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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Going Nowhere
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    y separately published work icon Intimate Armageddons Bill Congreve (editor), Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 1992 Z457201 1992 anthology short story horror

    Collection of horror short stories.

         Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 1992     pg. 127-144
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    y separately published work icon 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. 267-280
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    y separately published work icon New Adventures in Sci-Fi Sean Williams , Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 1999 Z797676 1999 selected work short story science fiction horror Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 1999 pg. 106-121
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    y separately published work icon Light Bodies Falling Sean Williams , Blackwood : Altair Publishing , 2007 18794144 2007 selected work short story Blackwood : Altair Publishing , 2007
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  • Nullarbor area (South Australia), Far North South Australia, South Australia,
  • Nullarbor area (Western Australia), Southeast Western Australia, Western Australia,
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