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’,...