Publisher's Synopsis
George Oliver Onions (1873 - 1961) was an English novelist who published over forty novels and story collections. Onions wrote detective fiction. Onions wrote two science fiction novels: New Moon (1918) about a utopian Britain, and The Tower of Oblivion (1921), featuring a middle-aged man who recedes back to his youth. Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror. In this book: Widdershins The Compleat Bachelor Gray youth, The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage The Tower of Oblivion Back o' the Moon and other stories
