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-
THE BLIGHTED MEADOW, by Mary FortuneTHE SILENT SEPULCHRE, by Charles Junor
WHAT THE RATS BROUGHT, by Ernest Favenc
ON THE ISLAND OF SHADOWS, by Ernest Favenc
THE ODIC TOUCH, by Hume Nisbet
TOLD IN THE 'CORONA'S' CABIN ON THREE EVENINGS, by J.A. Barry
THE HOUSE OF ILL OMEN, by Rosa Praed
A THING OF WAX, by Morley Roberts
THE PROPHETIC HORROR OF THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, by James Edmund
THE PRECIPITOUS DETAILS OF THE HIGH MOUNTAIN AND THE THREE SKELETONS, by James Edmund
THE STRANGE CASE OF ALAN HERIOT, by Lionel Sparrow
THE BLANKET FIEND, by Beatrice Grimshaw
THE PHANTOM SHIP OF DIRK VAN TROMP, by James Francis Dwyer
THE DEVIL'S BALL, by Dulcie Deamer
THE PLEDGE, by Helen Simpson
THE WATCH, by Vernon Knowles
THE HOUSE THAT TOOK REVENGE, by Vernon Knowles
THE UNDYING ONE, by Roger Dard