![]() 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. Vincent O'Sullivan was an American short story writer, poet and critic. ![]()
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