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In this nightmarish and surreal story, Rjurik Davidson’s first-person narrator is kept awake at night by the anguished cries and mysterious, noisy construction work of an upstairs neighbour.
Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2006 comprises twelve short stories and five essays of a diverse nature. The fiction ranges from unsettling to frightening, and from the humorous to sad, serving up encounters with zombies, killer glaciers, tortured inventors and samurai heroes among other subjects.