ANGELA MEYER (ed) The Great Unknown. Reviewed by Kylie Mason
Melbourne-based writer and reviewer Angela Meyer has brought together some of Australia’s finest writers in this collection of eerie and mysterious stories. From things that go bump in the night via sci-fi medicine to menacing alphabets, The Great Unknown explores the ideas that make us check under the bed before retiring for the night – and perhaps consider leaving a light on, just in case.
LIZ JENSEN The Uninvited
Do we need to be afraid? Liz Jensen’s vision of the near future is terrifying. The Uninvited is a near-future dystopian novel that also taps into the category of ‘weird’ fiction some critics have recently noted in the contemporary English novel. Liz Jensen is...
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