Frank Owen (author)

Owen's "Singapore Nights" was the cover story on the debut issue of Oriental Stories in 1930

Owen's "Quest of a Noble Tiger" was the cover story in the January 1943 Weird Tales

Frank Owen is a United States author, novelist and anthologist. He wrote 10 novels in the 1930s under the pseudonym Roswell Williams, a name which is sometimes erroneously listed as his real name.^[1] Owen is best known for his oriental fantasy short stories,^[1] many of which appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.^[2] Owen also co-wrote several children's collections with his wife, Ethel Owen.^[1]

Bibliography

Novels and collections

• Coat Tales from the Pockets of the Happy Giant (with Ethel Owen, collection, 1927)
• The Dream Hills of Happy Country (with Ethel Owen, collection, 1928)
• House Mother (1929)
• Pale Pink Porcelain (1929)
• The Wind that Tramps the World (1929)
• The Purple Sea (collection, 1930)
• Windblown Stories (with Ethel Owen, collection, 1930)
• Della Wu, Chinese Courtesan (collection, 1931)
• Rare Earth (1931)
• The Blue Highway (with Ethel Owen, collection, 1932)
• "Vagabond Lady" (as Roswell Williams, 1934)
• Madonna of the Damned (as Roswell Williams, 1935)
• Lovers of La Fab (as Roswell Williams, 1935)
• A Husband for Kutani (collection, 1938)
• The Scarlet Hill (1941)
• The Porcelain Magician (1948)

Anthologies

• Murder for Millions (1946)
• Fireside Mystery Book (1947)
• Teen-age Mystery Stories (1948)

Notes

References

• Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 216. 
• Clute, John; John Grant (1997). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 739. ISBN 0-88184-708-9. 
• Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. pp. 460–461. ISBN 0-911682-22-8. 

External links

• Frank Owen at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Works related to Frank Owen at Wikisource