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 ...
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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. 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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Add this copy of The Devil is Not Mocked and Other Warnings (the to cart. $115.00, very good condition, Sold by The Haunted Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Iowa City, IA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Night Shade Books.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. 189238910x. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; a bump to the bottom free corner of the page block has caused a pair of concentric creases at the corners of about a hundred pages, and the leatherette of the cover also shows surface wear at the bottom free corners, otherwise excellent. 343pp. Stories of love crossed by the Lamia, hunger in Kelpie country, old magic crossed by new technologies, mysteries solved with cleverness and salt.
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Volume 2 of The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman, edited by John Pelan. Collects 28 stories plus an introduction by Ramsey Campbell and illustrations by Kenneth Waters. A fine copy w/o dust jacket, as issued.
Add this copy of The Devil is Not Mocked and Other Warnings to cart. $198.93, like new condition, Sold by Fantastic Literature Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rayleigh, ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Night Shade Books.
