Manly Wade Wellman

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1938
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • Up Under the Roof

  • Chastel

    in Bloodsuckers: The Vampire Archives Volume 1

    The Vampire Archives is the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once you're in its clutches there's no escape. From the first to last bite, it's a bloody good read. Featuring:...

  • The Hanging Stones

    Wandering balladeer Silver John journeys to a tableland in the southern mountains and discovers a replica of Stonehenge that houses some ancient, unfriendly forces....

  • What Dreams May Come

  • The Voice of the Mountain

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  • The Old Gods Waken

    The first Silver John novel

    Strange evil things areterrorizing Luke and Creed Forshay who live at the foot of Wolter Mountain inthe southern Appalachians, a sacred place for Indians and their predecessors.Two old-world Druids, disguised as E...

  • After Dark

  • Lost and the Lurking

  • The School of Darkness



  • Cahena

  • Valley So Low

  • John the Balladeer

    Silver John wanders North Carolina's mountains with his silver-strung guitar in a land and time where the supernatural--from George Washington's ghost to something evil dwelling in a deserted mine--is never far away...

  • Twice in Time

    While vacationing in Italy, 19-year-old Leo Thrasher rashly experiments with a radical new science. The result: he "reflects" himself 500 years back in time and must deal with life in the middle ages as he strives to return to the present. And in the...

  • The Beyonders

  • The Devil Is Not Mocked and Other Warnings

    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 modernis...

  • Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales

    Manly Wade Wellman (1903"1986) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy stories, which frequently appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown, and Strange Stories. Wellman is best remembered as one of the m...

  • The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman Volume 5: Owls Hoot in the Daytime & 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), Ma...

  • The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman, Volume 4

    Sin’s Doorway and Other Ominous Entrances is the 4th volume of Night Shade Books’ five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman.” This volume includes stories from 1927 through 1995, many of which were published in Weird Tales magazine. ...

  • Giants from Eternity

    Scientist Oliver Norfleet and his college buddy Spencer DuPogue are called by the Board of Science, to investigate a mysteriously expanding red blight that is growing around the site of a meteor crash. With the help of the daughter of a famous scient...



  • Strangers on the Heights

    Ex-GI Will Gardestang just wanted to go to college on the GI Bill and get on with his life. After a chance meeting, he befriends Tommy Gatchell and Rico Challoner, two young men who share his love for philosophical debate, and soon all three particip...

  • Devil's Asteroid

    An entertaining story that plays like '2001: A Space Odyssey' in reverse. Martians, an interplanetary cold war, asteroids, and devolution await....

  • Hok The Mighty

    Hok the Mighty Cro-Magnon caveman These are the complete adventures as they originally appeared in Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures pulp magazines from 1939 to 1942. Fully illustrated with the original artwork. Follow Hok's adventures in "Ba...

  • The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streets of London are left decimated by a prolonged alien attack. Who could be responsible for such destruction? Sherlock Holmes is about to find out...

    Manly and W...

  • Who Fears the Devil

    • There’s a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the voi...

  • Battle in the Dawn: The Complete Hok the Mighty

    • In the 1930s, a very unusual tale appeared in the influential Amazing Stories magazine. Unlike the usual yarns of robots and interstellar travel, this “Battle in the Dawn” featured the brutal exploits of Hok, the first hero of humanity, ...

  • A Wellman Duo...Devil's Asteroid & The Golgotha Dancers

    The Rock Bred Evolution in Reverse Devil's Asteroid appeared in the July 1941 issue of Comet. "It was not very large, as asteroids go, but about it clung a silvery mist of atmosphere. Deeper flashes through the mist betokened water, and green patche...

  • West Point 3000 A.D. - The Invading Asteroid

  • West Point 3000 A.D. and The Invading Asteroid

    WEST POINT, 3000 A.D.--It was a sorry day indeed for Earth when she admitted Martian cadets to West Point for training. Garr Devlin was a denizen of the Underways, and to the Martian cadets, his entrance into West Point was the signal for war on Eart...

  • The Hairy Ones Shall Dance

    A short occult novel featuring werewolves by the acclaimed author of the Silver John series!...



  • The Half-Haunted

    The Half-Haunted is a short story by Manly Wade Wellman. Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 " April 5, 1986) was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknow...

  • The Liers in Wait

    The Liers in Wait is a short story by Manly Wade Wellman. Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 " April 5, 1986) was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unkno...

  • The Last Mammoth

    Sam Ward was yearning for adventure when a Cherokee man arrived from a distant village with a tale of a monstrous hairy creature threatening his land. The formerly peaceful beast went rogue upon the death of its mate, and the chief of the Twilight Pe...

  • Devil's Planet

    Originally published in Startling Stories in 1942, 'Devil’s Planet' was Manly Wade Wellman's fourth published science fiction novel, and it combines an adventure story set on Mars with a locked room murder mystery. Dillon Stover lands on Mars with ...

  • THE CURSE OF FEARFUL ROCK

    FEATURES 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 F...

  • Captain Future #20 The Solar Invasion

    Captain Future… the Ace of Space! Born and raised on the moon, Curt Newton survived the murder of his scientist parents to become the protector of the galaxy known as Captain Future. With his Futuremen, Grag the giant robot, Otho, the shape-shiftin...

  • Venus Enslaved

    What chance had the castaway Earthman and his crossbow-weaponed Amazons against the mighty Frogmasters of the Veiled Planet?...

  • The Black Drama

    A horrifying story from Weird Tales, the supreme shudder pulp, about a mysterious personality who claimed he was a descendant of Lord Byron—and the hideous doom that threatened all those around him!Gilbert Connatt, former film star, now dead b...

  • Pistols For Nobody

    Squire Huckleroy told the jury that Clavering and Tebow, both law scholars together, hadn’t been on kindliest terms because both of them wanted to court Squire Huckleroy’s blue-eyed daughter. And not only was Clavering now dead, but broken open w...

  • Sin's Doorway Manly

    There were twenty or twenty-five of them, overalled men, and women in homespun dresses and calico sunbonnets, and some shock-headed children. They stood bunched in front of a shabby little clapboard church -- I knew it was a church by the tacked-on s...



  • Hear the Evidence

    “Hear the Evidence,” a rare mystery by Wellman, taken from the pages of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. It shares the Southern setting and many of the best elements of his fantasy fiction. Includes an introduction by Karl Wurf....

  • Old Dhoh

    James Randolph edited a small daily paper in the east, and American myths were his hobby. His two-weeks’ holiday among Native American reservations would garner, he hoped, stories for what might some day be a book. But some stories are best left un...

  • The Timeless Tomorrow

    They're a group of rebels in the far future trying to save mankind. Join them as they travel through both space and time tying to defeat a fascist government that wants to control time itself. The Rebels are seeking a better future, but will they fin...

  • The Golgotha Dancers

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    The Golgotha Dancers is a short story by Manly Wade Wellman. Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 - April 5, 1986) was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unkn...

  • Hugo Gernsback Presents Science Fiction Stories #1

    • / Fantasy
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    The Science Fiction Stories series published by Gernsback included eighteen volumes of chapbooks, each at least 24 pages in length, and all of the stories had never appeared in print previous to their publication in these chapbooks. Pulpville Press i...

  • Sojarr of Titan

    • / Science Fiction
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  • The Werewolf Snarls and Other Stories

    • / Horror
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    The Werewolf Snarls – Nine early horror stories from Manly Wade Wellman including his first published story and his memoriam on the passing of H.P. Lovecraft.Back To The Beast (1927)At the Bend of the Trail (1934) – A brief story of Afr...

  • When it was Moonlight

    in The Midnight People
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Manly Wade Wellman has published 47 books.

Manly Wade Wellman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Timeless Tomorrow, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Manly Wade Wellman, Up Under the Roof, was published in January 1938.

No. Manly Wade Wellman does not write books in series.
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