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The Bush Undertaker

Henry Lawson

First published 1978
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

In Australia, an eccentric shepherd "discovers the body of a man, parched by the intense Australian sun"; a friend of his.

First published in The Antipodean, 1892, under the title "Christmas in the Far West" or "The Bush Undertaker" Collected in While the Billy Boils, 1896, as "The Bush Undertaker" --Wikipedia

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1978 Australian Stories of Horror and Suspense from the Early Days Australasian Book Society Anthology 241
1983 Cover Australian Stories of Horror and Suspense from the Early Days Hale & Iremonger Anthology 241
July 2007 Cover The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction Melbourne University Press Anthology 139