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Alternative title: The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow
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Appears in:
- y The Bulletin vol. 67 no. 3457 15 May 1946 Z605317 1946 periodical issue 1946 pg. 7, 24
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Appears in:
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y
Coast to Coast : Australian Stories 1946
M. Barnard Eldershaw
(editor),
Sydney
:
Angus and Robertson
,
1947
Z370313
1947
periodical issue
short story
Sydney
:
Angus and Robertson
,
1947
pg.
185-201
Note: With title: The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow
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y
Coast to Coast : Australian Stories 1946
M. Barnard Eldershaw
(editor),
Sydney
:
Angus and Robertson
,
1947
Z370313
1947
periodical issue
short story
Sydney
:
Angus and Robertson
,
1947
pg.
185-201
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Appears in:
- y The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1956 Z89051 1956 selected work short story humour Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1956 pg. 1-13
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Appears in:
- y The Big Burn : Short Stories Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1965 Z88353 1965 selected work short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1965 pg. 115-125
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Appears in:
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y
My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years
Leonie Kramer
(editor),
Sydney
:
Lansdowne
,
1985
Z1067493
1985
anthology
poetry
short story
Sydney
:
Lansdowne
,
1985
pg.
140-149
Note: With title: The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow
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y
My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years
Leonie Kramer
(editor),
Sydney
:
Lansdowne
,
1985
Z1067493
1985
anthology
poetry
short story
Sydney
:
Lansdowne
,
1985
pg.
140-149
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Appears in:
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The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories
Ken Gelder
(editor),
Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
1994
Z356827
1994
anthology
short story
crime
young adult
'Did Australian ghosts suffer from a cultural cringe? Dr Ken Gelder indicates in the introduction to another fascinating OUP anthology that early ghost stories were essentially a "transported genre" that looked back to England as their source. Thus John Lang's well-known story "The Ghost upon
the Rail" is based upon a case of murder for post-convict wealth.
Gelder argues that Australian ghost stories possess their own ironical flavour, but the gothic tradition has to be resolved in outback locations or deserted mining towns, as in David Rowbotham's "A Schoolie and the Ghost".'
'Gelder relies heavily on Victorian and Edwardian writers, such as Marcus Clarke, Barbara Baynton and Hume Nisbet, as if unsure as to the nature of contemporary ghosts. It is interesting to see that Australia's science fiction writers, such as Lucy Sussex and Terry Dowling, provide the link between the past and the present. Dowling's "The Daeman Street Ghost-Trap" effectively uses traditional settings to link ghosts with a current horror, namely cancer. Several bunyip stories remind us of a particular Antipodean creature to stand against the assorted European manifestations.'
(Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.55).
Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1994 pg. 220-229
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y
The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories
Ken Gelder
(editor),
Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
1994
Z356827
1994
anthology
short story
crime
young adult
'Did Australian ghosts suffer from a cultural cringe? Dr Ken Gelder indicates in the introduction to another fascinating OUP anthology that early ghost stories were essentially a "transported genre" that looked back to England as their source. Thus John Lang's well-known story "The Ghost upon
the Rail" is based upon a case of murder for post-convict wealth.
Gelder argues that Australian ghost stories possess their own ironical flavour, but the gothic tradition has to be resolved in outback locations or deserted mining towns, as in David Rowbotham's "A Schoolie and the Ghost".'
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