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Terror Australis: The Best of Australian Horror
Leigh Blackmore
(editor),
Rydalmere
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Hodder and Stoughton
,
1993
Z188909
1993
anthology
short story
Anthology of Australian-written horror stories.
Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1993 pg. 15-30
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Terror Australis: The Best of Australian Horror
Leigh Blackmore
(editor),
Rydalmere
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Hodder and Stoughton
,
1993
Z188909
1993
anthology
short story
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The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories
Ken Gelder
(editor),
Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
1994
Z356827
1994
anthology
short story
crime
young adult
'Did Australian ghosts suffer from a cultural cringe? Dr Ken Gelder indicates in the introduction to another fascinating OUP anthology that early ghost stories were essentially a "transported genre" that looked back to England as their source. Thus John Lang's well-known story "The Ghost upon
the Rail" is based upon a case of murder for post-convict wealth.
Gelder argues that Australian ghost stories possess their own ironical flavour, but the gothic tradition has to be resolved in outback locations or deserted mining towns, as in David Rowbotham's "A Schoolie and the Ghost".'
'Gelder relies heavily on Victorian and Edwardian writers, such as Marcus Clarke, Barbara Baynton and Hume Nisbet, as if unsure as to the nature of contemporary ghosts. It is interesting to see that Australia's science fiction writers, such as Lucy Sussex and Terry Dowling, provide the link between the past and the present. Dowling's "The Daeman Street Ghost-Trap" effectively uses traditional settings to link ghosts with a current horror, namely cancer. Several bunyip stories remind us of a particular Antipodean creature to stand against the assorted European manifestations.'
(Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.55).
Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1994 pg. 281-292
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The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories
Ken Gelder
(editor),
Melbourne
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Oxford University Press
,
1994
Z356827
1994
anthology
short story
crime
young adult
'Did Australian ghosts suffer from a cultural cringe? Dr Ken Gelder indicates in the introduction to another fascinating OUP anthology that early ghost stories were essentially a "transported genre" that looked back to England as their source. Thus John Lang's well-known story "The Ghost upon
the Rail" is based upon a case of murder for post-convict wealth.
Gelder argues that Australian ghost stories possess their own ironical flavour, but the gothic tradition has to be resolved in outback locations or deserted mining towns, as in David Rowbotham's "A Schoolie and the Ghost".'
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- y The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror : Seventh Annual Collection Terri Windling (editor), Ellen Datlow (editor), New York (City) : St. Martin's Press , 1994 6390562 1994 anthology short story horror fantasy New York (City) : St. Martin's Press , 1994 pg. 39-48
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An Intimate Knowledge of the Night
North Adelaide
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Aphelion Publications
,
1995
Z350550
1995
selected work
horror
'When an author sits down to write the linking pieces for the stories in his new book, planning to do it by the hours of the night observed by medieval scholars, he is interrupted by phonecalls from his eccentric yet harmless friend, Raymond, a former mental patient with whom he shares some curious notions about the perceived world. At first casual and interested, even helpful, these calls soon become increasingly tense and strange, until the author realizes that what started out as an innocent fun idea - a shared all-night vigil on the autumn Equinox - is actually serving some other vital purpose, becoming by stages part therapy, party incantatory process, part vindication of those very theories which will change forever the way he sees the world.' (Source: bookseller's website.)
North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1995 pg. 55-78
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An Intimate Knowledge of the Night
North Adelaide
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Aphelion Publications
,
1995
Z350550
1995
selected work
horror
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- y Basic Black : Tales of Appropriate Fear Robert Morrish (editor), Baltimore : Cemetery Dance Publications , 2006 Z1358279 2006 selected work short story horror Baltimore : Cemetery Dance Publications , 2006 pg. 13-25
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