The Devil is Not Mocked & Other Warnings: Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman (Volume 2) (v. 2) [Hardcover]

Manly Wade Wellman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2001

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. 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 * 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

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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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 343 pages
• Publisher: Night Shade Books (May 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189238910X
• ISBN-13: 978-1892389107
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,518,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent American Horror, October 5, 2002

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J. C. Paulsen (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil is Not Mocked & Other Warnings: Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman (Volume 2) (v. 2) (Hardcover)

Wellman was one of the great American fantasists, and this series is pretty much the definitive Wellman collection. John Pelan has done a great job selecting the stories, and the book itself is of high quality. It will look good on your shelf, it will last through many readings - and you really aren't going to be able to find the original stories in paperbacks and pulps. You just want to read, and the price is quite reasonable when you think about how much time and money you'd spend on the first editions. Even reprints of this stuff are hard to track down.

It's kind of like the horror equivalent of the NESFA Press collections, like the three-volume Hal Clement omnibus - great stories that aren't easy to find, collected and presented.

Kudos to Pelan and Nightshade for giving us a great edition of hard-to-find, high quality horror. Let's hope they keep it up with other authors, I'll keep buying them.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice assortment, January 13, 2005

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Paula Clifford "wasamatta" (Nashua, NH United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Devil is Not Mocked & Other Warnings: Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman (Volume 2) (v. 2) (Hardcover)

Another good collection of Wellman stories, well written and enjoyable. "Ever the Faith Endures" is my favorite here, a nice little tale of a man visiting a distant British relation and finding out a surprising family secret. "The Theatre Upstairs" is a nice weird story of revenge, while the title story features a Nazi general taking over a Romanian castle with only one occupant (not hard to guess who the occupant was). Over two dozen stories in all, with something for everyone.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Creepy Fun, August 30, 2005

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John Lees - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil is Not Mocked & Other Warnings: Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman (Volume 2) (v. 2) (Hardcover)

While I probably enjoyed the first book of this series better (as those stories had a solid character linking them all together) there are some great stories in this volume. One very nice thing about these tales is that many of them can be read in a single sitting. For someone like myself with a busy schedule, it means that I can pick them up, finish one (or sometimes even two) off and go a few days before picking the book up again. There isn't the loss of continuity that you can sometimes get with a longer work read the same way. Overall, the price is rather reasonable for a hardcover that reprints hart-to-find material, I just wish that the next volume (three) would get some kind of discount (it is the only one of the series that doesn't for some odd reason).