The only Manly Wade Wellman I've read is his Silver John stories. These are rather good fantasies of a wandering balladeer in the deep Appalachians. The stories themselves are good, but what I find special about them is their concrete sense of *place*. From the speech to beliefs to descriptions, you feel that it *really* is taking place in the southern U.S.A. Also recommended is "Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds", a witty tale with Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger in the setting of H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds". It's a lot better if you've read the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & H. G. Wells, of course. [C] == Short Story Collection [CP] == Chapbook (a very short book, or pamphlet) as == Originally published using this pen name includes == This book wholely includes the other /John arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com youdontlookliketheproductofmillionsofyearsofevolution-ly ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wellman, Manly Wade [Angola, U.S.A., 5/21/1905-4/5/1986] [father of Wade Wellman] The Silver John Series: Who Fears the Devil? [1963] [C] The Old Gods Waken [1979] After Dark [1980] The Lost and the Lurking [1981] The Hanging Stones [1982] The Voice of the Mountain [1984] John the Balladeer [1988] [C] [incl. "Who Fears the Devil?"] John Thunstone Series: What Dreams May Come [1983] The School of Darkness [1985] The Invading Asteroid [1932] [CP] Romance in Black [1946] [as Gans T. Field] Sojarr of Titan [1949] The Beasts from Beyond [1950] The Devil's Planet [1951] Twice in Time [1957, 1988] The Dark Destroyers [1959] Giants from Eternity [1959] Island in the Sky [1961] The Solar Invasion [1968] Worse Things Waiting [1973] [C] The Beyonders [1977] Lonely Vigils [1981] [C] Cahena [1986] The Valley So Low [1987] [C] Wellman, Manly Wade & Wellman, Wade Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds [1975]