It was fairly late afternoon when [they] sat in the lee of The Wall’s shadows, talking. They were out in the middle of nowhere, sucking on … stubbies of craft beer.
… from The Styx: Page 233, Rememory 113
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EVENT: Conversations on The Styx—modern Australian gothic novel—CQUniversity Bird Cage Bar, Rockhampton, Qld, book signing and reading: Wed Dec 6 from 12 noon.
CROCODILES, bull sharks and other Styx-like creatures surf the tidal bore but never at your command. They laugh if you try to organise your paltry life around theirs. Their lives dance to the harmony of the Goddess Invulnerable. They dance in gravitational attraction: they will dance at The Styx. Soon.
The Styx—a modern Australian gothic novel: published by Lacuna Publishing. Out now—ask at your favourite bookshop.Â
“I was studying, exams looming, so I was looking at my place (in rural NSW) on Google Satellite. I zoomed out, and saw an iridescent turquoise triangle on the coast way up north. A huge aquamarine turquoise triangle unlike anywhere else on the entire east coast of Australia. It glowed. It was The Styx.” Valerie Cameron.
Conversations about “The Styx”—modern Australian gothic fiction—with Patricia Holland at CQ University’s Bird Cage Bar at lunchtime, 12 noon, Wed Dec 6, 2017.