Summary

Edgar tells them about the film, which is based on a novel named The Outermost. The novel focuses on an undertaker named Runyon who works in Maine in the 1880s. One night, he is asked to take the body of a local woman out to sea. He rides out in his horse and cart as far into the water as it can go until he reaches a sandbank where he finds a row of huts. As instructed, he leaves her body on the shore. A group of people, whom Edgar describes as “primitives” (29) collect her body and take her away. The next morning, as instructed, Runyon returns to collect that body and finds the woman alive and well standing on the shore in the clothes she was buried in. He takes her home and she continues living her life as if nothing had happened...