Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman, volumes 1, 2, 3 and 5 - Manly Wade Wellman Audiobook

Written by Manly Wade Wellman
Read by Brian Troxell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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.

1. The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations

This collection of Manly Wade Wellman’s intriguing, mystifying, and eerie stories featuring John Thunstone and Lee Cobbet is guaranteed to inspire paranoia and thrills. Brian Troxell gives voice to the disturbing, sometimes alarming, and always entertaining adventures of these investigators of the supernatural from a master of mystically romantic pulp horror. Stories featuring playboy detective of the supernatural, Thunstone, and fellow occult expert Cobbet include, besides the title story famous for introducing Thunstone and arch-enemy, sorcerer Rowley Thorne, “The Golden Goblins”, “Hoofs”, “The Letters of Cold Fire”, “John Thunstone’s Inheritance”, “Sorcery from Thule”, “The Dead Man’s Hand”, and “The Shonokins”.

2. The Devil Is Not Mocked and Other Warnings

Manly Wade Wellman has found his way into the canon of American gothic short fiction. The Devil Is Not Mocked and Other Warnings brings together some of his most intriguing and hair-raising tales of terror and danger. Known for his portrayal of the American Appalachians, Wellman has carved out a niche as one of the greats in science-fiction and fantasy. Brian Troxell and Kristin Kalbli team up for the performance of this audiobook to great effect. Troxell and Kalbi both understand the sense of mounting dread that characterizes Wellman’s unnerving work. This is Volume Two of a five-volume set collecting all of Wellman’s Appalachian fantasy stories. Contents:

“The Devil Is Not Mocked”
“The Pineys”
“Hundred Years Gone”
“Where the Woodbine Twineth”
“Keep Me Away”
“Come into My Parlor”
“Yare”

And more!

3. Fearful Rock and other Precarious Locales

Brian Troxell gives a compelling performance of Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales: Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman, Volume 3. His sonorous voice and marvelous ability to create vibrant, distinctive characters complements these eerie and highly entertaining tales. American writer Wellman is known for his contributions to the science fiction and fantasy genres. This audiobook contains: “Fearful Rock”, “Coven”, “Toad’s Foot”, “For the Love of a Witch”, “The Hairy Ones Shall Dance”, “The Black Drama”, “The Dreadful Rabbits”, and “The Half-Haunted”, as well as additional material by Stephen Jones and John Pelan.

Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales is the third volume of Night Shade Books’ five volume “Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman.” This volume is made up of eight novella length stories. It includes Wellman’s “Judge Pursivant” and “Sergeant Jaeger” stories, as well as a lost classic from Strange Stories (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

5. Owls Hoot in the Daytime and Other Omens

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