The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman Volume 1: The Third Cry to Legba & Other Invocations

by Wellman, Manly Wade

• ISBN13: 9781892389077
• ISBN10: 189238907X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Nightshade Book

Summary

Volume 1 (Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations) collects Wellman's John Thunstone and Lee Corbet 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. This work will be issued in a fine collector's hardcover state, with 24 illustrations. Edited by John Pelan, illustrated by Kenneth Waters. Contents: * Introduction * 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 of the Threshold * The Shonokins * Blood from a Stone * The Dai Sword * Twice Cursed * Shonokin Town * The Leonard 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

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(7)
The John Thunstone Stories
The Third Cry to Legba	7	(18)
The Golden Goblins	25	(14)
Hoofs	39	(12)
The Letters of Cold Fire	51	(16)
John Thunstone's Inheritance	67	(14)
Sorcery from Thule	81	(12)
The Dead Man's Hand	93	(16)
Thorne on the Threshold	109	(14)
The Shonokins	123	(12)
Blood from a Stone	135	(12)
The Dai Sword	147	(12)
Twice Cursed	159	(26)
Shonokin Town	185	(22)
The Leonard Rondache	207	(10)
The Last Grave of Lill Warren	217	(20)
Rouse Him Not	237	(10)
The Lee Cobbett Stories
The Dakwa	247	(14)
The Beasts That Perish	261	(10)
Willow He Walk	271	(10)
A Witch for All Seasons	281	(6)
Chastel	287