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y separately published work icon Perturbed Spirits anthology   short story   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 1954... 1954 Perturbed Spirits
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Contents

* Contents derived from the London,
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Arthur Barker , 1954 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Devil of the Marsh, H. B. Marriott Watson , single work short story horror
A nightmarish vision of possession and sorcery.
(p. 183-188)
The Haunted Station, Hume Nisbet , single work short story horror mystery

"The narrator of his ghost story, a medical practitioner, becomes a convict after he is wrongly accused of his wife’s murder and transported to the Australian colonies to work in Fremantle building roads. After landing in Australia he seeks his liberty by fleeing into the bush with two fellow convicts. Taking advantage of the capture and shooting of his accomplices, the narrator makes his escape into the wilderness—travelling to a “far off and as yet unnamed portion of Western Australia” (Nisbet 116). Wandering delirious in a hostile environment, Nisbet’s narrator, who is “expectant of something ghoulish and unnatural” to come upon him from “the sepulchral gloom and mystery” (110), suddenly comes upon “a house of two storeys”.

Source: "National Hauntings: The Architecture of Australian Ghost Stories" by David Crouch. 

(p. 233-254)
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