The Outcast and The Rite

Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938

The Outcast and The Rite
Helen Simpson
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9 May 2022 UK
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9781912766604
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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.
The novelist and playwright Helen de Guerry Simpson was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1897, and studied at Oxford. Her novel Boomerang won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1932. She died from cancer in 1940.
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ISBN-13: 9781912766604
Published: 9 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Handheld Press
Publisher: Handheld Press
Format: Paperback
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