''The Black Crusade'' is a 2004
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novel by
Richard Harland
Richard Harland (born 15 January 1947 in Yorkshire) is an English fantasy and science fiction writer, living in New South Wales, Australia. He was born in 1947 in Huddersfield, United Kingdom and migrated to Australia in 1970. He has been an aca ...
. It is a prequel to Harland's earlier novel ''
The Vicar of Morbing Vyle''. It describes the journey of the hapless Basil Smorta, a multilingual bank clerk, who is forced into the company of a group of "fundamental Darwinists" by their imprisonment of the object of his undying love, Australian singer, Volusia, in a mobile iron box. The group travel across
Eastern Europe
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during 1894, and encounter ghosts, blood donating vampires and other comic horror curiosities.
[(2005-03-01). "Doctor's fantasy a winner". '' Illawarra Mercury''. IQ Section. Page 37.]
Background
''The Black Crusade'' was first published in Australia in January 2004 by
Chimaera Publications
Chimaera Publications is a publisher based in Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia. The company currently publishes the speculative fiction magazine ''Aurealis'' as well as running the Aurealis Awards.
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Chimaera Publications begun publish ...
in
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format.
It won the 2004
Aurealis Award for
best horror novel and the 2004 Golden Aurealis for best novel.
References
External links
''The Black Crusade''at richardharland.net
2004 Australian novels
Australian horror novels
Fiction set in 1894
Aurealis Award-winning works
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