Robert Graves’s short story ‘The Shout’ tells the tale of a mysterious man, Charles, who befriends Richard and Rachel Fielding, a young couple living in a small coastal village. Graves wrote the story in 1926 while in Cairo and revised it in London the following year (although it was not published until 1929). He asserted that the story was true rather than a work of fiction or an UFA film-scenario. A film adaptation of the story, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, was released as The Shout in 1978. It is frequently categorized in the horror genre.