A collection of ten short stories of supernatural phenomena, psychic events and the occult. âThese stories are founded on the deepest and highest range of Asiatic thought though the scenes of some are in the West. That thought is as vital for the West as for the East. The background is fictional but the stories are all true. In this connection I draw attention especially to the two entitled respectively âHellâ and âThe Man Who Sawâ â L. Adams Beck (E. Barrington). E. Barrington started writing her novels, which commonly had an oriental setting, at the age of sixty. She was also a distinguished writer of esoteric works such as âThe Story of Oriental Philosophyâ and âThe Splendor of Asiaâ, and on Theosophy.