A Voyage to Arcturus + The Haunted Woman Metaphysical Science Fantasy, Occult Mystery, and Visionary Quests Beyond Reality

A Voyage to Arcturus and The Haunted Woman bring together David Lindsay's most distinctive explorations of metaphysical fiction. The former, first published in 1920, transforms the planetary romance into a radical spiritual allegory, sending Maskull to the alien world of Tormance, where shifting bodies, senses, and moral systems dramatize a quest beyond ordinary reality. The latter relocates visionary experience to a haunted English house, blending psychological mystery with supernatural symbolism. Lindsay's prose is austere, strange, and philosophically charged, standing apart from Edwardian romance while anticipating modern speculative and existential literature. David Lindsay (1876-1945) was a Scottish writer whose life was marked by commercial frustration, war service, and a persistent concern with ultimate questions. Having worked in business before serving in the First World War, he turned to fiction with an intensity that suggests dissatisfaction with conventional realism and inherited religious forms. His novels repeatedly seek a language for transcendence, suffering, desire, and the instability of identity. This volume is recommended to readers interested in visionary fantasy, philosophical fiction, and the stranger margins of modernism. Difficult, haunting, and unforgettable, Lindsay's work rewards those willing to enter fiction as an ordeal of perception and belief.