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| Author | : Ken Gelder |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Ghost stories |
| ISBN | : |
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Three phantoms wander the desert; a ghostly lover claims his bride at an outback station; a dead man appears beside a blood-red waterhole; a jackaroo witnesses a ghostly struggle; a frightful monster haunts the Nullarbor Plain. This anthology of Australian ghost stories - from the 1850s to the present - draws together a neglected but striking genre of fiction that works to remind those who recently settled this country how unsettled it actually is. New arrivals stumble across empty houses with ghostly occupants; lonely bushmen fantasise about ghostly women; Aborigines tell of bunyips, bugeens and 'living ghosts'; the bush is full of beckoning spectral images; and Death himself is seen prowling the streets. In these stories Australia becomes the 'down-underworld', a place where the departed will inevitably be resurrected in time, and where the dead continue to make their presence felt.
| Author | : Kenneth Gelder |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Ghost stories, Australian |
| ISBN | : 9780195539554 |
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First published in hardcover in 1994, this paperback edition contains stories from the 1850s to the present. The stories feature a wide range of spectres including bunyips, bugeens, and 'living ghosts'. Authors include Marcus Clarke, Terry Dowling and Lucy Sussex. Includes an introduction by the editor who teaches English at the University of Melbourne.
| Author | : Michael Cox |
| Publisher | : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 521 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : English fiction |
| ISBN | : 0192804472 |
Download The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
| Author | : Ken Gelder |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Ghost stories |
| ISBN | : |
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Three phantoms wander the desert; a ghostly lover claims his bride at an outback station; a dead man appears beside a blood-red waterhole; a jackaroo witnesses a ghostly struggle; a frightful monster haunts the Nullarbor Plain. This anthology of Australian ghost stories - from the 1850s to the present - draws together a neglected but striking genre of fiction that works to remind those who recently settled this country how unsettled it actually is. New arrivals stumble across empty houses with ghostly occupants; lonely bushmen fantasise about ghostly women; Aborigines tell of bunyips, bugeens and 'living ghosts'; the bush is full of beckoning spectral images; and Death himself is seen prowling the streets. In these stories Australia becomes the 'down-underworld', a place where the departed will inevitably be resurrected in time, and where the dead continue to make their presence felt.
| Author | : Michael Cox |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 019955630X |
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The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, T. H. White, Walter de la Mare, and Elizabeth Bowen in the UK to Edith Wharton in America. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and its popularity is as great as ever.
| Author | : Michael COX |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Richard Davis |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2012-07-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1743095902 |
Download Great Australian Ghost Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Australia has a rich history of ghost sightings and spooky tales, from the time of European settlement until today - and they are all here in GREAT AUSTRALIAN GHOST STORIES. From gore-spattered convicts and elegant women out of our colonial past to the mysterious ghost lights of the outback and angry poltergeists that wreak havoc on modern homes, Australia seems to be teeming with the restless spirits of our ancestors. You'll meet a wide cross section of them in this far-reaching collection of stories drawn from all the Australian states and covering two centuries of our nation's history. Some ghosts are vengeful, some aloof, others mysterious, sad, kind, wistful or amusing, but all share one quality - they're scary - and their stories are hair-raising. You'll join a terrified young couple on a Ferris wheel when a spectre appears inside their cage, you'll learn about Australia's most famous ghost and visit Australia's most notorious haunted house where icy hands gripped the throats of unsuspecting visitors. You'll meet a ghost made famous by Henry Lawson, discover what 'the haunted dunny' means to the people of a village in the Barossa Valley and share in the terror of a medical student when a cadaver comes back from the dead and takes up residence in the student's laptop. So, dear reader, if you have the courage, make sure the doors and windows are locked, settle in your favourite chair, keep a blanket handy (for when your blood runs cold) and join Richard Davis on this remarkable journey behind the veil that separates the mortal from the eternal - right here in our own back yard.
| Author | : James Doig |
| Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2014-03-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1479409286 |
Download Australian Hauntings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Twenty stories of horror, the supernatural, and ghostly hauntings. These tales show the way in which the Gothic form has been transposed to a new, alien environment--Australia! The outback, the desert, the bush are imbued with strange forces and beings that European explorers and fossickers must fathom and overcome. The colonists struggle to cope with the harsh landscape and climate, and are frequently claimed by it. The land itself seems almost a malignant force that exacts a terrible revenge on those who challenge it or wander thoughtlessly into its desert wastes. Thus, in many of the stories reprinted here, characters range across a landscape in which the supernatural can reach out and snatch the unwary at any time. Characters frequently fall victim to the bush; indeed, often it is the children, symbols of innocence and European naïveté, who fall victim to the evil "spirits" lurking just beyond human ken. Doig has resurrected these marvelous haunts from rare magazines and equally scarce collections, and has provided hard-to-find information about the authors and the times in which they lived. For any aficionado of the classic macabre tale, this anthology will be a treasure trove of chilling reading!
| Author | : Lynette Carpenter |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2015-01-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317943538 |
Download Ghost Stories by British and American Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in 1998 and covering a tradition ignored by most critics, this bibliography assembles and documents a large body of supernatural fiction written by women in English from the end of the 18th century to the present. These stories, the work of women whose literary reputations, personal histories, and bodies of work vary widely, challenge the narrow way in which supernatural literature has traditionally been regarded: they indicate a much richer and more complex set of literary responses to the supernatural than has been hitherto acknowledged. The writers included range from Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic novelists to Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Gilman, and Edith Wharton to such modern writers as Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and A.S. Byatt. The volume will be of interest to literary and cultural historians and of particular importance to women's studies scholars.
| Author | : S. Hay |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2011-10-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230316832 |
Download A History of the Modern British Ghost Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.
