The Return (Illustrated)

"They say death's a going to bed; I doubt it; but anyhow life's a long undressing. We came in puling and naked, and every stitch must come off before we get out again. We must stand on our feet in all our Rabelaisian nakedness, and watch the world fade." Authur Lawford goes to sleep in a graveyard and when he awakens he has been possessed by the spirit of a long-dead 18th-century pirate. . Rejected by his family and friends he is forced to reconstruct his identity. Walter de la Mare's classic novel of psychic possession is insidiously horrific and unrelentingly disturbing.