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The Grief Hole – A Book-Review
CONTAINS SPOILERS There are many grief holes. There’s the grief hole you fall into when a loved one dies. There’s another grief hole in all of us; small or large, it determines how much we want to live. And there … Continue reading
Movie Review: “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
by Leonora Rexhi The Australian movie, ”Picnic at Hanging Rock”, is based on the novel under the same name, which was written by Joan Lindsay. The film was released in 1975. 1900, Appleyard College, Victoria, Australia. On Valentine’s Day, the … Continue reading
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Elements of Time in Joan Lindsay’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
this blogpost includes spoilers of the novel and its adaptations An uncanny premise Joan Lindsay’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1967) is a pseudo-historical Gothic Horror novel which was followed by its famous movie adaptation “The Day of Saint Valentine” in … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Speculative Fiction, Environmental Horror, Gothic & Horror, Gothic Horror, historical fiction, Joan Lindsay, Mystery Fiction, Outback, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Speculative Australia
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The Genres of Speculative Fiction – An Overview
by Nadja Marek, Renee Czyganowski, Danny Tran, and Ann-Sophie Ludwig Speculative fiction is an umbrella term that contains many different genres. Generally speaking, it deals with topics such as nature (or the supernatural) and alternate realities, either in the past … Continue reading
Cargo (2017): Australian Horror and Aboriginal Culture
by Robin Burger Cargo is a 2017 Australian Netflix original horror film based on a 2013 short film of the same name. However, it is debatable whether it really can be described as horror since while it is certainly a … Continue reading
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Tagged Aboriginal representation, Australian movies, Australian Speculative Fiction, Cargo, Gothic & Horror, Horror, Speculative Australia, zombie
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Solutions to the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock in the “lost” chapter 18
Picnic at Hanging Rock describes an unsolved mystery that people have been fascinated by since it was published. In the author’s note at the beginning of the novel Joan Lindsay claims “Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, … Continue reading