The Isles of the Sun single work   short story   fantasy   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Isles of the Sun
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    y separately published work icon Cracklescape Margo Lanagan , Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2012 Z1884106 2012 selected work short story fantasy horror A presence haunts an old dresser in an inner-city share house. Shining sun-people lure children from their carefree beachside lives. Sheela-na-gigs colonise a middle-aged man's outer and inner worlds. A girl with a heavy conscience seeks relief in exile on the Treeless Plain. These stories from four-time World Fantasy Award winner Margo Lanagan are all set in Australia, a myth-soaked landscape both stubbornly inscrutable and crisscrossed by interlopers' dreamings. Explore four littoral and liminal worlds, a-crackle with fears and possibilities. --Cover blurb. Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2012 pg. 25-43
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