Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman
3 total works
Volume 1 (Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations) collects Wellman’s John Thunstone and Lee Corbet stories. These stories (written between 1943 and 1979) combine the mystical and horrific with traditional southern folk tales and legends. At the same time, these stories reveal a post World War 2 modernism that make them much more then pulp romanticism. The paranoia and cynicism of modern weird icons such as the X-files may well have had their genesis in the pulp musings of Manly Wade Wellman. Indeed the intensely driven, idealistic occult investigator John Thunstone could be a pulp/noir stand in for Fox Mulder.
This work will be issued in a fine collector's hardcover state, with 24 illustrations. Edited by John Pelan, illustrated by Kenneth Waters.
Contents:
* Introduction
* The Third Cry to Legba
* The Golden Goblins
* Hoofs
* The Letters of Cold Fire
* John Thunstone's Inheritance
* Sorcery from Thule
* The Dead Man's Hand
* Thorne of the Threshold
* The Shonokins
* Blood from a Stone
* The Dai Sword
* Twice Cursed
* Shonokin Town
* The Leonard Rondache
* The Last Grave of Lill Warren
* Rouse Him Not
* The Dakwa
* The Beasts That Perish
* Willow He Walk
* A Witch for All Seasons
* Chastel
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
This work will be issued in a fine collector's hardcover state, with 24 illustrations. Edited by John Pelan, illustrated by Kenneth Waters.
Contents:
* Introduction
* The Third Cry to Legba
* The Golden Goblins
* Hoofs
* The Letters of Cold Fire
* John Thunstone's Inheritance
* Sorcery from Thule
* The Dead Man's Hand
* Thorne of the Threshold
* The Shonokins
* Blood from a Stone
* The Dai Sword
* Twice Cursed
* Shonokin Town
* The Leonard Rondache
* The Last Grave of Lill Warren
* Rouse Him Not
* The Dakwa
* The Beasts That Perish
* Willow He Walk
* A Witch for All Seasons
* Chastel
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
Sin’s Doorway and Other Ominous Entrances is the 4th volume of Night Shade Books’ five volume Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman.” This volume includes stories from 1927 through 1995, many of which were published in Weird Tales magazine.
Contents:
* Introduction by David Drake
* The Undead Soldier
* Larroes Catch Meddlers
* Up Under the Roof
* Among Those Present
* The Terrible Parchment
* Sin’s Doorway
* The Golgotha Dancers
* Changeling
* For Fear of Little Men
* Where Angels Fear
* The Witch’s Cat
* School for the Unspeakable
* Voice in a Veteran’s Ear
* These Doth the Lord Hate
* The Liers in Wait
* The Hairy Thunderer
* The Song of the Slaves
* It All Came True in the Woods
* When it Was Moonlight
* His Name on a Bullet
* The Valley Was Still
* Back to the Beast
* Finger of Halugra
* Arimetta
* Half Bull
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
Contents:
* Introduction by David Drake
* The Undead Soldier
* Larroes Catch Meddlers
* Up Under the Roof
* Among Those Present
* The Terrible Parchment
* Sin’s Doorway
* The Golgotha Dancers
* Changeling
* For Fear of Little Men
* Where Angels Fear
* The Witch’s Cat
* School for the Unspeakable
* Voice in a Veteran’s Ear
* These Doth the Lord Hate
* The Liers in Wait
* The Hairy Thunderer
* The Song of the Slaves
* It All Came True in the Woods
* When it Was Moonlight
* His Name on a Bullet
* The Valley Was Still
* Back to the Beast
* Finger of Halugra
* Arimetta
* Half Bull
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales is the 3rd volume of Night Shade Books’ five volume Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman.” This volume is made up of eight novella length stories. It 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. In addition, it features an introduction by Wellman’s long time friend, Stephen Jones, who provides a heartwarming bit of historical perspective on Wellman, and the influential shadow that his work as cast over the genre.
Contents:
* Introduction by Stephen Jones
* Fearful Rock
* Coven
* Toad’s Foot
* For the Love of a Witch
* The Hairy Ones Shall Dance
* The Black Drama
* The Dreadful Rabbits
* The Half-Haunted
* Some Notes on the Texts by John Pelan
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
Contents:
* Introduction by Stephen Jones
* Fearful Rock
* Coven
* Toad’s Foot
* For the Love of a Witch
* The Hairy Ones Shall Dance
* The Black Drama
* The Dreadful Rabbits
* The Half-Haunted
* Some Notes on the Texts by John Pelan
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.