{"product_id":"the-outcast-and-the-rite-stories-of-landscape-and-fear-1925-38-9781912766604","title":"The Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-38","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Handheld Classics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Handheld Classics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ghost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Australian novelist and playwright Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897-1940) published many supernatural short stories.\u003c\/b\u003e This new edition selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection \u003ci\u003eThe Baseless Fabric\u003c\/i\u003e (1925). Featured stories include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e'An Experiment of the Dead', in which a visitor comes to visit a woman in the condemned cell.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e'Good Company', in which a traveller in Italy becomes temporarily possessed of a hitchhiker in her mind.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e'Grey Sand and White Sand' is the horrifying story of a landscape artist who sees and paints a different view.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e'The Outcast', in which a soldier left for dead in the War takes his revenge on his village.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e'The Rite', in which a discontented woman enters a wood, and emerges transformed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e The Introduction is by Melissa Edmundson, the leading scholar of women's Weird fiction and supernatural writing from the early 20th century.--Publisher","brand":"Handheld Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45045925314711,"sku":"9781912766604","price":1154.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781912766604.webp?v=1769217466","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-outcast-and-the-rite-stories-of-landscape-and-fear-1925-38-9781912766604","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}