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Frank Owen (1893–1968) was an American author, novelist and anthologist. He wrote 10 novels in the 1930s under the pseudonymRoswell 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 magazineWeird Tales.^[2] Owen also co-wrote several children's collections with his wife, Ethel Owen.^[1]

• 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)
• The Professional Virgin (as Roswell Williams, 1931)
• 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)
• Dark Destiny (as Roswell Williams, 1936)
• A Husband for Kutani (collection, 1938)
• The Scarlet Hill (1941)
• The Porcelain Magician (1948)

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

• 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.

• Media related toFrank Owen at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by or aboutFrank Owen atWikisource
• Frank Owen atLibrary of Congress, with 34 library catalog records (mainly as 'Owen, Frank, 1893–' without '1968', previous page of browse report)
• Frank Owen at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• Roswell Williams (pseudonym) atWorldCat

• 20th-century American novelists
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• 1968 deaths
• 20th-century American male writers

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