| ISBN |
9781743058640 (paperback) |
| Title |
Hometown haunts : #LoveOzYA horror tales / edited by Poppy Nwosu. |
| Published |
Kent Town, SA : Wakefield Press, 2021. |
| ©2021 |
| Description |
244 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes 2 stories in comic strip form. |
| Contributors: Wai Chim, Sarah Epstein, Alison Evans, Lisa Fuller, Margot McGovern, Poppy Nwosu, Michelle O'Connell, Emma Osborne, Emma Preston, Marianna Shek, Holden Sheppard, Jared Thomas, Vikki Wakefield and Felix Wilkins. |
| Summary |
One bite of an apple from a family shrine unearths hungry ghosts. A poison garden unfurls a polite boy's deepest, darkest desires. Interfering with an Indigenous burial site unleashes ancestral revenge, to a metal soundtrack. An underground dance party during Covid threatens to turn lethal. And on the edge of a coastal rainforest, a grieving sister waits to witness a mysterious 'unravelling'. The stories in this wide-ranging collection dig deep and go hard. While some are straight-up terrifying rollercoaster rides, others are psychologically rooted in our society's deepest fears and concerns: acceptance and fitting in, love and loss, desire and temptation, and the terror of a world threatened by catastrophic change ... and even collapse. From body horror to the supernatural, hauntings to transformations, and the everyday evil of humans to menacing outside forces, Hometown Haunts will have you glued to your chair ... until you leap out of it! |
| Target audience note |
16+ years old. |
| Subjects |
Ghost stories |
| Fantasy fiction, Australian |
| Horror tales, Australian |
| Youth fiction |
| Genre |
Horror fiction |
| Short stories |
| Fantasy fiction |
| Other Names |
Nwosu, Poppy editor. |
| Series |
#LoveOzYA horror tales 01. |
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