Spine-Chilling: Ten Horror Stories

by Penny Matthews (Editor)

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Diverse collection of ten short stories for older children, which explores different varieties of horror - supernatural, twisted fantasy, simple plans that go wrong - all with an Australian flavour. Authors include Lucy Sussex, Alan Baillie, Victor Kelleher and Margaret Wild. Each story has an afterword in which the author describes their attitude to the horror genre and their inspiration for the story. The editor has also compiled a companion volume, 'Hair-raising'.

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Baillie, Allan (Contributor)
Disher, Garry (Contributor)
Hall, Penny (Contributor)
Kelleher, Victor (Contributor)
Lansdown, Andrew (Contributor)
Masson, Sophie (Contributor)
McEwin, Emma (Contributor)
Sussex, Lucy (Contributor)
Wild, Margaret (Contributor)

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Fiction and Literature
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823.08738089283Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fictionBy typeGenre fictionAdventure fictionHorror and ghost fictionHorror fictionAnthologiesCollections of literary texts in more than one form
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PZ5 .S7525Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres

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