The Dead of Night

Bought for £1 at the local hospital’s League of Friends bookshop. Onions is one of the great twentieth-century ghost story writers. This volume does include The Beckoning Fair One which Robert Aickmam described as “one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field”. There’s an intense, manic quality to Onions’ writing that is incredibly effective.

I’ve read about half the stories in this collection before and will undoubtedly take a look at the ones unfamiliar to me. (Regretfully, my reading has drifted away from ghost stories recently!)