If you missed Part 5…
The 1970s saw Wellman finishing his Sherlock Holmes Versus the War of the Worlds series with his son, Wade, as well as the last of his historical non-fiction books. In 1973, Karl Edward Wagner becgan Carcosa Press to publish Manly’s best work with new illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. (This would lead to Wagner writing his best loved story, “Sticks”.) In the late 1970s, Wellman wrote his first true Sword & Sorcery series about Kardios of Atlantis. The 1980s proved to be a renaissance of new Fantasy with the Silver John novels and new stories for the small press Horror magazines like Stuart David Schiff’s Whispers, Charles l. Grant’s Shadows and the Robert M. Price magazines. Manly passed away on April 5, 1986.
After Manly’s death collections of his work appeared from time to time along with odd pieces found here and there. His best stories were collected in the 2000s with his legacy firmly established in Fantasy & Science Fiction circles.
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)
“Karl 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)
“Appendix: A letter From Dr. Watson” (1975) (with Wade Wellman)
“George E. Challenger Versus Mars” (1975) (with Wade Wellman)
“Sherlock Holmes’ war of the Worlds” (1975) (with Wade Wellman)
“The Adventure of the Crystal Egg” (1975) (with Wade Wellman)
Who Fears the Devil? (reprinted 1975)
“The Beasts That Perish” (Whispers 6-7, 1975)
1976
A City’s Culture: Painting, Music, Literature (Winston-Salem in History) (1976)
Winston-Salem in History: Industry and Commerce, 1766-1896 (1976)
“The Last Grave of Lill Warren” (reprinted in The Supernatural Solution, 1976)
“Human Sacrifice” (Omniumgathum, 1976)
“Memnon” (Omniumgathum, 1976)
“Theseus” (Omniumgathum, 1976)
“Two Peoples” (Omniumgathum, 1976)
“The Petey Car” (Superhorror, 1976)
“Seabury Quinn” (The Skeleton Closet of Jules de Grandin, 1976)
“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
“Ever the Faith Endures” (Years Best Horror VI, 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)
Whom He May Devour (play)(Whispers 11-12, October 1978)
“Chorazin” (Whispers #11-12, October 1978)
“Keep Me Away” (Whispers #11-12, October 1978)
“Whom He May Devour” (Whispers #11-12, October 1978)
“Witch Whispers From Stratford” (Whispers #11-12, October 1978)
1979
“The Edge of the World” (Swords Against Darkness 4, 1979)
The Old Gods Waken (1979)
“The Seeker in the Fortress” (Heroic Fantasy, 1979)
“Chastel” (Year’s Best Horror VII, 1979)
“Trill Coster’s Burden” (Whispers 2, 1979)
“The Spring” (Shadows 2, 1979)
“Toad’s Foot” (F&SF, April 1979)
1980
After Dark (1980) (Locus Award)
“Owls Hoot in the Daytime” (Dark Forces, 1980)
“Yare” (New Terrors, 1980)
Who Fears the Devil? (reprinted 1980)
Interview with Jeffrey M. Elliot (Fantasy Newsletter #22, March 1980)
“What of the Night” (F&SF, March 1980)
“The Derleth Connection” (The August Derleth Society Newsletter, September 1980)
Letter (Fantasy Tales V3n6, Summer 1980)
1981
Lonely Vigils (1981)
The Lost and the Lurking (1981)
“Nobody Ever Goes There” (Weird Tales #3, 1981)
Interview with Darrell Schweitzer (Amazing Stories, March 1981)
“Can These Bones Live?” (Sorcerer’s Apprentice #11, Summer 1981)
“Monsters Here at Home” (Sorcerer’s Apprentice #12, Fall 1981)
1982
The Hanging Stones (1982)
“Rouse Him Not” (Years’ Best Horror Stories XI, 1982)
Wellman-Boucher Correspondence (The Eureka Years, 1982)
“Manly Wade Wellman” (Amazing Stories, January 1982)
“The Lost and the Lurking” (excerpt) (Amazing Stories, January 1982)
“Why is the Horror Genre Frowned Upon by the Literary Establishment?” (American Fantasy, February 1982)
1983
“Arimetta” (1983)
“Willow He Walk” (1983, World Fantasy 1983: Sixty Years of Weird Tales)
“Along About Sundown” (Whispers 19-20, October 1983)
1984
The Voice of the Mountain (1984)
Portrait by Patti Perret (Faces of Fantasy, 1984)
1985
1986
Cahena (1986)
“The Love of Oolana” (Pulse Pounding Adventure Stories, December 1986)
“The Slaughter of the Gods” (Heroic Visions II, 1986)
Letter (Fantasy Review, February 1986)
Letter (Locus #302, March 1986) (with Frances Wellman)
“Murder in Silhouette” (Risque Stories #4, October 1986) (as Wade Wells)
“Spirit Fangs” (Shudder Stories #5, December 1986)
1987
The Valley So Low (1987)
“Lamia” (1987)
“Rock, Rock” (1987)
“Where Did She Wander?” (Whisper 23-24, October 1987)
“The Beautiful and the Damp” (Risque Stories #5, March 1987)
1988
John the Balladeer (1988) (Locus Award)
“Farther Down the Trail” (1988)
“Rouse Him Not” Adapted for Monsters, December 1988
Twice in Time (1988)
“Manly Wade Wellman, Summed It All Up When He Observed …” (Remembering Derleth, 1988)
1989
“Murder in Silhouette” (reprinted in Pulp Magazine #1, March 1989)
1990
“Interior Dialogue” (The Tome #6, 1990)
1995
“Finger of Halugra” (Deathrealm, Spring 1995)
2000 and Beyond
Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations (2000)
The Devil is Not Mocked and Other Warnings (2001)
Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales (2001)
Sin’s Doorway and Other Ominous Entrances (2003)
Owls Hoot in the Daytime and Other Omens (2003)
Stranger on the Heights (2004)
Interview with Stephen Jones (Conversations with the Weird Tales Circle, 2009)
Who Fears the Devil? The Complete Silver John (2010)
Battle in the Dawn: The Complete Hok the Mighty (2011)
The Complete John Thunstone (2012)
“Reflections on Science Fiction” (Windy City Pulp Stories #16, 2016)
Who Fears the Devil? (reprinted 2016)
My own connection to Manly Wade Wellman is small. I wrote Karl Edward Wagner in the late 1980s asking about Mythos stuff. Karl became representative for Manly and his wife, Frances. My fondest memory is Karl telling me how he would visit Frances after Manly’s passing, and share some KFC and whiskey with her.
