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Johnnie Holme single work   short story  
  • Author:agent Francis Adams http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/adams-francis
Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 Johnnie Holme
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The narrator of this story is surprised to discover that Jonnie Holmes, an intelligent bush-bred young man, believes in ghosts. One evening, Jonnie tells him about the two kinds of ghosts he believes in and what happened when he saw one of them.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: The Hut by the Tanks
Notes:
Variant title appears in 'Australian Life' and 'Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction'
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Boomerang 7 July 1888 Z633576 1888 periodical issue 1888 pg. 9
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Boomerang 19 May 1888 Z633972 1888 periodical issue 1888 pg. 9-10
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Life Francis Adams , London : Chapman and Hall , 1892 Z470106 1892 selected work short story London : Chapman and Hall , 1892 pg. 177-191
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction Ken Gelder (editor), Rachael Weaver (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007 Z1415120 2007 anthology short story extract horror mystery science fiction historical fiction children's (taught in 7 units)

    'This anthology collects the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the stuff of nightmares.

    'In stories by Marcus Clarke, Mary Fortune and Henry Lawson, the colonial homestead is wracked by haunted images of murder and revenge. Settlers are disoriented and traumatised as they stumble into forbidden places and explorers disappear, only to return as ghostly figures with terrible tales to tell. These compelling stories are the dark underside to the usual story of colonial progress, promise and nation-building, and reveal just how vivid the gothic imagination is at the heart of Australian fiction.' (Publication summary)

         Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007     pg. 127-138
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Subjects:
  • Bush,
  • Queensland,
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