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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.

Contents:

• A Giant Up in the Mountains (essay) by John Pelan
• 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 on the Threshold
• The Shonokins
• Blood from a Stone
• The Dai Sword
• Twice Cursed
• Shonokin Town
• The Leonardo 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

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.

Contents:

• Manly Remembered (essay) by Ramsey Campbell
• The Devil Is Not Mocked
• The Pineys
• Hundred Years Gone
• Where the Woodbine Twineth
• Keep Me Away
• Come Into My Parlor
• Yare
• Chorazin
• The Petey Car
• Along About Sundown
• What of the Night
• Rock, Rock
• Lamia
• Caretaker
• The Ghastly Priest Doth Reign
• Goodman's Place
• Frogfather
• Dhoh
• Warrior in Darkness
• Young-Man-With-Skull-at-His-Ear
• Vigil
• The Kelpie
• Parthenope
• The Theater Upstairs
• Ever the Faith Endures
• Dead Dog
• The Cavern
• At the Bend of the Trail

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

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

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