Short Fiction Grimshaw, Beatrice: The Black Dog of Bareina, and other stories, v1, 2 Jun 2026

Irish born Beatrice Grimshaw (1870-1953) worked for a period for a London newspaper, and went to the South Seas around 1900 to file travel stories for her paper. She stayed, settled in Port Moresby, Papua, and lived there until the mid to late 1930s, when, then in her 60s, she retired to Australia. While in New Guinea she became a popular author of romantic, and sometimes tough, novels of the South Seas, several non-fiction works, and many short stories. 8 collections of short stories are known to have been published in her lifetime, but so far only two of them can be found on-line. This volume is the 3rd new collection I have compiled and edited from magazine and newspapers. They are mostly set in Papua and neighbouring south sea islands, and are more or less in chronological order.

1: The Lily Wedding
2: The Dim Dim Girl
3: The Pearl Men
4: The Safe of the Shalimar
5: Yap-A-Nee
6: The Black Dog of Bareina
7: Larder Valley
8: When the Bush Came Back
9: Jane and the Phoenix Egg
10: The Little Men of Lolok
11: The Devil Pig
12: The Star of Death
13: A Bag of Gold
14: Dead Men's Chests:
15: Sands of Coral
16: The Lady or The Pearl?
17: Shadow of the Palm
18: Green Gaol
19: Bully Boy's Daughter

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