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y separately published work icon Deck the Halls : Festive Tales of Fear and Cheer anthology   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Deck the Halls : Festive Tales of Fear and Cheer
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'DECK THE HALLS traverses the joy and jeopardy of the festive season, from Yule to Mōdraniht, Summer Solstice to Years’ End. The stories journey through consternations and celebrations, past, present and future, which might be or never were.

'Along the way you’ll meet troll hunters, consumer dissidents, corset-bound adventurers, a joint-toking spirit, big-hearted gangbangers, an outcast hybrid spaceship, petrol-toting politicians, mythical swingers and a boy who unwittingly controls the weather.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.

  • Only works written by Australian authors or set in Australia are individually indexed on AustLit.

    This anthology also includes the works of the following international authors: Sam Adamson, Trevor Belshaw, Jim Bronyour, Jen Brubacher, Christopher Chartrand, Rob Diaz II, Rebecca Emin, Chia Evers, Susan May James, P.J. Kaiser, Emma Kerry, Nik Perring, Dan Powell, Dale Challener-Roe, Kate Sherrod, Icy Sedgwick, Paul Servini, and Alison Wells.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Brisbane, Queensland,:eMergent Publishing , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Touched, Rowena Specht-Whyte , single work short story fantasy horror (p. 1-6)
Drench the School, Benjamin Solah , single work short story (p. 7-14)
Coming Home, Rebecca L. Dobbie , single work short story

A man returns to his home town ten years after a tragedy.

 (p. 15-22)
Gays and Commies, Graham Storrs , single work short story (p. 45-50)
Salvation, Nicole R. Murphy , single work short story science fiction

A space shuttle, part of a fleet forming a new Earth free from consumerism, comes across a space station extravagantly decorated for Christmas.

 (p. 57-64)
A Troll for Christmas, Jo Hart , single work short story fantasy

A Christmas Day troll hunt brings up past feelings between former lovers.

 (p. 65-70)
The Headless Shadow, Jonathan Crossfield , single work short story fantasy

An old man sits by the fire on Christmas eve and faces his coming death.

 (p. 99-106)
Not a Whisper, Lily Mulholland , single work short story

On Christmas Day 1901, Dylan Blake, convict-musician turned eminent composer, tells his traditional story of Christmas Eve 1864 and the bushranger Harry Power.

 (p. 119-126)
Through the Frosted Window, Laura Meyer , single work short story fantasy

A man seeks a cure for the long-term disease that has forced him to keep his wife in stasis–but the disease is not what it seems.

 (p. 127-132)
Lords of the Dance, Janette Dalgliesh , single work short story fantasy

For New York lawyer Paul Griffin, life is not entirely what it seems.

 (p. 133-138)
Midsummer's Eve, S. G. Larner , single work short story

A story of a marriage breakdown and the Wild Hunt, set in Queensland.

 (p. 139-146)
Broken Angel, Jodi Cleghorn , single work short story

Christmas brings up long-forgotten memories for a teenage girl.

 (p. 155-160)
Softly Sing the Stars, Steve Cameron , single work short story science fiction

A sole astronaut on a long-distance transport run begins to hear the stars singing to him.

 (p. 213-220)
Through Wind and Weather, David McDonald , single work short story science fiction

A pilot and his self-aware spaceship must out-race a solar storm to deliver cargo to distant colonists.

 (p. 221-226)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Brisbane, Queensland,: eMergent Publishing , 2012 .
      image of person or book cover 5391762526418293151.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 226p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 10 July 2012.
      ISBN: 9780987112644, 9780987112651
      Series: Literary Mix Tapes series - publisher

      The series name under which eMergent Publishing produces its collections of short works.

      The stories for these collections are sourced on social media, and each collection is themed around either a particular song (for example, From Stage Door Shadows) or by a themed collection of music (for example, Eighty Nine).

             Number in series: 3
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