(Published under the name of Cecelia Drewer). The last chapter was considered to have the most appeal to fans of Lovecraft's work and was extracted and published as “Symbolism of Style in `The Strange High House in the Mist'", Lovecraft Studies 31, edited by S.T. LOVECRAFT: A WRITER IN SEARCH OF A THEORY (1993-1994) was completed as a reseach project which replaced several subjects in my Master of Arts through the Univeristy of New South Wales. My Thesis entitled: THE LITERARY MANIFESTO OF H.P. Lovecraft, on whom I completed a Master’s project. Stephen King’s Danse Macabre led me to H.P. In search of more riveting reading, I discovered Stephen King and James Herbert. It was so amazing, I read it seven times in a row! Eventually, I discovered there was a whole series… I survived on this sort of fair until I was sixteen and read The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. I loved Enid Blyton, her Wishing Chair stories, Magic Faraway Tree stories, fairy-land and toy-land stories as well as the mysteries.Ī couple of years later, I discovered The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe by C.S. The mystery story was so exciting, I finished it in one session and I was a fast reader from that moment onwards.
Reading was a slow process until one birthday, I sat down with my gift, a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton. Sometimes there was a fat cat on a mat or dog with a ball. I remember the struggle to learn to read – painfully stringing three letter words together – there was Sam and Pam and a ball. As a dark-haired, tanned little English girl (remember Britain was at one stage occupied by the Romans), I was very different and mercilessly teased. I grew up in the Barossa Valley, an area of South Australia predominantly settled by German immigrants.
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