The Return by Walter de La Mare is about the possession of a young man who comes into close contact with an 18th-century pirate. De La Mare's tale is full of unrequited love and domestic violence. Excerpt: "The churchyard in which Arthur Lawford found himself wandering that mild and golden September afternoon was old, green, and refreshingly still. The silence in which it lay seemed as keen and mellow as the light—the pale, almost heatless, sunlight that filled the air. Here and there, robins sang across the stones, elvishly shrill in the quiet of harvest."