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'This paper surveys how Sam Watson has reworked the notion of a dead heart [of Australia] in his fantasy novel The Kadaitcha Sung, by populating the land with the spirits of murdered Indigenous people and also presenting the landscape, and particularly Uluru, as the sacred setting of power and restoration' (39).
This article takes the form of a symposium where Aboriginal authors and works in the genre of weird fiction are discussed. Critics Katrin Althans and Gerry Turcotte answer several questions posed by Studies in Australian Weird Fiction and provide fans of the genre with personal insights and interpretations never before discussed.