It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of four girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared. Later, an elderly teacher was seen walking in the same direction. One girl came running back - screaming hysterically. A few days later, another girl was found, seemingly asleep and without her boots, stockings or corsets and with no memory of what had happened after she and her friends had begun to climb the rock. And two girls and a teacher were still missing...what was the truth behind this Gothic mystery? This edition illustrated with archival photographs and artwork of the period in black and white and colour.