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's description.
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