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 "Publisher"