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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Wolf Creek
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y separately published work icon Origin Wolf Creek : Origin Aaron Sterns , Greg McLean , Melbourne : Penguin Books , 2014 6840306 2014 single work novel horror

'Nature vs nurture turns out to be a bloodbath

'The wide open outback offers plenty of space for someone to hide. Or to hide a body.

'When wiry youngster Mick Taylor starts as a jackaroo at a remote Western Australian sheep station, he tries to keep his head down among the rough company of the farmhands. But he can't keep the devils inside him hidden for long.

'It turns out he's not the only one with the killer impulse – and the other psychopaths don't appreciate competition. Is Cutter, the station's surly shooter, on to him? And what are the cops really up to as they follow the trail of the dead?

'In the first of a blood-soaked series of Wolf Creek prequel novels, the cult film's writer/director Greg Mclean and horror writer Aaron Sterns take us back to the beginning, when Mick was a scrawny boy, the only witness to the grisly death of his little sister. Origin provides an unforgettably bloody answer to the question of nature vs nurture. What made Mick Taylor Australian horror's most terrifying psycho killer?' (Publisher's blurb)

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y separately published work icon Desolation Game Wolf Creek : Desolation Game; Desolation Game : Wolf Creek Book 2 Greg McLean , Brett McBean , Melbourne : Penguin Books , 2014 6841794 2014 single work novel horror

'When sharpshooter and killer Mick Taylor searches for a place to keep a low profile, he finds somewhere where his peculiar talents are appreciated: a war. And in Vietnam, an out-of-control sergeant takes the amateur murderer and turns him into a pro.

'Back home, Mick makes use of the sick lessons the army taught him, when hapless tour operators bring a Kombi-load of sightseers out his way into the Western Australian desert. Two suspicious flat tyres deliver an engaged Japanese couple, a father and son, a US army vet and his girlfriend, and a couple of cute girls to Mick's lair. Middle of nowhere, population one. The group finds themselves in hell, as Mick makes sure their once-in-a-lifetime tour stays that way. And though one of the drivers escapes and goes for help, Mick sees no reason to stop the killing spree.

'In the second Wolf Creek novel, the cult film's writer and director Greg McLean gets to the heart of Australian horror's most terrifying psycho killer. Is Mick Taylor possessed by some dark power in the landscape itself? Something ancient? Does the Red Centre demand blood?' (Publisher's blurb)

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Works about this Work

The Word on Wolf Creek Jane Sullivan , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 January 2014; (p. 27)

— Review of Wolf Creek Greg McLean , Aaron Sterns , 2014 series - author novel
More Blood, Gore from Wolf Creek Linda Morris , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 December 2013; (p. 15)
The Word on Wolf Creek Jane Sullivan , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 January 2014; (p. 27)

— Review of Wolf Creek Greg McLean , Aaron Sterns , 2014 series - author novel
More Blood, Gore from Wolf Creek Linda Morris , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 December 2013; (p. 15)
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