Three Macabre Stories-Rosaleen Norton-1st Limited Ed., Signed & Inscribed, 1996

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First edition · Signed · Limited edition

Rosaleen Norton is now largely remembered as "the Witch of Kings Cross:" the Australian artist and occultist who gained notoriety during the 1950s and 1960s on account of her occult beliefs, unconventional lifestyle, and bizarre and often sensual artwork. A little-known sidelight to Norton's career was the publication by the popular magazine, Smith's Weekly, of three horror stories that she wrote while still in her teens. The magazine's editor, Frank Marien, was so impressed with these tales that he not only published them but also offered Norton a cadetship. The short stories first appeared in Smith's Weekly in 1934 and were later collected and published under the title Three Macabre Stories in an extremely limited letterpress edition in 1996.

• Publisher: Typographeum
• Year: 1996
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 0930126505

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