The Outcast and the Rite - Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-38
Author(s): Helen de Guerry Simpson
The Australian novelist and playwright Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897-1940) published many supernatural short stories. This new edition selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless Fabric (1925). Featured stories include:
- 'An Experiment of the Dead', in which a visitor comes to visit a woman in the condemned cell.
- 'Good Company', in which a traveller in Italy becomes temporarily possessed of a hitchhiker in her mind.
- 'Grey Sand and White Sand' is the horrifying story of a landscape artist who sees and paints a different view.
- 'The Outcast', in which a soldier left for dead in the War takes his revenge on his village.
- 'The Rite', in which a discontented woman enters a wood, and emerges transformed.
The Introduction is by Melissa Edmundson, the leading scholar of women's Weird fiction and supernatural writing from the early 20th century.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Handheld Press
- : Handheld Classics
- : 01 May 2022
- : .62 Centimeters X 13.5 Centimeters X 21.6 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : FKC
- : xxx, 222
- : 823.912
- : 2205
- : Paperback
- : Helen de Guerry Simpson