![]() This is a case where Lovecraft's rocketing popularity is being used to nudge more obscure weird fiction writers higher. It's not even completely clear if Lovecraft read enough tales by Onions to make a positive or negative judgment. If they had tried, they would have found that Lovecraft had little to say at all about Onions' ghost stories. Lovecraft as one of the best ghost stories in the English language, 'The Beckoning Fair One' is Oliver Onions' most fascinating and eminently readable story." Regrettably, it appears Dover failed to pull up an exact Lovecraft quote. ![]() The promotional summary states, "Acclaimed by such masters of the genre as Algernon Blackwood and H.P. The recent questions about Lovecraft's view on Onions stem from a citation on the back cover of Dover's 2004 Onions reprint, The Beckoning Fair One. Aside from a few passing mentions indicating an intent to read Onions, Lovecraft never had much to say about this weird fiction colleague. Lovecraft thought about Oliver Onions' spectral work. There's been some recent chatter online about what, if anything, H.P. ![]()
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