The Outcast and The Rite Stories of Landscape and Fear, 19251938

<b>The Australian novelist and playwright Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897-1940) published many supernatural short stories.</b> This new edition selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection <i>The Baseless Fabric</i> (1925). Featured stories include:<ul><li>¿An Experiment of the Dead¿, in which a visitor comes to visit a woman in the condemned cell.</li><li>¿Good Company¿, in which a traveller in Italy becomes temporarily possessed of a hitchhiker in her mind.</li><li>¿Grey Sand and White Sand¿ is the horrifying story of a landscape artist who sees and paints a different view.</li><li>¿The Outcast¿, in which a soldier left for dead in the War takes his revenge on his village.</li><li>¿The Rite¿, in which a discontented woman enters a wood, and emerges transformed.</li></ul>The Introduction is by Melissa Edmundson, the leading scholar of women¿s Weird fiction and supernatural writing from the early 20th century.