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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 COLLECTIONS
1973Worse 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.
Contents
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.
Contents
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.
Contents
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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.
Contents
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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