A collection of tales of the strange, the weird, and the frightening. Just the thing to read on a dark night when the lightning flashes, and the thunder crashes, and all the doors are locked.

A collection of short stories in the horror genre: some weird, some strange, some downright unbelievable, but all designed to make the reader think...and think again, then leave the bedside light burning through the night.

Two tales that will have the hairs on the back of your neck rising, and alter your conception of the decency of man as you know it.

Doctors have a unique view of the human body. Centuries of observing the sick and decades of testing these observations against science. A diagnosis starts with interrogation followed by observation, clinched by the appropriate test. Clinical skills are focused on patients, but friends and family are not exempt. The real test comes when the physician himself becomes acutely unwell without warning. This is a story of the continuing importance of clinical signs in the age of artificial intel...

In the early days of rail, a shack was built on railway property to house the bodies of those killed on or near the rail. It became known as the Death House.this collection of short stories features mysteries all connected to the death house in some eerie and evil way.

the greeks say if a body is left unguarded between death and burial it will rise to prey on its kin.charles comstock drowns off the island of Santorini, and is transported to sydney for burial, but he rises to kill his kin one by one - and all that stand between it and success are an old greek woman and a disbelieving young priest.

an old jewish man is murdered in 1800's sydney by a gang of thugs, and his wife, a witch, uses her familiar, a large dog, as a murder weapon to slaughter one by one the gang. blood runs free in the streets, and a journalist is left in the middle of a mystery he cannot unravel...

a family of five vampires are driven out of their lair in Eastern Europe and board ship for australia, the state of van diemen's land, where a new prison colony is being built.saul, the teenage vampire, falls in love and watches in horror as his new love turns from what she was into what she has become. one by one, they are killed off until only one remains. but which one is it?

Alan Carmody, a cattle breeder in South Africa, loses everything when an evil witchdoctor causes his negro hands to run off, after burning and looting his farm and killing his family. He kills the witchdoctor and emigrates to Australia, but the witchdoctor's spirit in the giuse of a cheetah, begins hunting down all with whom he comes into contact in this new country, until only Alan is left.

You have in your hands a collection of writings that has been nurtured in the greenhouses of two writing groups meeting in the Rivelin Valley over the last couple of years. Ordinary people foraging through their life experiences to uncover images, stories, poems and narratives and sharing them together in a spirit of appreciation and the desire to find their own voices.It is a joyous, emotional, challenging and ultimately uplifting evening for all involved and in that spirit the gr...

Australia's first 50 years was a time of harshness, brutality, and cruelty not often seen in the annals of our world. And these forms of treatment were not always committed by the prisoners.One man, sentenced to transportation for a crime we would regard, today, as minor, finds his life tormented by only the most vicious of treatment - yet, at the end, discovers that sometimes even one's most cruel of masters can be worth dying for.

Whether you are interested in having fun at home or planning a career in patisserie or confectionery, this book will inspire you with easy, low cost recipes that are of a professional standard. Baking & Desserts with The Gourmet Chef covers the role of a pastry chef and is written by an Executive Head Chef from his own repertoire. Scones, muffins, desserts, biscuits, artisan breads, sugar work and the Gourmet Chef's special tips. Ten high-profile chefs from around the world have contribute...