by Manly Wade Wellman

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The Curse of Fearful Rock

THE STORY THAT MADE WELLMAN'S REPUTATION, AND ITS SEQUEL COVEN. GRIPPING TALES OF A VISITATION OF SUPERNATURAL EVIL DURING AND AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. Winner of the World Fantasy, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellery Queen, Locus and British Fantasy Awards, Manly Wade Wellman is considered one of the greatest fantasy writers who ever lived and is one of the creators of the great Weird Tales tradition. An eerie tale of the American Civil War, and the uncanny evil being who called himself Persil Mandifer, and his lovely daughter, Enid, a tale of dark powers and weird happenings.

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Worse Things Waiting

One of the cornerstone short story collections in the fantasy and horror genres. Originally published by the legendary imprint Carcosa, Worse Things Waiting gathers 28 stories and two poems, selected from over 100 stories—the cream of nearly a half-century of fiction taken from the pages of Weird Tales, Unknown, Strange Stories and many other Golden Age pulps.

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The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations

Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman, Vol. 1. This audiobook collects Wellman's John Thunstone and Lee Corbet stories, written between 1943 and 1979. These stories combine the mystical and horrific with traditional Southern folk tales and legends. These stories also reveal a post-World War II 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.

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1. I had come to the Art Museum to see the special show of Goya prints…
2. “Hold on, there!” came a sharp challenge from the stairs behind and below me…
3. It was not until I had paid off my taxi…
4. Something held me tight by the wrist…
5. In my first half-moment of wakefulness I was aware that the room was filled with the pink dancers of the picture…
6. I saw and sensed all this…
7. Somebody was knocking outside…
8. It was a good dinner…
9. This time the dancers did not retreat or vanish; they lurked in the comparative gloom of the entry…