M'Kenzie's Ghost single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1883... 1883 M'Kenzie's Ghost
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While waiting to herd in cattle into a station under the light of the moon, one man asks the other to tell a story. The stockman Dan complies, describing the time he was told of a ghost hanging on a tree on moonlit nights and went to investigate. Seeing the figure hanging from the branch of a tree, he and his companion fled in fear. In the end, it turned out to be a dead kangaroo that someone had killed and hung from the tree. 

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser vol. 35 no. 1188 14 April 1883 21597602 1883 newspaper issue 1883 pg. 680
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon From Shadow Land and Other Ghost Stories St Lucia : Corella Press , 2021 23616762 2021 selected work short story

    'A spectre of a woman hides a dagger in her hair. But is she victim or villain?

    'A miser leaves his fortune to whoever can find it, but with his ghost lurking about, who has the courage to uncover it?

    'In the emptiness of the Australian bush, no one can hear you scream. So what happens when you come face to face with the ghost of a hanged man?

    'When shadows come alive and secrets thicken the air, who will remain sane long enough to solve these otherworldly mysteries? This triptych of haunting tales revives the work of forgotten nineteenth-century Australian writers: women whose lives remain as ghostly and mysterious as the stories themselves.

    'From the English manor to the Australian bush, the Gothic genre comes alive in this book to haunt the reader with its tales of love and tragedy, murder and prejudice, and terror and the supernatural, making it the perfect read for lovers of Australian and Gothic literature.'

    Source: Corella Press.

    St Lucia : Corella Press , 2021
    pg. 123-136
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