Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) brought his dazzling wit to the fantastic in The Picture of Dorian Gray, whose ageing portrait is one of literature’s most potent supernatural bargains, and in the tender fairy tales ‘The Happy Prince’, ‘The Selfish Giant’ and ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’. The comic ghost story ‘The Canterville Ghost’ rounds out a small but permanent contribution to imaginative fiction.