Ce site utilise des cookies pour fournir nos services, optimiser les performances, pour les analyses, et (si vous n'êtes pas connecté) pour les publicités. En utilisant Librarything, vous reconnaissez avoir lu et compris nos conditions générales d'utilisation et de services. Votre utilisation du site et de ses services vaut acceptation de ces conditions et termes.
Résultats trouvés sur Google Books
Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
Features murderous ghosts, horrific curses and monstrous beings that haunt an unforgiving landscape into which travellers stray at their peril. This title includes stories that takes you on a journey through the dark byways of Australia's Gothic past. It provides an introduction full of fresh insights into Australian Gothic fiction.… (plus d'informations)
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre
▾Discussions (À propos des liens)
Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.
▾Critiques des utilisateurs
I have always had an interest in reading traditional ghost stories but have not come across Australian ones before. It was therefore with a little trepidation that I began this collection. After all Australia is not generally known for the genre is it ? I need not have worried as this is as good a selection of ghosts and spirits that you could find anywhere. Each story is headed by a short biography of the author,and as most of them were previously unknown to me,this was extremely useful. As to the stories themselves - the first one 'The White Maniac : A Doctor's Tale' by Mary Fortune is the best. Of the rest,there are only a couple that I thought less than good,'The Cave of the Invisible' is confused and doesn't really get anywhere. The other is 'Hallowe'en - a standard werewolf tale. The remaining fourteen stories are all well worth reading,but I would urge you to try 'The Mystery of Major Molineux' by Marcus Clarke,which is told extremely well,albeit with a slightly disappointing ending (what is the strange transformation of the Major which drives those who witness it to madness and death?) 'The Bunyip' by Rosa Campbell Praed and 'The Accurses Thing' by Edward Dyson. In short,this is a marvelous collection of unusual ghost stories which deserves to be better known. ( )
Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes.
Wikipédia en anglais
Aucun
▾Descriptions de livres
Features murderous ghosts, horrific curses and monstrous beings that haunt an unforgiving landscape into which travellers stray at their peril. This title includes stories that takes you on a journey through the dark byways of Australia's Gothic past. It provides an introduction full of fresh insights into Australian Gothic fiction.
▾Descriptions provenant de bibliothèques
Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque
▾Description selon les utilisateurs de LibraryThing
I need not have worried as this is as good a selection of ghosts and spirits that you could find anywhere. Each story is headed by a short biography of the author,and as most of them were previously unknown to me,this was extremely useful.
As to the stories themselves - the first one 'The White Maniac : A Doctor's Tale' by Mary Fortune is the best. Of the rest,there are only a couple that I thought less than good,'The Cave of the Invisible' is confused and doesn't really get anywhere. The other is 'Hallowe'en - a standard werewolf tale. The remaining fourteen stories are all well worth reading,but I would urge you to try 'The Mystery of Major Molineux' by Marcus Clarke,which is told extremely well,albeit with a slightly disappointing ending (what is the strange transformation of the Major which drives those who witness it to madness and death?) 'The Bunyip' by Rosa Campbell Praed and 'The Accurses Thing' by Edward Dyson.
In short,this is a marvelous collection of unusual ghost stories which deserves to be better known. ( )