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The second annual compilation of the best fantasy and horror, covering work produced by Australian writers in 2011.
Notes
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Dedication: for Margaret Mahy, Sara Douglass and Paul Haines. Their stories will be with us forever.
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
- The Year in Review, single work essay (p. 13-40)
- Sara Douglass (1957-2011), single work obituary (p. 41-43)
- All You Can Do Is Breathe, single work short story horror (p. 47-61)
- Wraiths, single work short story horror (p. 63-72)
- The Patrician, single work short story fantasy young adult (p. 73-92)
- Dark Me, Night You, single work short story horror (p. 93-102)
- The Coffin-Maker's Daughter, single work short story horror (p. 103-112)
- Someone Else to Play With, single work short story fantasy (p. 113-128)
- The Hall of Lost Footsteps, single work short story fantasy (p. 129-138)
- Bad Power, single work short story horror (p. 139-154)
- At the Top of the Stairs, single work short story horror (p. 155-171)
- Thin Air, single work short story horror (p. 173-182)
- Heaven, single work short story fantasy (p. 183-190)
- More Matter, Less Art, single work short story horror (p. 191-200)
- Berries and Incense, single work short story fantasy horror romance (p. 201-216)
- Letters of Love from the Once and Newly Dead, single work short story horror (p. 217-228)
- The Soul of the Machine, single work short story fantasy (p. 229-242)
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Face to Face,
single work
short story
horror
'Laura is sitting up late with her old friend Maurice, a poet, deeply engaged in discussion when he is moved to reveal the great tragic secret of his youth: the woman he loved was driven by financial need to marry a cruel man who isolated and tormented her and destroyed her writing, which in Maurice’s opinion was quite fine. At last, with her child’s death, Claire took her own life, leaving behind a manuscript, which was found scattered on the floor near her husband’s corpse as he lay with his face “frozen into an expression of indescribable terror, and entirely blanched, as if vitriol had been flung across the features.” This manuscript eventually came into Maurice’s possession, and it has haunted him ever since, although he has never been able to finish reading it.'
Source: Locus Magazine (www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2011/08/lois-tilton-reviews-short-fiction-late-august-2/). (Sighted: 30/11/2016)
- The Head in the Goatskin Bag, single work short story fantasy (p. 255-263)
- Forever, Miss Tapekwa County, single work short story fantasy horror (p. 265-272)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Year in Review
2012
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 2012; (p. 13-40)
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The Year in Review
2012
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 2012; (p. 13-40)
Awards
- 2013 shortlisted Chronos Awards — Best Long Fiction
- 2012 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Anthology Division — Best Anthology