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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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The Australian Horror Novel Since 1950
Subjects:
- Bedlam 1992 single work novel
- The Fungus 1985 single work novel
- Torched! 1986 single work novel
- Tendrils 1986 single work novel
- The Fungus 1985 single work novel
- Slimer 1983 single work novel
- Worm 1987 single work novel
- Carnosaur 1984 single work novel
- His Natural Life 1870-1872 single work novel
- Bonescribes : The Year's Best Australian Horror 1995 1996 anthology short story
- Wake in Fright 1961 single work novel
- The Blue Feather 1997 single work novel
- Gothic Hospital 2001 single work novel
- Shadows Bite 2001 single work novel
- Dark Suspense : The End of the Line 2008 single work criticism
- Strange Objects 1990 single work novel
- Foreign Bodies 1999 single work novel
- The Art of Arrow Cutting 1997 single work novel
- Clowns at Midnight 2006 single work novel
- Basic Black : Tales of Appropriate Fear 2006 selected work short story
- Blackwater Days 2000 selected work short story
- D 1995 single work novel
- The Pilo Family Circus 2006 single work novel
- An Intimate Knowledge of the Night 1995 selected work
- Ghost Beyond Earth 1993 single work novel
- A Place to Fear 1994 single work novel
- Voices of Evil 1996 single work novel
- The Devil's Numbers 1997 single work novel
- Spooks and Spirits : Eight Eerie Tales 1978 anthology children's fiction
- The Vicar of Morbing Vyle 1993 single work novel
- The Black Crusade 2004 single work novel
- Worldshaker 2009 single work novel
- The Living Dead 1942 single work novel
- The Ghost Writer 2004 single work novel
- The Seance 2008 single work novel
- Kristen 1999 single work novel
- Tales of Horror 1962 anthology short story
- The Curse of Dracula and Other Terrifying Tales 1962 anthology short story
- Nightmare Stories 1962 anthology short story
- Patrick 1978 single work novel
- Weird Stories 1961 anthology short story
- Tales of Terror 1962 anthology short story
- Spine-Tingling Tales 1962 anthology short story
- Slime Zone 1996 single work children's fiction
- Loco-Zombies 1996 single work children's fiction
- Freak Out! 1996 single work children's fiction
- The Site 1996 single work novel
- The Dead Path 2009 single work novel
- Shudders and Shakes : Ghostly Tales from Australia 1974 anthology children's fiction extract
- The Ivory Trail 1999 single work novel
- Into the Dark 1999 single work novel
- Born of the Sea 2003 single work novel
- Picnic at Hanging Rock 1967 single work novel
- The Green Piper 1984 single work novel
- Del-Del 1991 single work novel
- Double God 1994 single work novel
- The Mummy Walks 1949 single work novella
- Carnies 2006 single work novel
- Curse of the Mummy 1950 single work novella
- Madigan Mine 2010 single work novel
- The Mother 2006 single work novel
- The Darkness Within 2007 single work novel
- Ape of God 1942 single work novel
- Wolfblood 1944 single work novel
- Darkland 1995 single work novel
- The Last Wave 1977 single work novel
- Thirst 1979 single work novel
- Razorback 1984 single work film/TV
- Visitants 1979 single work novel
- Funnelweb 1997 single work novel
- The Music of Razors 2001 single work novel
- Flight into Horror 1951 single work novella
- Evil Seed of the Father 1996 single work novel
- The Scarlet Rider 1996 single work novel
- The Suburbs of Hell : A Novel 1984 single work novel
- Fangs of the Vampire 1955 single work novella
- Slights 2009 single work novel
- The Abominable Snowman 1954 single work novella
- The Living Dead 1955 single work novella
- Back from the Dead 1955 single work novella
- The Resurrectionists 2000 single work novel
- Grimoire 1999 single work novel
- A Handful of Ghosts : Thirteen Eerie Tales by Australian Authors 1976 anthology short story
- The Infernal 1997 single work novel
- The Witch Hunters 1963 single work novel
- Shock Stories 1962 selected work short story
- Terrifying Stories 1963 selected work short story
- Horror Tales 1963 selected work short story
- The Mummy's Curse 1962 single work short story
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