The Outcast and The Rite Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938 - Handheld Weirds

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.

ISBN:	9781912766604
Publisher:	Handheld Press
Imprint:	Handheld Classics
Published date:	10 May 2022
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xxx, 222
Weight:	320g
Height:	136mm
Width:	216mm
Spine width:	16mm

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