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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781892389213
ISBN number: 1892389215
Label: Night Shade Books
Manufacturer: Night Shade Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 300
Printing Date: November 01, 2001
Publishing house: Night Shade Books
Sale Popularity Level: 245679
Studio: Night Shade Books
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Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales is the 3rd volume of Night Shade Books' five volume 'Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman.' This volume is made up of eight novella length stories. It reprints Wellman's 'Judge Pursivant' and 'Sergeant Jaeger' stories, as well as a lost classic that has not been reprinted since its original publication in Strange Stories, in 1939. In addition, it features an introduction by Wellman's long time friend, Stephen Jones, who provides a heartwarming bit of historical perspective on Wellman, and the influential shadow that his work as cast over the genre. Contents: * Introduction by Stephen Jones * Fearful Rock * Coven * Toad's Foot * For the Love of a Witch * The Hairy Ones Shall Dance * The Black Drama * The Dreadful Rabbits * The Half-Haunted * Some Notes on the Texts by John Pelan
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This is a volume (3) in the five-volume "Selected Stories of Manley Wade Wellman" published by Night Shade Books. The series reprints Wellman's weird short stories and novellas originally published in magazines such as the famed "Weird Tales;" the full-length books are not included.
Wellman favored heroic characters conquering evil; his most famous creation, John the Balladeer (or "Silver John") stars in the volume V collection "Owls Hoot in the Daytime." This volume contains eight novella-length stories featuring Sergeant Jaeger ("Fearful Rock," "Coven," and "Toad's Foot") and Judge Pursuivant ("The Hairy Ones Shall Dance," "The Black Drama," "The Dreadful Rabbits," and "The Half-Haunted") as well as a historical fiction set in the Jamestown colony, "For the Love of a Witch."
Jaeger is a former Union sergeant who, like many Wellman heroes, acts as a sort of mentor and savior of characters who become embroiled in occult difficulties, in this case in the post-Civil War period. Pursuivant is a sort of 'elder-occultsman' who performs the same role in a "contemporary" (1950s - '60s) time period.
Manley Wade Wellman's concerns are very different from Lovecraft, C.A. Smith, or Robert E. Howard. Wellman's main theme is almost always the power of good and the inferiority of evil; his stories are more occult adventure than horror per se. They rely heavily (and wonderfully) on setting and characterization. If you like these stories, be sure to try the ones featuring Silver John (Wellman's best IMHO), and you'll certainly like Volume I, "The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations."
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I had read a couple of his Silver John books, but didn't like them much. I did come across the novella, "The Black Drama" in a collection of horror stories and I absolutely fell in love with it.
It featured an occult investigator named Judge Pursuivant. The introduction mentioned that he was in some other stories as well.
So that was the main reason I got this book, for those additional Judge Pursuivant stories. Unfortunately, the other Pursuivant stories aren't that good, and there are only 3 of them. Two are just really short, one of which is really a comedy piece. The other long one doesn't really star him, except at the very end, and is mostly on spiritualism.
However, the other character stories in the book, about Sgt Jaeger, a Civil War sergeant turned preacher and occult batller, are quite good. In particular the one the book is named after, Fearful Rock. But there are only 3 of those stories.
Really, it makes me wish he had written more about these characters, who I find far more interesting than his more popular characters.
There's also a long lost tale of his, set around the early colonization of America by the English. Interesting and colorful read, but the ending left me a bit cold.
The physical quality of the book is outstanding. I guess it should, given the price, but still, really excellent.
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Anything by Manly Wade Wellman is worth reading. This is no exception. He was so great at regional horror as well as traditional horror and even Lovecraftian horror. Please, if you love good horror, get all 5 of Wellman's books from Night Shade Books. They are all well bound, good looking books and they all have Wellman's wonderful prose.
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This is a wonderful book from Night Shade Books. They always put in such loving care to their products. I love the bindings, the paper, and the typeset. Overall, lovely.
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