| Description |
xviii, 294 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
John Lang (1816 - 64) -- The Ghost Upon the Rail -- 'W. W.' (Mary Fortune) (?1833-?) -- The Illumined Grave -- The Ghostly White Gate -- Marcus Clarke (1846-81) -- Human Repetends -- Holiday Peak -- 'Tasma' (Jessie Couvreur) (1848 - 97) -- The Rubria Ghost -- Ellen Augusta Chads (dates unknown) -- The Ghost of Wanganilla: Founded on Fact -- Rosa Campbell Praed (1851 - 1935) -- The Bunyip -- Hume Nisbet (1849 - 1921) -- The Haunted Station -- Guy Boothby (1867-1905) -- With Three Phantoms -- Edward Dyson (1865-1931) -- The Trucker's Dream -- Ernest Favenc (1845 - 1908) -- The Red Lagoon -- 'Coo-Ee' (William Sylvester Walker) (1846 - ?) -- The Evil of Yelcomorn Creek -- A Ghost of the Australian Interior -- Barbara Bayniton (1857-1929) -- A Dreamer -- 'Bushwoman' (Laura M. Palmer-Archer) (1864-1929) -- At Coomassie Gully -- William Hay (1875 - 1945) -- An Australian Rip Van Winkle -- Randolph Bedford (1868-1941) -- Fourteen Fathoms by Quetta Rock -- Murray Gordon (dates unknown) |
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The Ghost That Came to Darwin -- Myra Morris (1893 - 1966) -- Vision in the Forest -- Dal Stevens (1911-) -- Ironbark Bill Meets the Bunyip -- The Hard-Working Ghost -- 'Brian James' (John Tierney) (1892-1972) -- The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow -- Ethel Anderson (1883 - 1958) -- Are the Dead Envious of the Living? -- David Rowbotham (1924-) -- A Schoolie and a Ghost -- Percy Mumbulla (dates unknown) -- The Bunyip -- The Bugeen -- Paddy Roe (?1912 -) -- Living Ghost -- Lucy Sussex (1957-) -- Quartet in Death Minor -- Sean Williams (1967 -) -- Going Nowhere -- Terry Dowling, (1947-) -- The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap |
| Summary |
Anthology of Australian ghost stories from the 1850s to the present day |
| Analysis |
Australia |
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English fiction Ghost stories |
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Australia |
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English fiction Ghost stories |
| Notes |
Short stories |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Ghost stories, Australian.
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Horror tales, Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Gelder, Ken, 1955-
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| LC no. |
95101217 |
| ISBN |
019553560X |
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