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Alternative title: Fisher's Ghost
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Appears in:
- y Botany Bay, or, True Stories of the Early Days of Australia London : William Tegg , 1859 Z822154 1859 selected work short story London : William Tegg , 1859
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Appears in:
- y The Australian Journal vol. 15 no. 177 February 1880 Z1010561 1880 periodical issue 1880 pg. 312-316
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Appears in:
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y
Botany Bay, or, True Stories of the Early Days of Australia
London
:
William Tegg
,
1859
Z822154
1859
selected work
short story
Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories of Early Australia
Melbourne
:
E. W. Cole
,
1920
pg.
5-26
Note: With title: Fisher's Ghost
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y
Botany Bay, or, True Stories of the Early Days of Australia
London
:
William Tegg
,
1859
Z822154
1859
selected work
short story
Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories of Early Australia
Melbourne
:
E. W. Cole
,
1920
pg.
5-26
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Appears in:
- y A Century of Australian Short Stories Cecil Hadgraft (editor), R. B. J. Wilson (editor), Melbourne : Heinemann , 1963 Z577475 1963 anthology short story Melbourne : Heinemann , 1963 pg. 1-19
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Appears in:
- y My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years Leonie Kramer (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z219820 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 pg. 34-50
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Appears in:
- y The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories Mary Lord (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 Z307411 1991 anthology short story extract humour satire crime historical fiction (taught in 1 units) Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 pg. 23-43
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Appears in:
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y
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. 1-18
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y
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".'
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Appears in:
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y
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.
Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007 pg. 11-30
'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)
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y
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)
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- Penrith, Penrith area, Sydney Outer West, Sydney, New South Wales,
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