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Synopsis
Studies in Australian Weird Fiction (SiAWF) aims to deliver an academic forum where Australian authors from all eras are to be studied. Themes, topics, issues and single-focus essays will be accompanied by interviews, symposiums and notes of interest.

Award-winning author Robert Hood will have a column in each volume called The Ossuary.

SiAWF studies the works of Australian authors - novel, short story and poetry - in the context of the "weird tale". As discussed in the landmark volume The Weird Tale (1990), critic S. T. Joshi states that the "weird tale" exists as "the consequences of a world view... in accordance with [the authors'] philosophical predispositions... [and] their metaphysical, ethical, and aesthetic theories" and spotlights the genres of dark fantasy, supernatural horror, non supernatural horror, and quasi-science fiction.

Cover artwork © 2009 Michael Steele.

For a detailed list of the contents of each volume, please visit the official SiAWF Web Site.

About The Editor
Benjamin Szumskyj is a qualified teacher (Bachelor of Arts in Education / Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, minor in English) and currently teaches at a private Christian high school. He has also achieved a Graduate Diploma in Christian Studies from Tabor Bible College and a Diploma in Library and Information Studies from Perth Central TAFE.

The editor-in-chief of Studies in Fantasy Literature, he has also written dozens of essays and articles on literary criticism for several magazines and journals such as Notes in Contemporary Literature, Wormwood: Writings about Fantasy, Supernatural and Decadent Literature and Star*Line: Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association as well as editing books on critical studies such as Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard (Hippocampus Press, 2006), Fritz Leiber: Critical Essays (McFarland Press, 2007), Dissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris (McFarland Press, 2008) and American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty (McFarland Press, 2008).