Oliver Onions was a master of the supernatural tale. His ghost stories were elegantly written and well plotted, and his characters were fully fleshed. He is
known for psychological insight into his characters, and a common theme is a character's realization that ghosts are not confined to traditional haunted
old places but exist in the contemporary world. His theory of ghosts, at least in his fiction, was that they are all around us but are usually not visible.
Only when there is a slight shift in the equilibrium between the supernatural and the natural worlds are ghosts sometimes sighted. Though Onions wrote
convincingly about the supernatural, he did not believe in ghosts.
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