A few weeks ago, curator Suzette Wearne received a complaint about Weird Melancholy: The Australian Gothic at the University of Melbourne’s Ian Potter Museum of Art. It repositions early-Australian ...

The English-born Clarke coined the term "weird melancholy" in a preface he wrote for fellow writer Adam Lindsay Gordon's Sea Spray and Smoke Drift. His description of our landscape has now been ...

His early surrealistic drawings of ghoulish figures and cover illustrations for the magazine Weird Tales are considered classics. He returned to the horror field in the 1990s and won a prestigious ...