Australian NightmaresMore Australian Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Literary scholar James Doig has assembled a thrilling new collection of rare and previously uncollected horror and dark fantasy stories by Australian authors, all from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are—
1. The Blighted Meadow, by Mary Fortune
2. The Silent Sepulchre, by Charles Junor
3. What The Rats Brought, by Ernest Favenc
4. On The Island Of Shadows, by Ernest Favenc
5. The Odic Touch, by Hume Nisbet
6. Told In The ‘Corona’s’ Cabin On Three Evenings, by J.A. Barry
7. The House Of Ill Omen, by Rosa Praed
8. A Thing Of Wax, by Morley Roberts
9. The Prophetic Horror Of The Great Experiment, by James Edmund
10. The Precipitous Details Of The High Mountain And The Three Skeletons, by James Edmund
11. The Strange Case Of Alan Heriot, by Lionel Sparrow
12. The Blanket Fiend, by Beatrice Grimshaw
13. The Phantom Ship Of Dirk Van Tromp, by James Francis Dwyer
14. The Devil’s Ball, by Dulcie Deamer
15. The Pledge, by Helen Simpson
16. The Watch, by Vernon Knowles
17. The House That Took Revenge, by Vernon Knowles
18. The Undying One, by Roger Dard
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James Doig
James Doig grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. He was educated at the University of Western Australia, and the University of Wales, Swansea, where he completed a PhD in medieval history. He has long been a devotee of horror fiction, and subscribes to the T.E.D. Klein view that interest in such things begins in the crib. He has published articles on obscure writers of supernatural and horror fiction such as R.R. Ryan, Keith Fleming, and R. Murray Gilchrist, and has edited a collection of shot stories by the Australian-born writer H.B. Marriot Watson for Ash-Tree Press. He has completed an anthology of early Australian supernatural fiction, which is currently under consideration by Ash-Tree. He works at the National Archives of Australia, where the research for his article was carried out.
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