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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherValancourt Books
ISBN-101960241028
ISBN-139781960241023
eBay Product ID (ePID)22065849570
Product Key Features
Book TitleJohn the Balladeer
Number of Pages262 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Horror
GenreFiction
AuthorManly Wade Wellman
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisIn John the Balladeer, Manly Wade Wellman created one of the great characters in all of horror and fantasy literature. Armed with his silver-stringed guitar and an endless trove of folk songs, John travels the backwoods of Appalachia, battling supernatural evil with his own brand of down-home charm and endless resourcefulness. In these tales, John wanders the Southern mountains, encountering hoodoo men and witch women, strange supernatural beasts, malevolent spirits, and even George Washington's ghost. Edited by horror legend Karl Edward Wagner, this volume contains the complete John the Balladeer stories in their original, unaltered form, as they first appeared in magazines and anthologies between 1951 and 1987. Also featured are a foreword by Wellman's friend and literary executor David Drake and an introduction by Wagner. "Just as J. R. R. Tolkien brilliantly created a modern British myth cycle, so did Manly Wade Wellman give to us an imaginary world of purely American fact, fantasy and song." - Karl Edward Wagner "This is the real thing-a book of haunting fantasies with their roots going down deep into the American folk tradition." - Robert Silverberg Cover by Ilan Sheady