A struggling writer takes rooms in an empty old house in a forgotten London square and begins to feel a presence that is jealous of his work and of the woman who loves him. That story, The Beckoning Fair One, opens a collection of uncanny tales about artists, obsession and the slow loss of the self, including the obsessed artist of Benlian.
Onions’s psychological ghost stories, which have earned the admiration of many later writers of the uncanny. Download the free EPUB.