The Weird and the Wonderful CLXXIII: Dead Men's Tales by Charles Junor

Today's book is the only book American-Australian Journalist Charles Junor published during his lifetime.

His 1898 "Dead Men's Tales" concerns stories of leprosy, cannibalism, drunkenness, a brain reading apparatus, shared dreams and the classic tale of being burried alive being turned on it's head.


Some of the information on Junor is courtesy of richardneylon.com and The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction.

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