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Product details
- ISBN 9780712369619
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 2026
- Publisher: British Library Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Bunyips, boundary riders and bush-lurkers: just some of the horrors that populate these tales of the Antipodean uncanny.
The Australian weird tradition may be a short one, but it’s as varied and rich as anything you’ll find in the Old World. Many of these tales – from the likes of Marcus Clarke, Sophie Osmond, Ernest Favenc and Mary Fortune – are written by strangers in a new land. Traditional European elements of the weird tale appear in new forms or are moulded afresh to a harsh new environment – the haunted house is no longer a rambling manor, but an abandoned shanty or rundown homestead; the ancient wood, the lair of evils and creatures from folklore, becomes the oppressively hot, fly-infested bush; and the windswept moor is the empty, endless Australian outback with its blood-read sands and emaciated myall trees. The anthology also includes Aboriginal voices, providing a very different take on the landscape and its horrors.
James Doig has published four anthologies of Australian supernatural and weird fiction as well as a number of single-author collections by colonial Australian writers such as Ernest Favenc and H.B. Marriott Watson. He has worked at the National Archives of Australia for more than twenty years, and has published many articles on the Australian and British supernatural fiction traditions.
