Fantasy, Faeries and Ghosts by George MacDonald, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe]

In this collection three of the original titans in the field of fantasy literature (Edgar Allan Poe, George MacDonald, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu) take you on a magical guided tour of fairyland and adjoining countries and introduce you to whimsical, strange and even scary encounters and adventures with inhabitants such as good and bad fairies, ghosts and even the Devil. The stories included are “Cross Purposes” “The Carasoyn” “Bon-Bon” “The Child That Went With The Fairies” “Madam Crowl’s Ghost” and as an added bonus the beautiful (and cautionary) fairy poem “Queen Mab” by Thomas Hood.

Read by Sandra Cullum.

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Fantasy, Faeries and Ghosts by George MacDonald, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe]

The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk [by Mary Grant Bruce]

Mary Grant Bruce (1878 - 1958) was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria which is thought had a dense population of the early Australians. Sadly, now there are no tribal people living, though their descendants are still around. This book contains 13 stories of the Gunaikurnai people, as told by their elders to the author. From the preface:


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The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk [by Mary Grant Bruce]