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A collection of stories dealing with occult mysteries.
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Dedication: With affectionate regards and warm admiration for his poetic gifts, I beg to dedicate these stories to my dear friend, The Hon. Roden Noel.
Contents
- The Odic Touch, single work short story horror (p. 34-48)
- An Ocean Dream, single work novella horror mystery (p. 49-68)
- A Queensland Iliad, single work short story horror mystery fantasy (p. 69-88)
- The Demon Spell, single work short story horror (p. 89-98)
- A Face at the Window, single work short story (p. 99-111)
- The Phantom Model, single work short story horror (p. 112-130)
- Marrie St. Pierre, single work short story horror (p. 131-136)
- Through the Gap, single work novella adventure (p. 137-181)
- A Deadly Voyage, single work short story adventure (p. 182-226)
- Delphine, single work novella adventure (p. 227-279)
- Humphrey Bolin's Account of the Spanish Armada Invasion, single work novella historical fiction (p. 280-314)
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The Haunted Station,
single work
short story
horror
mystery
"The narrator of his ghost story, a medical practitioner, becomes a convict after he is wrongly accused of his wife’s murder and transported to the Australian colonies to work in Fremantle building roads. After landing in Australia he seeks his liberty by fleeing into the bush with two fellow convicts. Taking advantage of the capture and shooting of his accomplices, the narrator makes his escape into the wilderness—travelling to a “far off and as yet unnamed portion of Western Australia” (Nisbet 116). Wandering delirious in a hostile environment, Nisbet’s narrator, who is “expectant of something ghoulish and unnatural” to come upon him from “the sepulchral gloom and mystery” (110), suddenly comes upon “a house of two storeys”.
Source: "National Hauntings: The Architecture of Australian Ghost Stories" by David Crouch.
