First Book of Ghost Stories Widdershins Author:Oliver Onions Onions' lead story, "The Beckoning Fair One," is one of the greatest ghost stories of all time. Algernon Blackwood called it the best ghost story in English. H. P. Lovecraft and other writers and critics of the genre upheld the view. Onions published his first collection of eight ghost stories under the title ... more »Widdershins in 1911. It contains some of his most famous tales: "Phantas," "Rooum," "Benlian," "The Accident," "The Lost Thyrsus," "Hic Jacet," and "The Cigarette Case." All are here, including the complete and much-anthologized "The Beckoning Fair One."« less