Bibliograph

Hometown haunts, #LoveOzYA horror tales, edited by Poppy Nwosu

Type

Label

Hometown haunts, #LoveOzYA horror tales, edited by Poppy Nwosu

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Hometown haunts

Responsibility statement

edited by Poppy Nwosu

Sub title

#LoveOzYA horror tales

Summary

One bite of an apple from a family shrine unearths hungry ghosts. A poison garden unfurls a polite boy's deepest, darkest desires. Interfering with an Indigenous burial site unleashes ancestral revenge, to a metal soundtrack. An underground dance party during Covid threatens to turn lethal. And on the edge of a coastal rainforest, a grieving sister waits to witness a mysterious 'unravelling'. The stories in this wide-ranging collection dig deep and go hard. While some are straight-up terrifying rollercoaster rides, others are psychologically rooted in our society's deepest fears and concerns: acceptance and fitting in, love and loss, desire and temptation, and the terror of a world threatened by catastrophic change ... and even collapse. From body horror to the supernatural, hauntings to transformations, and the everyday evil of humans to menacing outside forces, Hometown Haunts will have you glued to your chair ... until you leap out of it!

Table Of Contents

The party / Wai Chim -- Seek and destroy / Jared Thomas -- It's quiet now / Emma Preston -- Heart-shaped stone / Vikki Wakefield -- Stop revive survive / Sarah Epstein -- Don't look! / Lisa Fuller -- Nature boy / Poppy Nwosu -- Slaughterhouse boys / Emma Osborne -- Euryhaline / Margot McGovern -- Hunger / Marianna Shek -- Do I see it all now? / Michelle O'Connell -- Angel eyes / Alison Evans -- Best years of your life / Felix Wilkins -- Rappaccini's son / Holden Sheppard

Target audience

adolescent

Classification