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Manly Wade Wellman held the course as a writer of juvenile historicals and adult non-fiction but occasionally sold a new story to the SF magazines. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, under Ed Ferman, was his publication of choice. 1963 saw the first collection of Silver John stories at Arkham House with Who Fears the Devil? The next would be ten years later with Worse Things Waiting at Karl Edward Wagner’s Carcosa Press. Both were illustrated by Lee Brown Coye. 1973-4 saw the Silver John movie, The Legend of Hillbilly John starring Hedges Capers to mixed reviews.
In the mid-1970s Manly moved away from books to short story writing again, with a Sword & Sorcery series in Swords Against Darkness starring Kardios of Atlantis. He wrote new horror fiction for small press magazines like Whispers and Shadows. Retired from active writing, he could dabble where his interests lie. He also produced a series of Sherlock Holmes SF tales with his son, Wade Wellman 1969-1975. Manly had moved to Chapel Hill, NC in the 1950s, but it was in the 1970s he began to collect around him young writers like David Drake, Karl Edward Wagner and others. Manly inspired the next generation of fantasy writers.
1960
Appomattox Road: Final Adventures of the Iron Scouts (1960)
Candle of the Wicked (1960)
Third String Center (1960) art Vernon Cramer
Harper’s Ferry: Prize of War (1960)
“The Hairy Thunderer” (F&SF, April 1960) as Levi Crow
1961
Island in the Sky (1961)
Many Were the Hearts (play)(1961)
“Let’s Haunt a House” (reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock’s Haunted Houseful (1961)
“Still Valley” (The Twilight Zone, November 24, 1961)
1962
Battle For King Mountain (1962)
Clash on the Catawba (1962)
Not at These Hands (1962)
Rifles at Ramsour’s Mill: A Tale of the Revolutionary War (1962)
The County of Moore, 1847-1947: A North Carolina Region’s Second Hundred Years (1962)
“Wonder As I Wander” (F&SF, March 1962)
1963
Settlement on Shocco: Adventures in Colonial Carolina (1963)
The River Pirates (1963)
The South Fork Rangers (1963)
Who Fears the Devil? (1963)
“Farther Down the Trail” (1963)
1964
Master of Scare Hollow (1964)
1965
Mystery at Bear Paw Gap (1965)
The Great Riverboat Race: A Tale of the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee (1965)
1966
Battle at Bear Paw Gap (1966)
The Specter of Bear Paw Gap (1966)
Jamestown Adventure (1966)
1968
Brave Horse: The Story of Janus (1968)
Carolina Pirate (1968)
1969
Frontier Reporter (1969)
Mountain Feud (1969)
“The Adventure of the Martian Client” (F&SF, December 1969) with Wade Wellman
1970
Napoleon of the West: A Story of the Aaron Burr Conspiracy (1970)
1971
Fast Break Five (1971)
1972
“Venus, Mars, and Baker Street” (F&SF, March 1972) with Wade Wellman
1973
Worse Things Waiting (1973) (World Fantasy Award, Best Collection/Anthology)
The Kingdom of Madison: A Southern Mountain Fastness and Its People (1973)
“A Witch For All Seasons” (Witchcraft & Sorcery #9, 1973)
“Dead Man’s Chair” (F&SF, October 1973)
“The Vampire in America” (Whispers #2, December 1973)
1974
The Story of Moore County: Two Centuries of a North Carolina Region (1974)
“50 Years of Weird Tales” (WT50: A Tribute to Weird Tales, 1974)
The Legend of Hillbilly John released February 1974
“Karl Edward Wagner’s Apostle of Blood” (Midnight Sun, 1974)
“Goodman’s Place” (F&SF, September 1974)
1975
“The Ghastly Priest Doth Reign” (F&SF, March 1975) (World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction)
“Sherlock Holmes Versus Mars” (F&SF, May 1975) with Wade Wellman
Sherlock Holmes’s War of the Worlds (1975) with Wade Wellman
“The Beasts That Perish” (Whispers 6-7, 1975)
1976
“The Petey Car” (Superhorror, 1976)
A City’s Culture: Painting, Music, Literature (Winston-Salem in History) (1976)
Winston-Salem in History: Industry and Commerce, 1766-1896 (1976)
“The Two Graves of Lill Warren” (The Supernatural Solution, 1976)
“Seabury Quinn” (The Skeleton Closet of Jules de Grandin, 1976)
Letter: More on Holmes’ Love Life (F&SF, January 1976)
“Where the Woodbine Twineth” (F&SF, October 1976)
1977
The Beyonders (1977)
“The Straggler From Atlantis” (Swords Against Darkness 1, 1977)
“The Dweller in the Temple” (Swords Against Darkness 2, 1977)
“The Dakwa” (Whispers, An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror, 1977)
Interview (Chacal #2, Spring 1977)
“Thinking About Lovecraft” (The Diversifier #20, May 1977)
“Caretaker” (F&SF, October 1977)
1978
Whom He May Devour (play)(Whispers 11/12, 1978)
“Keep Me Away”(Whispers 11/12, 1978)
“Witch Whispers From Stratford” (Whispers 11/12, 1978)
“Chorazin” (Whispers #11-12, 1978)
“Whom He May Devour” (Whispers #11-12, 1978)
“Ever the Faith Endures” (Years Best Horror 6, 1978) (Reprinted in Fantasy Tales, Summer 1980)
“The Guest of Dzinganji” (Swords Against Darkness 3, 1978)
“Hundred Years Gone” (F&SF, March 1978)
“The Oath of Agha Junghaz (Part 8 of 17)” (Fantasy Crossroads #13, June 1978)
1979
“Chastel” (Year’s Best Horror VII, 1979)
“The Edge of the World” (Swords Against Darkness 4, 1979)
The Old Gods Waken (1979)
“The Seeker in the Fortress” (Heroic Fantasy, 1979)
“Trill Coster’s Burden” (Whispers 2, 1979)
“The Spring” (Shadows 2, 1979)
“Toad’s Foot” (F&SF, April 1979)
In the 1980s, Manly gears up for a second big revival….
