Category: Features

Ghost-hunting in Australia (aka There’s Something Behind Me, Isn’t There?) Part Two

  • July 10, 2013

  • 13 mins to read
Australian morgue

Last month we began this outline of a weekend full of paranormal investigations at the abandoned Aradale Lunatic Asylum here in southern Australia. This column continues where the last left off… and moves right into the good part. Well, the more intense and interesting part, anyway. Previously: From Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May, …

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After Fight Club, Part II

  • July 10, 2013

  • 11 mins to read
Brad Pitt Fight Club body shot

Each of the books discussed here features people with similar quirks: there are tortured artists (Diary, Haunted), attention-seekers (Choke, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor), experts in the many and varied uses of narcotics (Choke, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby – well, all of them, really). There are therapy junkies, sex addicts, fraudsters, trailer trash, delusionals, sacrificial women, …

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Real writers don’t write about the supernatural

  • July 3, 2013

  • 9 mins to read
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

This month’s column topic readily sprang to mind as soon as I heard about it: one of my online author friends (who shall remain nameless) had received an email from some wag who said “I’ve never read your work and I never shall, because you are not a real writer. Real writers don’t write about …

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Reflections of Rebecca

  • June 28, 2013

  • 1 min to read

The intention of this column has always been to recall the lost or forgotten voices of horror, to remember those writers who, for whatever reason, have become forgotten or overlooked with the passing of time. But what I want to consider this month are the characters who are overlooked or forgotten within their texts, marginalised …

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