James Doig and the Australian Weird

Over the last decade and a half, James Doig has quietly shown himself to be the premiere authority on classical Australian weird fiction and fantasy. I've enjoyed his anthologies, and the single-author collection by Ernest Ferenc (whose work also appears in multiple anthologies), not to mention Doig's own excellent fiction (ten stories) in the Sarob Press volume Friends of the Dead (2015).

Last summer I learned of a new (to me) anthology from 2019, and after acquiring it I made for my own reference a table of contents to the five anthologies (plus the Ferenc collection), so I could more easily recall which stories appeared in which book. I thought I'd share with Wormwoodiana my contents listing and title index. 

At least one book (Australian Nightmares, 2008) is currently unavailable, and the listing for the others oddly do not come up at Amazon.com via a search by Doig's name (though they do at Amazon.co.uk). Yet the Amazon.com links do come up if you search via bookfinder.com. I have no idea why. 

Books:

Australian Gothic: An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction, ed. James Doig
    Mandurah, W.A.:  Equilibrium Books, 2007
    [n.p.]: Borgo Press, 2013
    [Contains: “Introduction”;  “The Spirit of the Tower” by Mary Fortune;  “Little Luiz” by B.L. Farjeon; “The House by the River” by G.A. Walstab; “The Ghost from the Sea” by J.E.O. Muddock; “Spirit-Led”, “A Haunt of the Jinkarras” and “The Boundary Rider’s Story” by Ernest Favenc; “Cannabis Indica” by Marcus Clarke; “Norah and the Fairies” by Hume Nisbet; “The Ghost-Monk” by Rosa Praed; “Lupton’s Guest: A Memory of the Eastern Pacific” by Louis Becke; “A Colonial Banshee” by Fergus Hume; “A Strange Experience” by A.F. Bassett Hull; “A Bushman’s Story” by Frances Faucett; “The Death Child” by Guy Boothby; “The Jewelled Hand” and “The Vengeance of the Dead” by Lionel Sparrow; “The Cave” and “The Forest of Lost Men” by Beatrice Grimshaw;  “The Cave of the Invisible” by James Francis Dwyer; “Where the Butterflies Come From” by William Hay; “The Vampire” by W.W. Lamble; “Hallowe’en” by Dulcie Deamer.]   

Australian Nightmares: More Australian Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, ed. James Doig
    Mandurah, W.A.:  Equilibrium Books, 2008
    [Contains: “Introduction”;  “Acknowledgements”; “The White Maniac: A Doctor’s Tale” by Mary Fortune; “The Silent Sepulchre” by Charles Junor; “What the Rats Brought” and “On the Island of Shadows” by Ernest Favenc; “The Odic Touch” by Hume Nesbit; “Told in the ‘Corona’s’ Cabin. On Three Evenings” by J.A. Barry; “The House of Ill Omen” by Rosa Praed; “A Thing of Wax” by Morley Roberts; “The Prophetic Horror of the Great Experiment” and “The Precipitous Details of the High Mountain and the Three Skeletons” by James Edmund; “The Strange Case of Alan Heriot” by Lionel Sparrow; “The Blanket Fiend” by Beatrice Grimshaw; “The Phantom Ship of Dirk Van Tromp” by James Francis Dwyer; “The Pledge” by Helen Simpson; “The Watch” and “The House That Took Revenge” by Vernon Knowles; “The Story of the Waxworks” by Rosaleen Norton; “The Undying One” by Roger Dard.] 

Australian Ghost Stories, ed. James Doig
    Ware, Hertfordshire:  Wordsworth Editions, 2010
    [Contains:  “Introduction”; “The White Maniac:  A Doctor’s Tale” by Mary Fortune;  “Spirit-Led” by Ernest Favenc; “A Haunt of the Jinkarras” by Ernest Favenc;  “The Mystery of Major Molineaux” by Marcus Clarke;  “The Bunyip” by Rosa Campbell Praed; “Lupton’s Guest: A Memory of the Eastern Pacific” by Louis Becke;  “The Haunted Pool: A Tale of the Blue Mountains” by Edward Wheatley;  “A Colonial Banshee” by Fergus Hume;  “The Devil of the Marsh” by H.B. Marriott Watson;  “The Accursed Thing” by Edward Dyson;  “The Third Murder: A New South Wales Tale” by Henry Lawson;  “The Death Child” by Guy Boothby;  “A Strange Goldfield” by Guy Boothby;  “Sea Voices” by Roderic Quinn;  “The Cave” by Beatrice Grimshaw;  “The Cave of the Invisible” by James Francis Dwyer;  “Hallowe’en” by Dulcie Deamer.]

Australian Hauntings: Colonial Supernatural Fiction, ed. James Doig
    Mandurah, W.A.:  Equilibrium Books, 2011
    [n.p.]: Borgo Press, 2013
    [Contains:  “Acknowledgements”; “Introduction”; “Jerry Boake’s Confession” by Ernest Favenc; “The Track of the Dead” by Ernest Favenc; “Blood for Blood” by Ernest Favenc; “In the Night” by Ernest Favenc; “A Strange Occurrence on Huckey’s Creek” by Ernest Favenc;  “The Wraith of Tom Imrie”by William Sylvester Walker; “Hulk No. 49” by J.A. Barry; “Miss Crosson’s Familiar” by Rosa Praed; “The Ghost of Brigalow Bend” by “Wanderer”; “The Spectre of the Black Swamp: An Overlander’s Story” by Edwin M. Merrall; “Chronicles of Easyville” by Patrick Shanahan; “Point Despair” by H.B. Marriott Watson; “A New Species” by Robert Coutts Armour; “De Profundus” by Robert Coutts Armour; “The Story of the Stain” by Sophie Osmond; “The Sorcerer of Arjuzanx” by Max Rittenberg; “The Queer Case of Christine Madrigal” by A. E. Martin, “The Hollmsdale Horror” by A. E. Martin; “The Pythoness” by Helen Simpson; “The Evil That Men Do” by Patience Tillyard.] 

 

Ghost and Mystery Stories, by Ernest Favenc, ed. by James Doig
    [n.p.]: Borgo Press, 2013
    [Contains: “Introduction”;  “My Story”; “The Lady Ermetta; or, The Sleeping Secret”; “The Medium”; “The Dead Hand”; “Jerry Boake's Confession”; “A Haunt of the Jinkarras”; “The Last of Six”; “The Spell of the Mas-hantoo”; “Spirit-led”; “The Ghost's Victory”; “Malchook's Doom”; “The Red Lagoon”; “The Track of the Dead”; “Blood for Blood”; “In the Night”; “The Ghostly Bullock-bell”; “My Only Murder”; “An Unquiet Spirit”; “The Boundary Rider's Story”; “A Strange Occurrence on Huckey's Creek”; “The Unholy Experiment of Martin Shenwick, and What Came of It”; “Doomed”; “The Mount of Misfortune”; “The Blood-debt”; “On the Island of Shadows”; “The Haunted Steamer”; “The Girl Body-stealer”; “M'Whirter's Wraith”; “The Land of the Unseen”; “What the Rats Brought”; “The Kaditcha: A Tale of the Northern Territory”; “Bibliography”.]

Beyond the Orbit: Australian Science Fiction to 1935, ed. by James Doig
    [n.p.]: Wildside Press, 2019
    [Contains:  “Introduction”; “What the Rats Brought” by Ernest Favenc; “The Land of the Unseen” by Ernest Favenc; “The Instrument” by H.B. Marriott Watson; “Lost Wings” by Beatrice Grimshaw; “The Social Code” by Erle Cox; “Beyond the Orbit” by Robert Coutts Armour; “Take It as Red” by Robert Coutts Armour; “After 1 Million Years” by J.M. Walsh; “The Gland Men of the Island” by Max Afford; “The Inner Domain” by Phil Collas; “The Bluff of the Hawk” by Desmond Hall and Harry Bates; “The Reign of the Reptiles” by Alan Connell; “Dream's End” by Alan Connell.]

    

Contents, alphabetically by author:

Max Afford
“The Gland Men of the Island”
    Beyond the Orbit (2019)

Robert Coutts Armour
“Beyond the Orbit”
    Beyond the Orbit (2019)
“De Profundus”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)
“A New Species”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)
“Take It as Red”
    Beyond the Orbit (2019) 

J.A. Barry
“Hulk No. 49”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)
“Told in the ‘Corona’s’ Cabin. On Three Evenings”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)

Louis Becke
“Lupton’s Guest: A Memory of the Eastern Pacific”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)

Guy Boothby
“The Death Child”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)
“A Strange Goldfield”
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)

Marcus Clarke
“Cannabis Indica”
    Australian Gothic (2007)

Phil Collas
“The Inner Domain”
    Beyond the Orbit (2019)

Alan Connell
“Dream's End”  
    Beyond the Orbit (2019)
“The Reign of the Reptiles”
    Beyond the Orbit (2019)

Erle Cox
“The Social Code”
    Beyond the Orbit (2019)

Roger Dard
“The Undying One”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)

Dulcie Deamer    
“Hallowe’en”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)

James Francis Dwyer
“The Cave of the Invisible”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)
“The Phantom Ship of Dirk Van Tromp”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)

Edward Dyson
“The Accursed Thing”
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)

James Edmund
“The Prophetic Horror of the Great Experiment”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)
“The Precipitous Details of the High Mountain and the Three Skeletons”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)

B.L. Farjeon
“Little Luiz”
    Australian Gothic (2007)

Frances Faucett
“A Bushman’s Story”
    Australian Gothic (2007)

Ernest Favenc
“Blood for Blood”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Blood-debt”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Boundary Rider’s Story”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Dead Hand”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Ghost's Victory”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Ghostly Bullock-bell”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Girl Body-stealer”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“Doomed”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“A Haunt of the Jinkarras”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Haunted Steamer”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“In the Night”
    Australian Hauntings (2011)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“Jerry Boake’s Confession”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Kaditcha: A Tale of the Northern Territory”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Lady Ermetta; or, The Sleeping Secret”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Land of the Unseen” Beyond the Orbit (2019)  
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Last of Six”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“M'Whirter's Wraith”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“Malchook's Doom”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Medium”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Mount of Misfortune”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“My Only Murder”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“My Story”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“On the Island of Shadows”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Red Lagoon”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Spell of the Mas-hantoo”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“Spirit-Led”
    Australian Gothic  (2007)
    Australian Ghost Stories  (2010)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
 “A Strange Occurrence on Huckey’s Creek”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Track of the Dead”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“The Unholy Experiment of Martin Shenwick, and What Came of It”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“An Unquiet Spirit”
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)
“What the Rats Brought”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)
    Beyond the Orbit (2019)
    Favenc, Ghost and Mystery Stories (2013)

Mary Fortune
“The Spirit of the Tower”
    Australian Gothic  (2007)
“The White Maniac: A Doctor’s Tale”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)
    Australian Ghost Stories  (2010)

Beatrice Grimshaw  
“The Blanket Fiend”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)
“The Cave”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)
“The Forest of Lost Men”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
“Lost Wings”  
    Beyond the Orbit (2019) 

Desmond Hall and Harry Bates
“The Bluff of the Hawk”
    Beyond the Orbit (2019)

William Hay
“Where the Butterflies Come From”
    Australian Gothic (2007)

A.F. Bassett Hull  
“A Strange Experience”
    Australian Gothic (2007)

Fergus Hume
“A Colonial Banshee”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)

Charles Junor
“The Silent Sepulchre”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)

Vernon Knowles
“The Watch”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)
“The House That Took Revenge”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)

W.W. Lamble
“The Vampire”
    Australian Gothic (2007)

Henry Lawson
“The Third Murder: A New South Wales Tale”
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)

A.E. Martin
“The Queer Case of Christine Madrigal”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)
“The Hollmsdale Horror”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

Edwin M. Merrall
“The Spectre of the Black Swamp: An Overlander’s Story”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

J.E.O. Muddock
“The Ghost from the Sea”
    Australian Gothic (2007)

Hume Nisbet
“Norah and the Fairies”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
“The Odic Touch”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)

Rosaleen Norton
“The Story of the Waxworks”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)

Sophie Osmond
“The Story of the Stain”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

Rosa Campbell Praed
“The Bunyip”
     Australian Ghost Stories (2010)
“The Ghost-Monk”
    Australian Gothic (2007)
“The House of Ill Omen”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)
“Miss Crosson’s Familiar”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

Roderic Quinn
“Sea Voices”
    Australian Ghost Stories  (2010)

Max Rittenberg
“The Sorcerer of Arjuzanx”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

Morley Roberts
“A Thing of Wax”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)

Patrick Shanahan
“Chronicles of Easyville”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

Helen Simpson
“The Pledge”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)
“The Pythoness”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

Lionel Sparrow
“The Jewelled Hand”
    Australian Gothic  (2007)
“The Strange Case of Alan Heriot”
    Australian Nightmares (2008)
“The Vengeance of the Dead”
    Australian Gothic  (2007)

Patience Tillyard
“The Evil That Men Do”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

William Sylvester Walker
“The Wrait of Tom Imrie”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

J.M. Walsh
“After 1 Million Years”
    Beyond the Orbit (2019) 

G.A. Walstab
“The House by the River”
    Australian Gothic (2007)

“Wanderer”
“The Ghost of Brigalow Bend”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

H.B. Marriott Watson
“The Devil of the Marsh”  
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)
“The Instrument”  
    Beyond the Orbit (2019) 
“Point Despair”  
    Australian Hauntings (2011)

Edward Wheatley
“The Haunted Pool: A Tale of the Blue Mountains”
    Australian Ghost Stories (2010)