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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Dead Path
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'After his wife's sudden death, Nicholas leaves the life he had in London and returns home to Australia. He knows something is very wrong and feels he is teetering on the brink of madness. But the truth is much, much more sinister and dates back to his childhood: when Nicholas was ten years old he found a strange talisman near the woods close to his home. He didn't touch it but felt its menacing power and ran. Later, he told his best friend, Tristram, about it. They returned to the woods together to seek it out and Tristram picked it up. That same day Tristram was murdered. There is something lurking in the woods that knows Nicholas is back...it has been waiting. Because the wrong boy died. On the night Nicholas returns home another boy goes missing and when his body is found it is clear that his murder is chillingly similar to Tristram's. Forced to uncover long-buried secrets Nicholas finds himself and those he loves in great danger. And he realises that he is linked to a hideous and enchanting nemesis who will stop at nothing to get what she needs.' Source: www.hachette.com.au/ (Sighted 13/07/2009).

Notes

  • Dedication: For Ross

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2009 .
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      Extent: 396p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: July 2009
      ISBN: 9780733623745 (pbk.)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Anchor ,
      2012 .
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      Extent: 376p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 6th 2012
      ISBN: 9780307739568
Alternative title: 死亡森林
Transliterated title: Si wang sen lin
Language: Chinese
    • Beijing,
      c
      China,
      c
      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
      :
      Zhong Xin Chu Ban She ,
      2010 .
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      Extent: 418p.
      ISBN: 9787508620701

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  • Large print.
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Works about this Work

There Really Must be a Murder Stephen M. Irwin , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Writing Queensland , May no. 229 2013; (p. 5)
Writer's Spooky Coincidence Geoff Shearer , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 1 November 2012; (p. 16)
The Australian Horror Novel Since 1950 James Doig , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 112-127)
According to James Doig the horror genre 'was overlooked by the popular circulating libraries in Australia.' In this chapter he observes that this 'marginalization of horror reflects both the trepidation felt by the conservative library system towards 'penny dreadfuls,' and the fact that horror had limited popular appeal with the British (and Australian) reading public.' Doig concludes that there is 'no Australian author of horror novels with the same commercial cachet' as authors of fantasy or science fiction. He proposes that if Australian horror fiction wants to compete successfully 'in the long-term it needs to develop a flourishing and vibrant small press contingent prepared to nurture new talent' like the USA and UK small presses.' (Editor's foreword xii)
[Review] The Dead Path Keith Stevenson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction , no. 44 2010; (p. 136-137)

— Review of The Dead Path Stephen M. Irwin , 2009 single work novel
Tight Trope Walking Stephen M. Irwin , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Writing Queensland , April no. 195 2010; (p. 5)
Books Ian Nichols , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 22 August 2009; (p. 20)

— Review of The Dead Path Stephen M. Irwin , 2009 single work novel ; Birdsville Evan McHugh , 2009 single work autobiography
Evil Lurks down Mysterious Pathways Colin Steele , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 August 2009; (p. 12)

— Review of The Dead Path Stephen M. Irwin , 2009 single work novel
[Review] The Dead Path Keith Stevenson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction , no. 44 2010; (p. 136-137)

— Review of The Dead Path Stephen M. Irwin , 2009 single work novel
Twists That Thrill Ben Harvy , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 August 2009; (p. 28)
Irwin's Long Path to Ghostly Chiller Madeline Healy , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 August 2009; (p. 30)
Profile : Stephen M. Irwin 2009-2010 single work interview
— Appears in: Writing Queensland , December- January no. 191 2009-2010; (p. 4)
Walking the Dead Path with Stephen M Irwin Astrid Cooper (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: The Specusphere , September no. 10 2009;
Tight Trope Walking Stephen M. Irwin , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Writing Queensland , April no. 195 2010; (p. 5)
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