Terror Australis

“How chilly the night vapours were which rose from this large pool, for it was more like the moat from some ancient ruin than an ordinary Australian water-hole. How ominous the shadows that gathered over this dwelling, and which even the great and lustrous moon, now clear of the gable end, seemed unable to dissipate.”
The Australian landscape is one that lends itself to the uncanny: the oppressively hot, fly-infested bush, populated with abandoned