Synopses & Reviews
This anthology of Australian ghost stories--from the 1850s to the present day--draws together a neglected but striking genre of fiction which works to remind those who recently settled the country how unsettled it actually is. Australia becomes the 'down underworld', a place where the dead continue to make their presence felt. The anthology includes the works of many well-known Australian writers, such as Dal Stivens, Lucy Sussex, Barbara Baynton, and Marcus Clarke.
About the Author
Ken Gelder is principal lecturer in English, Media and Cultural Studies at De Montfort University in Leicester. He recently commenced two years' leave of absence from the University of Melbourne, where he is Senior Lecturer in English.
Table of Contents
Editor's Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Ghost Upon the Rail, John Lang
The Illumined Grave, 'W.W.' (Mary Fortune)
The Ghostly White Gate, 'W.W.'
Human Repetends, Marcus Clarke
Holiday Peak, Marcus Clarke
The Rubria Ghost, 'Tasma' (Jessie Couvreur)
The Ghost of Wanganilla: Founded on Fact, Ellen Augusta Chads
The Bunyip, Rosa Campbell Praed
The Haunted Station, Hume Nisbet
With Three Phantoms, Guy Boothby
The Trucker's Dream, Edward Dyson
The Red Lagoon, Ernest Favenc
The Evil of Yelcomorn Creek, 'Coo-ee' (William Sylvester Walker
A Ghost of the Australian Interior, 'Coo-ee
A Dreamer, Barbara Baynton
At Coomassie Gully, 'Bushwoman' (Laura M. Palmer-Archer)
An Australian Rip Van Winkle, William Hay
Fourteen Fathoms by Quetta Rock, Randolph Bedford
The Ghost That Came to Darwin, Murray Gordon
Vision in the Forest, Myra Morris
Ironbark Bill Meets the Bunyip, Dal Stivens
The Hard-Working Ghost, Dal Stivens
The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow, 'Brian James' (John Tierney)
Are the Dead Envious of the Living?, Ethel Anderson
A Schoolie and a Ghost, David Rowbotham
The Bunyip, Percy Mumbulla
The Bugeen, Percy Mumbulla
Living Ghost, Paddy Roe
Quartet in Death Minor, Lucy Sussex
Going Nowhere, Sean Williams
The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap, Terry Dowling
Sources and Acknowledgments