Dunbar, Olivia Howard

1873 - 1953

Perhaps now best known for "The Long Chamber" and "The Dream Baby," supernaturalist works with feminist elements, Dunbar was an important influence on and contributor to the tradition of the psychological ghost story in the opening decades of the twentieth century.

Etexts:
"The Long Chamber" [PDF]
A work strongly influenced, I suspect, by Vernon Lee's "Oke of Okehurst," although Lee's tale is more explicitly influenced itself by the Henry James method of ghost-story writing. [Horrormasters; not printable]


Essays and Reviews:
"The Psychological Ghost Stories of Olivia Howard Dunbar"
by Jessica Amanda Salmonson  [Violet Books]
An excellent overview of and introduction to the supernaturalist fiction of Dunbar.

"Olivia Howard Dunbar."