Frank Owen (author)

Infobox Writer
name = Frank Owen


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pseudonym = Roswell Williams
birthdate = 1893
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occupation = author, novelist, anthologist
nationality = United States
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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 namecite book | last=Clute | first=John | authorlink=John Clute | coauthors = John Grant | title=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | location=New York | publisher=St. Martin's Press| pages=739 | date=1997 | id=ISBN 0-88184-708-9] . Owen is best known for his oriental fantasy short stories, many of which appeared in the magazine "Weird Tales"cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon| authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | coauthors = Fred Cook | title=The Collectors Index to Weird Tales | location=Bowling Green, OH | publisher=Bowling Green State University Popular Press| pages=109 | date=1985 | id=ISBN 0-87972-284-3] . Owen also co-wrote several children's collections with his wife, Ethel Owen.

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)
* "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

*cite book | last=Bleiler | first=Everett | authorlink=Everett F. Bleiler | title=The Checklist of Fantastic Literature | location=Chicago | publisher=Shasta Publishers | pages=216 | date=1948
*cite book | last=Clute | first=John | authorlink=John Clute | coauthors = John Grant | title=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | location=New York | publisher=St. Martin's Press| pages=739 | date=1997 | id=ISBN 0-88184-708-9
*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=460-461 | date=1978|id=ISBN 0-911682-22-8