Australian Hauntings: A Second Anthology of Australian Colonial Supernatural Fiction by James Doig (Editor)
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Overview: Twenty stories of horror, the supernatural, and ghostly hauntings. These tales show the way in which the Gothic form has been transposed to a new, alien environment–Australia! The outback, the desert, the bush are imbued with strange forces and beings that European explorers and fossickers must fathom and overcome. The colonists struggle to cope with the harsh landscape and climate, and are frequently claimed by it. The land itself seems almost a malignant force that exacts a terrible revenge on those who challenge it or wander thoughtlessly into its desert wastes. Thus, in many of the stories reprinted here, characters range across a landscape in which the supernatural can reach out and snatch the unwary at any time. Characters frequently fall victim to the bush; indeed, often it is the children, symbols of innocence and European naïveté, who fall victim to the evil "spirits" lurking just beyond human ken. Doig has resurrected these marvelous haunts from rare magazines and equally scarce collections, and has provided hard-to-find information about the authors and the times in which they lived. For any aficionado of the classic macabre tale, this anthology will be a treasure trove of chilling reading!
Genre: Speculative Fiction|Anthology|Australian
Contents:
INTRODUCTION: THE COLONIAL GHOST STORY
JERRY BOAKE’S CONFESSION, by Ernest Favenc
THE TRACK OF THE DEAD, by Ernest Favenc
BLOOD FOR BLOOD, by Ernest Favenc
IN THE NIGHT, by Ernest Favenc
A STRANGE OCCURRENCE ON HUCKEY’S CREEK, by Ernest Favence
THE WRAITH OF TOM IMRIE, by William Sylvester Walker
HULK NO. 49, by J. A. Barry
MISS CROSSON’S FAMILIAR, by Rosa Praed
THE GHOST OF BRIGALOW BEND, by “Wanderer”
THE SPECTRE OF THE BLACK SWAMP: AN OVERLANDER’S STORY, by Edwin M. Merrall
CHRONICLES OF EASYVILLE, by Patrick Shanahan
POINT DESPAIR, by H. B. Marriott Watson
A NEW SPECIES, by Robert Coutts Armour
DE PROFUNDIS, by Robert Coutts Armour
THE STORY OF THE STAIN, by Sophie Osmond
THE STRANGE CASES OF DR. WYCHERLEY, by Max Rittenberg
THE QUEER CASE OF CHRISTINE MADRIGAL, by A. E. Martin
THE HOLLMSDALE HORROR, by A. E. Martin
THE PYTHONESS, by Helen Simpson
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, by Patience Tillyard
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