Possessed
A Lost Novel of the Occult
John Travers has been hanged for the murder of his mother-in-law Helga, but to those who knew him something is amiss. Driven by justice and a sense of uncanny forces at work, John’s friend Doctor Toogood recounts a haunting tale of love and jealousy under the fell influence of a shadowy and implacable evil.
First published in 1927, this novel by husband-and-wife writing duo Rosalie and Edward Synton (real surname Corse-Scott) has been lost for nearly a century and returns now from the Library collections to deliver its occult thrills anew.
Rosalie and Edward Synton was the joint pseudonym used by the married couple Rosalie (1889-1939) and Edward (1883-1943) Corse-Scott, two writers who emigrated to New Zealand from their home ‘Little Synton’, near Verwood in Dorset. Rosalie was born in Ireland; Edward to a British family in India. Edward published poetry collections under his own name and books and music under the ‘Synton’ pen name – Possessed appears to be their only foray into the world of weird fiction, though research continues.
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