The Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-38 (Handheld Weirds #5)
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$17.99
Publication Date: May 10th, 2022
Publisher:
Handheld Classics
ISBN:
9781912766604
Pages:
222
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Description
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.--Publisher.
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