Manly Wade Wellman Books In Order

Who Fears the Devil?

There’s a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit, and the magic of his guitar to preserve him. Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John is one of the most beloved figures in fantasy, a true American folk hero of the literary age. For the first time the Planet Stories edition of Who Fears the Devil?? collects all of John’s adventures published throughout Wellman’s life, including two stories about John before he got his silver stringed guitar that have never previously appeared in a Silver John collection. Lost, out of print, or buried in expensive hardcover editions, the seminal, unforgettable tales of Who Fears the Devil?? stand ready for a new generation ready to continue the folk tradition of Silver John!

The Devil’s Asteroid

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Giants from Eternity

Scientist Oliver Norfleet and his college buddy Spencer DuPogue are called by the Board of Science, to investigate a mysteriously expanding red blight that is growing around the site of a meteor crash. With the help of the daughter of a famous scientist, they soon discover that the blight is not only alive, but that it consumes nearly everything in its path. When their own abilities prove inadequate, they are forced to turn to the greatest scientific minds that history has to offer. Can Norfleet and DuPogue and the Giants from Eternity stop the blight before the entire Earth is consumed? Also includes the novella The Timeless Tomorrow.

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streets of London are left decimated by a prolonged alien attack. Who could be responsible for such destruction? Sherlock Holmes is about to find out…
Manly and Wade Wellman’s novel takes H.G. Wells’s classic story of Martian invasion and throws Holmes into the mix, with surprising and unexpected results. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

Sherlock Holmes’ War of the Worlds

Now at last! The Story H. G. Wells never told the dramatic role of Detective Holmes in the Martian Invasion of the Earth.

Rebel Boast

During the Civil War, a family group of five young men marched away to Big Bethel, and two lived to lay down their arms at Appomattox. Through their letters and diaries, they left a testimony to what men they were, and how they fought and triumphed and lost. This first reprint, written from the common soldier’s viewpoint, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1956.

Spirit Archives

As the seventh hardcover edition in the impressive Spirit Archives collection, this masterpiece features the work of some of the pioneers of the comic world. With the war in Europe still waging, the Sunday strips from July 4 December 26, 1943 had the Spirit focusing his attention to homegrown homefront problems. Returning to his crimefighting roots, the Spirit must help Ellen Dolan when she is framed for a dance marathon murder, prove his own innocence when he becomes the prime suspect for a prominent businessman’s death, catch a shipyard saboteur, thwart a kidnapping by a couple of femme fatales, and confront a murderous ex con living on a construction site.

Strangers on the Heights

Ex GI Will Gardestang just wanted to go to college on the GI Bill and get on with his life. After a chance meeting, he befriends Tommy Gatchell and Rico Challoner, two young men who share his love for philosophical debate, and soon all three participate in an ESP experiment. After Will and Rico display apparent psychic abilities, Rico begins to become panicky and in short order is killed before their eyes, seemingly long distance by his superiors in a devil worshipping cult. Enraged over the death of their friend, Will and Tommy vow to track down the killers and unmask their diabolic plans. Will they survive the showdown with the Strangers on the Heights? Strangers on the Heights was first published in the Summer 1944 issue of Startling Stories. Published in the UK as Beasts from Beyond. Also includes Manly’s short novel Nuisance Value, which has been published in an abridged form as The Dark Destroyers.

Giants from Eternity / Lords of Atlantis / City on the Moon

Here are three more stories from the pioneers of the early days of pulp science fiction. In Giants from Eternity, scientist Oliver Norfleet and his buddy Spencer DuPogue turn to history’s greatest scientific minds to stop a mysterious red blight that is growing around the site of a meteor crash and consuming everything in its path. In Lords of Atlantis, Atlantis had once been ruled by the Titans, who were replaced by the red skinned, red haired Martians Zeus, Hera, Athena, and others. Now the Titans, chafing under the so called benevolent progress of their rulers, plot rebellion. In City on the Moon, the Earth shuttle s moon based landing mechanism is destroyed by an avalanche. Joe Kenmore determines that explosives were the cause and must rush to restore the landing beam before the shuttle reaches its point of no return.

The Devil is Not Mocked

Wellman’s work will be remembered, and should be preserved because it combines the dark gothic tradition of the American pulps with a detailed snapshot of regional history and culture. This mixture is shown through the lens of the American modernist tradition, revealing something that is larger than the sum of its parts.

Fearful Rock

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 a 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.

Owls Hoot in the Daytime

Owls Hoot in the Daytime & Other Omens is the 5th and final volume of Night Shade Books’ five volume ‘Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman.’ This volume contains all of the John the Balladeer stories sometimes better known as Silver John, Manly’s most famous character. Contents: Introduction by Karl Edward Wagner O Ugly Bird! The Desrick on Yandro Vandy, Vandy One Other Call Me From the Valley The Little Black Train Shiver in the Pines Walk Like A Mountain On the Hills and Everywhere Old Devlins Was A Waiting Nine Yards of Other Cloth Wonder As I Wander Farther Down the Trail Trill Coster’s Burden The Spring Owls Hoot in the Daytime Can These Bones Live? Nobody Ever Goes There Where Did She Wander? Afterword by Gerald W. Page

Sin’s Doorway

Sin’s Doorway and Other Ominous Entrances is the 4th volume of Night Shade Books five volume ‘Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman.’

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

The Third Cry to Legba

Volumne 1 Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations collects Wellman’s John Thunstone and Lee Cobbet 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.

Battle in the Dawn

In the 1930s, a very unusual tale appeared in the influential Amazing Stories magazine. Unlike the usual yarns of robots and interstellar travel, this ‘Battle in the Dawn‘ featured the brutal exploits of Hok, the first hero of humanity, in his struggles against the savage Neanderthals. Written by rising pulpster Manly Wade Wellman Who Fears the Devil?, who would later achieve fame for his American folktales of Silver John and beat out William Faulkner for a prestigious writing award, the story and its brave hero struck a chord with Amazing’s readers, and several additional adventures followed, taking Hok through the prehistory of mankind to battle unrelenting cavemen, explore the lost city of Atlantis, discover new technology, and chart a new destiny for humanity. Now, for the first time ever, Planet Stories presents a complete authorized collection of all of Wellman’s rare Hok the Mighty tales, packed with unfinished story fragments, all new illustrations, and a brand new introduction by Wellman’s longtime friend, fantasy author David Drake.

Science Fiction Gems, Volume Two

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories. ‘Science Fiction Gems, Vol. Two’ features includes the incredible Hugo Awarding winning story, ‘Rat in the Skull’ by Rog Phillips. It also includes other fine works by James Blish, Robert Silverberg, Philip K. Dick, Manly Wade Wellman, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alan E. Nourse, C. M. Kornbluth, Philip Jose Farmer, and others. This is another great collection of classic science fiction. It’s a guaranteed trip into the far off future and the deepest reaches of outer space.

The Golgotha Dancers

‘Hold on, there!’ came a sharp challenge from the stairs behind and below me. ‘What are you doing? And what’s that picture doing?’ It was one of the Museum’s guards. ‘I was going to ask somebody that same question,’ I told him as austerely as I could manage. ‘What about this picture? I thought there was a B cklin hanging here.’ The guard relaxed. ‘Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. I thought you were somebody else the man who brought that thing.’ He nodded at the picture. ‘Personally, I think it’s plain beastly.’ ‘And the Museum has accepted it at last?’ I asked. He shook his head. ‘Oh, no, sir.’ I, too, came close. There was no plate beneath the painting. But in the lower left hand corner of the canvas were sprawling capitals, pale paint on the dark, spelling out the word GOLGOTHA. Beneath these, in small, barely readable script: I sold my soul that I might paint a living picture.

Dead and Gone

The stories behind ten famous murders in North Carolina from 1808 1914. 109 pages

The Kingdom of Madison

Tucked away among the ancient and rugged mountains of Western North Carolina, Madison County sometimes called ‘The Kingdom of Madison‘ by its older citizens is one of the most misunderstood and least appreciated counties in the entire state. Until only recently, hard to get into and out of, it has been a genuinely isolated area, blurred in the attention of even neighboring counties. Partially because of this isolation the rest of North Carolina and the world has tended to lose sight of the unique history and folkways of this area and the vigorous, self reliant, and proud men and women who have lived there since the frontier period of the 1770s. In this lively and fascinating book one of North Carolina’s greatest ever writers redresses this myopic imbalance and introduces us to the real Madison County. In doing so he makes us realize that much of what has been written or said about the county or its people is rumor or, at best, exaggeration. As a part time resident for decades of summers, Manly Wade Wellman came to know Madison intimately. He knew banjo pickers and lawyers, blockaders called moonshiners by outsiders and preachers, and he heard many stories, legendary and true, of the mountain people.

He has roamed the mountains Sandy Mush, Sugarloaf Knob, Max Patch, Bluff and Hurricane and forded the creeks Spillcorn and Sprinkle and Shut in, Bull and Bear and Turkey and Doe, Puncheon Fork and Crooked Branch, Big Pine and Little Pine, and has stood on the banks of the rushing, rock filled French Broad River. He makes this chronicle of The Kingdom of Madison sing in a way that resonates the heartstrings and does these proud people well.