Might pay to have a look at a bloke called Rhylle Wynn. He was a local here and wrote good, Aussie stories. A good one for kiddies would be "Behind the Bike Shed", but there are many more. They're not scary but, if you like humorous/sad stories from the bush, they're pretty good.
Sadly, R.M. Wynn died not that long ago, at a much too young age.
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Re: Idress, my Dad had about ten of Ion's books, all autographed and hard covered with some sort of cloth overlay. They have disappeared, over time. I remember reading "The Drums of Mer', as a little tacker and finding it interestingly gruesome, especially the description of the removal of heads from living warriors. the 'Dance of Death', from memory?
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