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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 The Site
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'Ex-cop Kerry Staines wanted a fresh start. What he found in the little town of Mallen was ... The Site - cursed for 10 000 years. A place where black legends and white spirits meet. Where a young girl lies murdered, her soul restless while the guilty go unpunished. Where a maximum security prison is planned, on ground that holds the town's shocking secrets.

'Mallen's shameful past will not stay buried, and Kerry Staines is going straight to hell'. (Source: back cover blurb.)

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The Australian Horror Novel Since 1950 James Doig , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 112-127) According to James Doig the horror genre 'was overlooked by the popular circulating libraries in Australia.' In this chapter he observes that this 'marginalization of horror reflects both the trepidation felt by the conservative library system towards 'penny dreadfuls,' and the fact that horror had limited popular appeal with the British (and Australian) reading public.' Doig concludes that there is 'no Australian author of horror novels with the same commercial cachet' as authors of fantasy or science fiction. He proposes that if Australian horror fiction wants to compete successfully 'in the long-term it needs to develop a flourishing and vibrant small press contingent prepared to nurture new talent' like the USA and UK small presses.' (Editor's foreword xii)
Reviews Bill Congreve , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 17 1996; (p. 74-75)
— Review of The Site J. Radford Keir , 1996 single work novel
Reviews Bill Congreve , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 17 1996; (p. 74-75)
— Review of The Site J. Radford Keir , 1996 single work novel
The Australian Horror Novel Since 1950 James Doig , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 112-127) According to James Doig the horror genre 'was overlooked by the popular circulating libraries in Australia.' In this chapter he observes that this 'marginalization of horror reflects both the trepidation felt by the conservative library system towards 'penny dreadfuls,' and the fact that horror had limited popular appeal with the British (and Australian) reading public.' Doig concludes that there is 'no Australian author of horror novels with the same commercial cachet' as authors of fantasy or science fiction. He proposes that if Australian horror fiction wants to compete successfully 'in the long-term it needs to develop a flourishing and vibrant small press contingent prepared to nurture new talent' like the USA and UK small presses.' (Editor's foreword xii)
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Subjects:
  • Country towns,
Settings:
  • Queensland,
  • 1990s
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