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'Death at the Blue Elephant is the first story collection by the respected and multiple award winning Australian writer and editor Janeen Webb. She is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, the Peter MacNamara SF Achievement Award, the Australian Aurealis Award, and is a three-time winner of the Ditmar Award. In her introduction to this book, Pamela Sargent describes these stories as evoking a "combination of suspenseful anticipation, nervous apprehension, and total absorption in something far removed from my own experience". Death at the Blue Elephant collects 18 incredible globe-spanning visions by the self-confessed 'inveterate traveller'. Five stories are original to this collection.' (Publication summary)
Contents
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Velvet Green,
single work
short story
fantasy
'[A] modern girl with attitude accidentally summons a traditional trickster, Jack-in-the-Green, who entangles her in a deadly dangerous confrontation in the world beyond the wood.'
Source: Author's introduction.
- Manifest Destiny, single work short story fantasy
- Death at the Blue Elephant, single work short story fantasy
- The Red City, single work short story science fiction
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Paradise Design'd,
single work
short story
fantasy
A retelling of Adam and Eve, but with dinosaurs.
- The Lion Hunt, single work short story fantasy
- Incident on Woolfe Street, single work short story horror
- Lady of the Swamp, single work short story fantasy
- A Faust Films Production, single work short story fantasy
- Gawain and the Selkie's Daughter, single work short story fantasy
- Niagara Falling, single work short story science fiction
- The Fire-Eater's Tale, single work short story science fiction
- Skull Beach, single work short story fantasy
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Tigershow,
single work
short story
horror
'Violence and madness simmer just under the surface of poor Robert in "Tigershow," but the question remains as to which reality in the grisly tale is the true one' (Lisa DuMond, SF Site).
- Hell Is Where the Heart Is, single work short story fantasy horror
- Full Moon in Virgo, single work short story
- Blake's Angel, single work short story horror
- The Sculptor's Wife, single work short story fantasy
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Awards
- 2015 shortlisted World Fantasy Award — Best Collection
- 2015 finalist Locus Awards — Collection