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 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. Owen is best known for his oriental fantasy short stories, many of which appeared in the magazine Weird Tales

Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....

. Owen also co-wrote several children's collections with his wife, Ethel Owen.

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
  The Porcelain Magician
  The Porcelain Magician is a collection of oriental fantasy short stories written by Frank Owen. It was first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1948. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Weird Tales, Mystery Magazine and The Dance Magazine-Contents:* Foreword, by David A...
  
  (1948)

Anthologies

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

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