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.