When I Was Dead and Other Stories

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Robert Aickman wrote of Vincent O'Sullivan that: [his short story] "When I Was Dead" is a very rictus or spasm of guilt, sudden and shattering. Vincent O'Sullivan was a master of this dyeing and soaking in guilt. The curious should try to find a copy of his novel, The Good Girl. The quest is difficult, but the product distinctive. O'Sullivan, having lived a longish life as a more or less well-to-do rentier, in latish middle age found himself ruined, wrote his last book (Opinions) under terrible conditions, and, dying in Paris, ended anonymously in the common pit for the cadavers of paupers. Table of Contents When I Was Dead The Bargain of Rupert Orange The Business of Madame Jahn The Interval