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COLLECTIONS
The NIGHT
SHADE BOOKS OMNIBUS:
The Third Cry to Legba and Other
Invocations Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman - Vol. 1
2000 ISBN: 1-892389-07-X
Volume 1 (Third Cry to Legba and Other
Invocations) collects Wellman’s John Thunstone and Lee Corbet
stories.
The Devil is Not Mocked and Other Warnings
Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman - Vol. 2
2001 ISBN: 1-892389-10-X
Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales
Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman - Vol. 3
2001 ISBN: 1-892389-21-5
Reprints Wellman’s “Judge Pursivant” and
“Sergeant Jaeger” stories, as well as a lost classic that has not
been reprinted since its original publication in Strange Stories, in
1939.
Sin’s Doorway and Other Ominous Entrances
Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman - Vol. 4
2003 ISBN:
1-892389-22-3
Catching the rest of the Wellman
Miscellany, from mountain mythos to Lovecraft
tribute.
Owls Hoot in the Daytime & Other
Omens
Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman - Vol. 5
2003
ISBN:
1-892389-23-1
This volume contains all of the John the
Balladeer stories (sometimes better known as Silver John), Manly's
most famous character.
OTHER COLLECTIONS1973Worse Things Waiting,
Carcosa
Press (K. E. Wagner
ed)
One of the few books to come out of Karl Edward
Wagner's Carcosa Press, it is a fine collection of early Wellman
fiction ranging from his southern mountain folklore regulars to
supernatural Civil War stories.
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1981Lonely Vigils,
Carcosa
Press (K. E. Wagner
ed)
One of the other few books from Carcosa Press
collecting the stories of Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant and John
Thunstone.
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1987The Valley So Low:
Southern Mountain Stories
Doubleday (K. E. Wagner ed)
This is a fine collection of Wellman's most
recent Appalachian tales written in the 70's and 80's. Tales about
Judge Pursuivant, John Thunstone, Silver John and others all make
appearances.
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OTHER SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY NOVELS
The Invading
Asteroid
Stellar Publishing Corporation 1932 (pb -
chapbook)
Romance in Black
[as Gans T. Field] Utopian
Publications [UK] 1946 (? undated - pirated pb) Sojarr of Titan
Prize / Crestwood 1949 (pb)
The Beasts from
Beyond World Fantasy Classics [UK], 1950 (pb)
Sci-fi in the Appalachian
landscape with Lovecraftian undertones.
The Devil's Planet
World Fantasy Classics [UK], 1951 (pb)
Giants from
Eternity Avalon 1959 (hc); Leonard Nimoy Science Fiction: The
Gold Collection, Volume 2 Global 1976 (CD ROM)
The Dark DestroyersAvalon 1959 (hc); Ace 1960 [abridged] (pb)
Terra Utopische Romane #130 (Germany) 1959 as Die
Kaltzeller
One half of an Ace Double Novel Book.
Fifty years after Ice creatures have invaded the Earth, one man
travels to their stronghold to find their Achilles Heel.
Island in the Sky
Avalon 1961 (hc)
Zutopia Zukenftsromane #88
(Germany) undated; circa 1957 as Die Fligende
Insel
The Solar Invasion
Popular Library 1968 [Captain Future] (pb)
A sci-fi space adventure starring "Captain
Future" as he fights a fiend from the fifth dimension who threatens
to destroy the universe.
Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds [with Wade Wellman] Warner 1975 (pb)
as La Guerra dei Mondi di Sherlock Holmes [Italy]
Urania 1981
A look at what Professor Challenger's and
Sherlock Holmes's involvement in the invasion of Earth by Martians
would have been like.
1988Twice In Time, Baen Books (Intro by K. E.
Wagner)
Two
Wellman stories on time travel and an essay by Leah Bodine Drake.
The Beyonders
Warner 1977 (pb); Baen 1989 (pb)
An Appalachian village learn of a portal
leading to a Lovecraftian race of ancient trans-dimensional
creatures plotting the takeover and enslavement of the human
race.
Cahena: A Dream of the
Past Doubleday 1986 (hc)
Wellman's last book, about an African warrior
princess
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THE JOHN THE
BALLADEER
(SILVER
JOHN)
NOVELS
All originally published in hardback by
Doubleday, then later in paperback by Berkley.
1979The Old Gods
Waken
European druids of the evil sort, come to claim
a bit of land in the mountains known for its ancient power. One of
the best in the series of John novels.
1980
After
Dark
The
Shonokins try to trick John into helping restore them to their
former power. Go
here
to see a more in depth review.
1981The Lost and the
Lurking
A
desolate village is run by a power grubbing witch trying to gain
world domination by sacrificing John to darkness.
1982 The Hanging
Stones
John has a two-sided fight dealing with wolf
demons and the money grubbing industrialist who wants to build an
amusement park in the demons' territory. The central attraction
being a recreation of Stonehenge.
1984
The Voice of the Mountain
There's a lonely and haunting
sound that comes from Cry Mountain, and as John tries to find out
the source of the sound, he encounters many mythical creatures of
folk legend as well as the sorcerer who controls
them.
1963
Who Fears the
Devil?, Arkham House (August Derleth ed)The collected tales of John the Balladeer, but
like many Arkham House collections, Derleth rewrote many of the
stories himself in order to fit the collection into a more one story
line, novel format. As anyone would be, Wellman wasn't terribly
happy about
that.
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1988
John the Balladeer, Baen Books (K. E.
Wagner ed with a forward by David Drake)
This is the ultimate paperback collection of
Silver John stories, putting together all of the stories and
fragments used in the Arkham House collection
Who Fears The Devil?
but reprinted in an
unmolested form straight from their original appearances in the
pulps. This also collects all of the newest John stories made since
1963.
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THE JOHN THUNSTONE NOVELS
All
originally published in hardback by Doubleday
1983
What Dreams May
Come
Thunstone visits a rural
hamlet in England where a prehistoric effigy of a human on the side
of a mountain emanates with supernatural power that can affect
dreams and even create inter dimensional time
travel.
1985 The School of
Darkness
Thunstone runs across his arch-enemy Rowley
Thorne at a symposium on American folklore. On Thorne's side
is a coven of witches, on Thunstone's are his comrades Judge
Persuivant, Ruben Manco and more.
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