Volume 4 Sin's Doorway and Other Ominous Locales is the 4th and final volume of Night Shade Books’ five volume “Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman.” 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. 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. Volume 3 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. Volume 2 The Devil is not Mocked and Other Warnings is the 2nd volume of Night Shade Books’ five volume “Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman.” Collecting all of Wellman's Appalachian fantasy stories. Edited by John Pelan, illustrated by Kenneth Waters. This work will be issued in a fine collector's hardcover state, with 24 illustrations. Indeed the intensely driven, idealistic occult investigator John Thunstone could be a pulp/noir stand in for Fox Mulder.
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. At the same time, these stories reveal a post World War 2 modernism that make them much more then pulp romanticism.
These stories (written between 19) combine the mystical and horrific with traditional southern folk tales and legends. Volume 1 The Third Cry to Legba and Other Innovations is the 1st volme of the Night Shage Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman." This Volume collects Wellman's John Thunstone and Lee Corbet stories.
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