Mirrordanse Books


 Intimate Armageddons
Bill Congreve, Ed.

A New Anthology of Modern Australian Horror Stories

  • Bones that walk...

  • The thing that hunts the Nullabor...
  • The butcher in the spare parts trade...
  • Finding a mangled corpse and a dead wolf in a Perth suburb doesn't mean there's a pack of werewolves nearby...does it?
  • A French archeaologist and his guide find their fate in the middle of a timeless desert
  • The horror writer who visits a local park at night...

If it can be imagined in the hearts and minds of humankind, then it is happening now...in the dark where no one can see...to someone, somewhere in Australia

You can party for as long as you like, but nobody gets out alive!

ISBN 0 9586583 0 7, 144 pages, trade paperback.
$11.95 (Aust) $15.75 (Cnd)
Bonescribes
Bill Congreve and Robert Hood, Ed.

Year's Best Australian Horror: 1995

Are we mad? Brave? Do we have more money than commonsense? (Which would imply very little of either!) Well, we do like good horror and 1995 was the third year in a row for Australian horror, with no sign that the pace will flag. You'll find the traditional, the street-smart, the quirky, the amusing, and the downright horrible. You'll find the very best horror stories published by Australians in 1995

"Bonescribes is one of the most important books of the year, as substantial and penetrating as it is confronting"
- Sydney Morning Herald

"Finally, the anthology Australian horror writers have been waiting for is here...Aonther must-have from Mirrordanse...Highly recommended."
- Steve Proposch, editor of Bloodsongs

ISBN 1 9586583 5 8, trade pb. 148 pages.
$12.95 (Aust) $16.25 (Cdn)

Borderline
Leanne Frahm

A collection of imaginative tales by one of Australia's leading writers of the fantastic including the never-before-published novella Borderline

  • John Humphries must rebuild his resort on the last unpolluted beach on Earth every year

  • Delicatessan owner Mr. Olivetto finds the ultimate food in his basement
  • Humanity investigates the hermaphrodite inhabitants of Lamadium for the first time
  • A thing from another dimension appears on old-timer Jack's doorstep
  • Saph and Reg wait impatiently for the tide to turn


From these simple beginnings Leanne Frahm takes the reader on five thought provoking and entertaining journeys into the strange realms of her imagination.

"...an extremely talented and intelligent writer..." - Van Ikin, Sydney Morning Herald

"...a surehanded and gifted storyteller. Leanne Frahm is one of the very best we have." - Terry Dowling

ISBN 0 9586583 0 7, 128 pages, trade paperback.
$11.95 (Aust) $15.75 (Cnd)
Crosstown Traffic
Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden & Robert Hood, Eds.

What do you get when you cross crime with Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, The Western and Romance?

Contains strong cross-genre stories, often experimental, by some of Australia's leading crime, SF, Fantasy and Horror writers. Very readable, varied and adventurous.

"Crosstown Traffic is a worthy anthology...a solid collection of unusual tales which I highly recommend, if only to encourage such commercial foolhardiness in the usually fainthearted and conservative publishers. If you see it, buy it."
- Martin Livings, Eidolon Magazine

"The devilishly busy team from Mean Streats has done it again, this time with a clever idea that is somewhere west of left field...."
- Australian Book Review

"...an excellent cross-over anthology covering all genres..."
- Ellen Datlow, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

ISBN 1 875604 15 4, trade pb. 229 pages.
$14.95 (Aust) $19.00 (Cdn)
Day-dreaming on Company Time
Robert Hood

"This is Roald Dahl country, twelve short stories well-written, with fine dialogue and closely observed scene-sets. Most of the stories take their shape from a character or narrator with visionary characteristics...several stories of the intensity of Juggernaut are classic exercises in suspense. The quality of the writing is evident throughout..."
Thea Astley,

The title story from this collection has been made into a film by Ian Watson and the School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong

ISBN 0 9587972 2 6, trade pb. 96 pages.
$10.95 (Aust) $14.50 (Cdn)

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