More Hungry Houses: Oliver Onions' "The Beckoning Fair One"
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover Oliver Onions’ “The Beckoning Fair One,” first published in 1911 in his Widdershins collection. Spoilers ahead. “I don’t say I don’t love my work—when it’s done; but I hate doing it. Sometimes it’s an intolerable burden that I simply long to be rid of.” At forty-four, writer Paul Oleron has grown tired of roughing it in garrets. Crossing a rundown square, he notices precar...
Source: tor.com