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The 1940s saw Wellman write many of his most famous pieces including the John Thunstone stories as well as “Sin’s Doorway”, seen by some of as the first Silver John story. John’s most famous enemies, the Shonikins also appear in both stories and comics. Wellman would branch out into new fields of writing with mysteries in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as well as his first historical non-fiction, and juvenile fiction, three directions he would pursue fully in the 1950s and beyond.
1944
“The Golden Goblins” (Weird Tales, January 1944)
“Who Killed Sam Wright?” (The Spirit, February 27, 1944)
“Hoofs” (Weird Tales, March 1944)
“The Charity Ball” (The Spirit, March 5, 1944)
“The Sky Will Be Ours” (Super Science Stories, April 1944)
“Gambler’s Asteroid” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Spring 1944)
“The Letters of Cold Fire” (Weird Tales, May 1944)
“Warrior of Two Worlds” (Planet Stories, Summer 1944)
“Strangers on the Heights” (Startling Stories, Summer 1944)
“Ebony’s Piano Lesson” (The Spirit, June 4, 1944)
“The Cellini Dagger” (The Spirit, June 11, 1944)
“The Odor of Geraniums” (The Spirit, June 18, 1944)
“John Thunstone’s Inheritance” (Weird Tales, July 1944)
“The Treasure of S. S. Jackson” (The Spirit, July 7, 1944)
“Sorcery From Thule” (Weird Tales, September 1944)
“Tubbs and Burberry” (aka “The Greencrest Country Hotel”) (The Spirit, September 3, 1944)
“The Case of the Headless Burglar” (The Spirit, September 24, 1944)
“Let the Band Play Dixie” (Military Comics #33, October 1944)
“If Wishes Were Horses” (Military Comics #33, October 1944)
“Big Jake Gooley” (The Spirit, October 1, 1944)
“The Uncanny Cat” (The Spirit, October 8, 1944)
“The Music Box” (The Spirit, October 15, 1944)
“Kingololio” (The Spirit, October 22, 1944)
“The Secret of the Gold Hills” (The Spirit, October 27, 1944)
“Dead Man’s Hands” (Weird Tales, November 1944)
Letter Shonokin Lore (Weird Tales, November 1944)
“The Case of the Will O’Wisp Murders” (The Spirit, November 5, 1944)
“The Return of Danny Bibo” The Spirit, November 12, 1944)
“Cooter Creek” (The Spirit, November 19, 1944)
“Thirteen O’Clock” (The Spirit, December 3, 1944)
“The Heirs of Dubbs Dombey” (The Spirit, December 24, 1944)
“The Mystery of the Death Angel” (The Spirit, December 31, 1944)
1945
“Thorne on the Threshold” (Weird Tales, January 1945)
Letter: Warning! (Weird Tales, January 1945)
“The Shonokins” (Weird Tales, March 1945)
Letter: Not Beast Nor Man (Weird Tales, March 1945)
“The New Columbus” (The Spirit, March 4, 1945)
“The Masked Magician” (The Spirit, March 11, 1945)
“Prominent Executives Vanish” (The Spirit, March 18, 1945)
“Belle Trivet” (The Spirit, March 25, 1945)
“Beautiful Andrew” (The Spirit, April 1, 1945)
“Bond Bratton” (The Spirit, April 15, 1945)
“Diamonds and Rats” (The Spirit, April 22, 1945)
“The Dodies” (The Spirit, April 29, 1945)
“Blood From a Stone” (Weird Tales, May 1945)
“Cousin Dora’s Little Egbert” (The Spirit, May 6, 1945)
“Swampwater” (The Spirit, May 20, 1945)
“Mr. Exter” (The Spirit, May 27, 1945)
“Red Scandon” (The Spirit, June 3, 1945)
“Rosilind Ripsley” (The Spirit, June 10, 1945)
“The Country Cousin” (The Spirit, June 17, 1945)
“The Whitlock Diamond Caper” (The Spirit, June 24, 1945)
“The Dai Sword” (Weird Tales, July 1945)
“Case of the Murdering Tiger” (The Spirit, July 2, 1945)
“For the Love of Clara DaFoe” (The Spirit, July 9, 1945)
“Elbows and Cheesecake” (The Spirit, July 8, 1945)
“The Millionth Customer” (The Spirit, July 15, 1945)
“Caressa” (The Spirit, July 22, 1945)
“Mr. Grifty Goes Straight” (The Spirit, July 29, 1945)
“The Kuttup Shop”(The Spirit, August 5, 1945)
“Eye, Feets and Lock” (The Spirit, August 12, 1945)
“The Vickram Forgery” (The Spirit, August 19, 1945)
“Mobar’s Comet” (The Spirit, August 26, 1945)
“The Magic Drums of the Shonokins” (Police Comics #46, September 1945)
“Cookie” (The Spirit, September 2, 1945)
“The Durand Gang” (The Spirit, September 9, 1945)
“Madame Larna’s Crystal Ball” (The Spirit, September 16, 1945)
“Mr. Martin’s Pistols” (The Spirit, September 23, 1945)
“The Case of the Missing Undertaker” (The Spirit, September 30, 1945)
“Jason Ghor Is Innocent” (The Spirit, October 7, 1945)
“Jonas Dubrick’s Plan” (The Spirit, October 14, 1945)
“Nitro” (The Spirit, October 21, 1945)
“Death, South American Style” (The Spirit, October 28, 1945)
“Vaudeville Vinnie” (The Spirit, November 4, 1945)
“Triton and Josie” (The Spirit, November 11, 1945)
“Spelvin’s School For Actors” (The Spirit, November 18, 1945)
“The Alibi Factory” (The Spirit, December 2, 1945)
“The Strange Case of Two $5.00 Bills” (The Spirit, December 9, 1945)
“Derry Mortlock” (The Spirit, December 16, 1945)
1946
“Sin’s Doorway” (Weird Tales, January 1946)
Letter: Transference of Sin (Weird Tales, January 1946)
“Undermost” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1946)
“Twice Cursed” (Weird Tales, March 1946)
Letter: Re: Twice Cursed (Weird Tales, March 1946)
Romance in Black (June 1946)(as Gans T. Field)
“The Sleuth Scouts” (Boys’ Life, June 1946)
“Shonokin Town” (Weird Tales, July 1946)
Letter: Shoo Shoo Shonokin! (Weird Tales, July 1946)
The Solar Invasion (Startling Stories, Fall 1946)
“Meet the Author” (Startling Stories, Fall 1946)
“Frogfather” (Weird Tales, November 1946)
Letter: Here Come the Shonokins (Weird Tales, November 1946)
“Country of the Hair-Faces” (Boys’ Life, December 1946)
1947
“A Knife Between Brothers” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, February 1947)
“Tall Bram of Little Pigeon” (Boys’ Life, February 1947)
“A Star For a Warrior” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, April 1947) (Ellery Queen Award, Best Story)
“The Tongue Cannot Tell” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1947)
“Let’s Haunt a House” (Boys’ Life, October 1947)
A Double Life (1947)
Find My Killer (1947)
Artist Unknown
“The Timeless Tomorrow” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1947)
1948
The Mystery of Lost Valley (1948)
“The Leonardo Rondache” (Weird Tales, March 1948)
“Find My Killer” (Triple Detective Magazine, Spring 1948)
“Dhoh” (Weird Tales, July 1948)
“The Indian Sign” (Boys’ Life, November 1948)
1949
Giant in Gray: A Biography of Wade Hampton of South Carolina (1949)
“…Backward, O Time” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1949)
“Come Into My Parlor” (1949, The Girl With the Hungry Eyes and Other Stories)
“Why I Selected Space Station No. 1” (My Best Science Fiction Story, 1949)
Next time 1950-1959…
