Fearful Rock & Other Precarious Locales: Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman (Volume 3) - Hardcover

Wellman, Manly Wade

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1892389215 ISBN 13: 9781892389213

Publisher: Night Shade, 2001

Synopsis

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

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About this title

About the Author:

Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer.

While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary Weird Tales, and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. Karl Edward Wagner referred to him as "the dean of fantasy writers." Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction.

Wellman was a long-time resident of North Carolina. He received many awards, including the World Fantasy Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this third volume of a projected five-book selection of the fantastic fiction of versatile Weird Tales veteran Wellman (d. 1986), the collected adventures of two series characters provide sterling examples of the craft of the author, who as a raconteur could elevate the pulp horror thriller to an uncommon level of sophistication. The title story, one of three to feature Sergeant Jaeger, an ex-Union soldier turned minister, is an eerie tale of an occult horror that takes root in the wilderness along the Missouri-Arkansas border at the height of the Civil War. Built solidly from elements of the Southern Gothic, regional folklore, classic supernatural fiction and the grim history of Quantrill's Raiders, it and companion novella "Coven" blend spooky atmospherics surprisingly well with two-fisted heroics that keep the pages turning. Four tales involving debonair occult detective Keith Hilary Pursuivant approach their similar supernatural themes from a more learned and scholarly angle.They ring intriguing variations on the werewolf theme ("The Hairy Ones Shall Dance") and give Wellman a chance to pen credible excerpts from a "lost" verse drama by a supernaturally sustained Lord Byron ("The Black Drama"). These stories were frequently a cut above the work of Wellman's contemporaries, and they still provide a pleasing frisson of terror more than half a century after they were written.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Night Shade
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1892389215
• ISBN 13: 9781892389213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296