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A presence haunts an old dresser in an inner-city share house. Shining sun-people lure children from their carefree beachside lives. Sheela-na-gigs colonise a middle-aged man's outer and inner worlds. A girl with a heavy conscience seeks relief in exile on the Treeless Plain.
These stories from four-time World Fantasy Award winner Margo Lanagan are all set in Australia, a myth-soaked landscape both stubbornly inscrutable and crisscrossed by interlopers' dreamings. Explore four littoral and liminal worlds, a-crackle with fears and possibilities. --Cover blurb.
Notes
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Introduction by Jane Yolen.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Yokine,
Stirling area,
Northern Perth,
Perth,
Western Australia,:Twelfth Planet Press
, 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Duchess Dresser, single work short story fantasy horror (p. 1-23)
- The Isles of the Sun, single work short story fantasy horror (p. 25-43)
- Bajazzle, single work short story fantasy horror (p. 45-69)
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Significant Dust,
single work
short story
horror
science fiction
(p. 71-104)
A young woman who, in a playful accident years earlier, paralysed her sister takes her grief and regret out to a roadhouse on the Nullarbor Plain, where she encounters a man who, impossibly, sloughs black dust from his body.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Short Stories Initiative Deserves Stellar Success
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 September 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of Cracklescape 2012 selected work short story ; Through Splintered Walls : A Twelve Planets Collection 2012 selected work short story ; Salvage 2012 single work novella
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Short Stories Initiative Deserves Stellar Success
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 September 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of Cracklescape 2012 selected work short story ; Through Splintered Walls : A Twelve Planets Collection 2012 selected work short story ; Salvage 2012 single work novella
Awards
- 2013 finalist Locus Awards — Collection
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