Terror Australis
€14.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780712369619 |
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| Authors | Ernest Favenc, Marcus Clarke, Mary Fortune, Sophie Osmond |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Publishing Date | 22/10/2026 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €14.06 |
| Tax | €0.84 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €14.90 |
| Availability | +20 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Bunyips, boundary riders and bush-lurkers: just some of the horrors that populate these tales of the Antipodean uncanny. The Australian weird tradition may be a short one, but it’s as varied and rich as anything you’ll find in the Old World. Many of these tales – from the likes of Marcus Clarke, Sophie Osmond, Ernest Favenc and Mary Fortune – are written by strangers in a new land. Traditional European elements of the weird tale appear in new forms or are moulded afresh to a harsh new environment – the haunted house is no longer a rambling manor, but an abandoned shanty or rundown homestead; the ancient wood, the lair of evils and creatures from folklore, becomes the oppressively hot, fly-infested bush; and the windswept moor is the empty, endless Australian outback with its blood-read sands and emaciated myall trees. The anthology also includes Aboriginal voices, providing a very different take on the landscape and its horrors.