UBC (partial): The Beckoning Fair One
Onions, Oliver. "The Beckoning Fair One." The Collected Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions. 1935. New York: Dover Publications, 1971. 3-70.
This is one of those ghost stories that has been so influential that, reading it now, it has almost no punch left. Stephen King in particular--although he's far from the only one--uses the trick of ghosts or haunted spaces influencing the living, persuading them that a terrible idea is (a.) good and (b.) entirely their own. He does it in The Shining and in Christ
This is one of those ghost stories that has been so influential that, reading it now, it has almost no punch left. Stephen King in particular--although he's far from the only one--uses the trick of ghosts or haunted spaces influencing the living, persuading them that a terrible idea is (a.) good and (b.) entirely their own. He does it in The Shining and in Christ
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