Demons - Wayne Macauley

Title: Demons
Author: Wayne Macauley
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
First Edition, 2014
ISBN: 9781922147363

Condition: Good second-hand condition. Light shelf wear and handling marks to covers, with minor creasing visible to the spine and surface wear to the rear cover. Binding remains solid and pages are clean throughout.

Demons is an unsettling and atmospheric Australian literary novel that blends psychological tension, philosophical questions, and storytelling within storytelling.

Set during a stormy winter weekend on Victoria’s coast, seven friends retreat to a remote beach house off the Great Ocean Road to escape modern life and tell stories to one another. As the night unfolds, each tale begins revealing hidden fears, obsessions, contradictions, and moral fractures. The boundaries between truth and invention slowly collapse, and the gathering takes on an increasingly eerie and claustrophobic atmosphere.

Drawing inspiration from Demons and the tradition of framed narratives, Macauley explores memory, fiction, friendship, anxiety, and the strange performances people create around themselves. The result is a cerebral and haunting contemporary Australian novel with strong gothic undertones.