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I Am My Father's Daughter single work   short story   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 I Am My Father's Daughter
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A father believes his daughter, Cindy, had died on Sydney's mean streets and hires a private investigator to find her body. The PI soon finds out, however, that nobody is telling him the truth, and that Cindy is alive and much more than she seems.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Crosstown Traffic Stuart Coupe (editor), Julie Ogden (editor), Robert Hood (editor), Wollongong : Five Islands Press Mean Streets , 1993 Z310726 1993 anthology short story crime satire Wollongong : Five Islands Press Mean Streets , 1993 pg. 157-195
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    y separately published work icon Epiphanies of Blood : Tales of Desperation and Thirst Bill Congreve , Parramatta : MirrorDanse Books , 1998 Z395718 1998 selected work short story horror

    'These are stories of madness, the love of children, and terror that breaks through the calm of everyday life to reveal the shifting uncertainties that lie below. Reading Congreve's mutant vampire fiction you won't know whether to be terrified or delighted:

    A father pursues his errant son into the wilds of far north Queensland, chasing more than mere revenge; a vampire child murders her father in a small country town, and Father Luigi Calvino must discover why; a millionaire socialite kidnaps a girl child from the basement of a vampire's suburban home; a father hires a private investigator to find the body of his daughter, Cindy, on Sydney's mean streets, but Cindy is alive and much more than she seems; hack journalist Tony Masters is doublecrossed by his editor and consigned to Hell to interview Satan, endlessly, and there he meets a creature out of the worst nightmares of a Japanese B-grade monster movie producer; and a mother vampire struggles to feed and protect her children in Sydney's western suburbs.'

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         Parramatta : MirrorDanse Books , 1998     pg. 45-74
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