The Outcast and The Rite

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 Outcast and The Rite features in the following genres: Classic horror and ghost stories

The Outcast and The Rite is available in Paperback

The Outcast and The Rite was written by Helen Simpson and published by Handheld Classics an imprint of Handheld Press

Yes it is part of Handheld Weirds series