Back in the sixties, Australian TV audiences thrilled to the peculiar pleasures offered by 'the Master' in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and by Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery. British purveyor of all that was twisted and disturbing, Roald Dahl, delighted and horrified readers and viewers with his Tales of the Unexpected. In that tradition of the delicious frisson caused by tension and unease, Paul Collins brings you a collection of tales by Australian masters and mistresses of the bizarre, the unnerving, the outre.

Edited by Paul Collins

Contents:

• Martin Falvey by Thomas Shapcott
• Jade Elm by Jack Wodhams
• Poor Reception by Gary Disher
• Hurley’s Life of Samuel Johnson by Morris Lurie
• Roger by Richard Lunn
• Back of Beyond by Cherry Wilder
• The Arrows by Dorothy Porter
• The Fossil Evidence Re-Run by Michael Wilding
• Holding Hands by James McQueen
• The Cat by Nancy Cato
• Old Wood by Steven Paulsen
• Peeking by Robert Hood
• The Seas of Castle Hill Road by Rick Kennett
• A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow by Carmel Bird
• Skin Holes by Kaaron Warren
• The Lady with the Ermine by Lucy Sussex