George Oliver Onions (1873–1961), who published under the name Oliver Onions, was an English writer of short stories and novels.

Oliver Onions was born in Bradford in 1873. Although he legally changed his name to George Oliver in 1918, he always published under the name Oliver Onions. Onions originally worked as a commercial artist before turning to writing, and the dust jackets of his earliest works included illustrations painted by Onions himself.

Onions was a prolific writer of short stories and novels and is best remembered today for his ghost stories, the most famous of which is probably ‘The Beckoning Fair One’, originally published in Widdershins (1911). Despite being known today chiefly for his supernatural short fiction, Onions also ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 7,061 ratings · 893 reviews · 156 distinct works • Similar authors
The Beckoning Fair One
3.79 avg rating — 696 ratings — published 1911 — 3 editions
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Widdershins
3.63 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 1911 — 87 editions
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The Dead of Night: The Ghos...
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The Collected Ghost Stories...
4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1935 — 5 editions
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The Cigarette Case
3.42 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions
4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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The Hand of Kornelius Voyt
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3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1939 — 5 editions
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The story of Ragged Robyn (...
3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1912 — 6 editions
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In Accordance with Evidence
3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1912
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The Tower of Oblivion
3.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1921 — 53 editions
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“Let me go--I'm not wanted--let me take away what's left of me--”
― Oliver Onions, The Beckoning Fair One
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“...there was no second attempt. Fate has no Morrow.”
― Oliver Onions, The Beckoning Fair One
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