"The Shout" is a supernatural short story by Robert Graves, completed in 1927 and first published in 1929. It tells the story of a young couple whose marriage is threatened by the intervention of a character with supernatural powers, including the ability to produce a shout that can kill all those around him. It is informed by the circumstances in which it was written, Graves suffering at the time from neurasthenia as a result of his experiences in the First World War, and struggling with his relationships with his first wife, Nancy Nicholson, and the American poet Laura Riding. "The Shout" has been critically acclaimed:[1] Richard Perceval Graves considered it his most successful short story,[2] Christopher Isherwood called it "sheer terror from beginning to end",[3] while for Martin Seymour-Smith it was a "brilliant" achievement, having a sense of urgency matched only by his I, Claudius, Claudius the God and The White Goddess.[4] It was filmed by Jerzy Skolimowski in 1978.