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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Finishing School
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'A 20-year-old vampire [is] sent to a German girls finishing school where initiation is a Harkering and Trad Vamp describes the classes and décor' (Jason Nahrung, 'Vampires in the Sunburnt Country,' 2007, p.54).

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    y separately published work icon Gathering the Bones : Thirty-Four Original Stories From the World's Masters of Horror Jack Dann (editor), Ramsay Campbell (editor), Dennis Etchison (editor), Pymble : Voyager , 2003 Z1019420 2003 anthology short story horror

    A collection of horror stories by writers from Australia, the United Kingdom and North America. Australian writers included are Russell Blackford, Simon Brown, Isobelle Carmody, Stephen Dedman, Sara Douglass, Terry Dowling, Chris Lawson, Rosaleen Love, Mike O'Driscoll, Aaron Sterns, Janeen Webb and Cherry Wilder.

    The editors state their intention in commissioning the anthology as being 'to present the familiar and the experimental, the traditional and the avant-garde, the quiet and the vividly shocking, in a field whose boundaries are no longer rigidly defined and where literary values coexist with the leading edge of popular culture' (p.xi).

         Gathering the Bones : New Stories From the World's Masters of Horror     Pymble : Voyager , 2003     pg. 281-291
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