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y separately published work icon The Haunted Station single work   short story   horror   mystery  
Issue Details: First known date: 1894... 1894 The Haunted Station
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    y separately published work icon The Haunted Station and Other Stories Hume Nisbet , London : F. V. White , 1894 Z1011869 1894 selected work short story London : F. V. White , 1894
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    y separately published work icon Perturbed Spirits R. C. Bull (editor), London : Arthur Barker , 1954 Z1926069 1954 anthology short story horror London : Arthur Barker , 1954 pg. 233-254
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    y separately published work icon Tales of Horror Charles Higham , Melbourne London : Horwitz , 1962 Z1728748 1962 anthology short story horror Melbourne London : Horwitz , 1962 pg. 61-85
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    y separately published work icon Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard Hugh Lamb (editor), London : W. H. Allen , 1979 Z1926102 1979 anthology short story horror London : W. H. Allen , 1979 pg. 9-28
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    y separately published work icon Tales From Beyond The Grave London : Octopus Publishing Group , 1982 Z1926113 1982 anthology short story fantasy horror

    Twenty-seven tales of horror and the fantastic from some of speculative fiction's leading authors, including: Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, H. G. Wells, Hume Nisbett, J. R. R. Tolkien, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, Artrhur Conan Doyle, Robert Bloch, Mark Twain, Elizabeth Gaskell, E. M. Forster, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde.

         London : Octopus Publishing Group , 1982     pg. 33-48
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    y separately published work icon Dead Witness : Best Australian Mystery Stories Stephen Knight (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1989 Z100512 1989 anthology short story crime mystery Ringwood : Penguin , 1989 pg. 61-82
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    y separately published work icon Impressions : West Coast Fiction 1829-1988 Peter Cowan (editor), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1989 Z178100 1989 anthology short story extract humour Short stories and extracts from novels by Western Australian writers (visitors and residents) representing a wide range of changing responses to place over time. Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1989 pg. 43-58
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    y separately published work icon 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. 110-126
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    y separately published work icon 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.

    '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)

         Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007     pg. 173-192
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,
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