“Venus, Mars, and Baker Street” ( F&SF, March 1972) (with Wade Wellman) 1973 Art by Lee Brown Coye Napoleon of the West: A Story of the Aaron Burr Conspiracy (1970) 1971 Artist Unknownįast Break Five (1971) 1972 Art by Chesley Bonestell His best stories were collected in the 2000s with his legacy firmly established in Fantasy & Science Fiction circles. Manly passed away on April 5, 1986.Īfter Manly’s death collections of his work appeared from time to time along with odd pieces found here and there. The 1980s proved to be a renaissance of new Fantasy with the Silver John novels and new stories for the small press Horror magazines like Stuart David Schiff’s Whispers, Charles l. (This would lead to Wagner writing his best loved story, “Sticks”.) In the late 1970s, Wellman wrote his first true Sword & Sorcery series about Kardios of Atlantis. In 1973, Karl Edward Wagner becgan Carcosa Press to publish Manly’s best work with new illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. I found 'Vigils' to be a better book.The 1970s saw Wellman finishing his Sherlock Holmes Versus the War of the Worlds series with his son, Wade, as well as the last of his historical non-fiction books. Wellman published a second book for Carcosa - Lonely Vigils.which as far as I know has not been released. This collection was originally published by Carcosa House in the 1980s (Karl Edward Wagner was a part owner).and certainly worth a look if you enjoy pulp fiction. I enjoyed most of the stories, but felt the chapter 'Night Side of History' contained the weakest stories.this chapter contained several stories based on the American Indian and their beliefs - and could not truly be considered horror stories, but fantasy.

The book is split into 4 chapters - Pages from a Memory Book, Gray Voices, The Night Side of History, and Longer in the Telling. Wellman was an adept writer, and set many, if not all of his stories in the South, some set around the period of the Civil War. 'Worse Things Waiting' is a collection of Short Stories primarily published in 'Wierd Tales' from the

Wellman also created the character of Silver John, who wandered the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina - armed only with his guitar strung with silver, and his belief in God. Manly Wade Wellman had a long ntributing stories to Weird Tales, Unknown, and Strange Stories, among others.

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