A Book of Bargains by Vincent O'Sullivan

Vincent O’Sullivan was one of the last of the decadents. Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

'When I Was Dead' (1905), 'Verschoyle's House' (1915) and 'The Burned House' (1916) are ghost stories, while 'Will' is a tale of psychic vampirism. It contains the pact-with the devil story 'The Bargain of Rupert Orange', and The Business of Madame Jahn and 'My Enemy and Myself', which both feature reanimated corpses. O'Sullivan produced his first collection of supernatural fiction, A Book of Bargains, in 1896. He was a friend of Oscar Wilde (to whom in his disgrace he was often generous), Leonard Smithers, Aubrey Beardsley and other fin-de-siècle figures. His works dealt with the morbid and decadent. The entire family was ruined, and Vincent was destitute for the remaining years of his life. He lived comfortably in London, traveling often to France, until in 1909 he lost his income from the family coffee business when his brother Percy made a spectacularly mistimed futures gamble at the New York Coffee Exchange. Born in New York City to Eugene and Christine O'Sullivan, he began his education in the New York public school system and completed it in Britain. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.Vincent O'Sullivan was an American short story writer, poet and critic. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other.

A Book of Bargains by Vincent O'Sullivan