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Title: Outcast & The Rite, The: Stories of Landscape & Fear, 1925-1938
Author: SIMPSON HELEN DE GUERRY
Illustrator: EDMUNDSON MELISSA (ED)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2022
Imprint: HANDHELD PRESS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
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
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm