![]() ![]() ![]() As a young man, he earned his stripes writing for pulp magazines like Astounding Stories, Unknown, and, most memorably, Weird Tales, where he first introduced his erudite, monster-hunting men of action, Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant and John Thunstone. Over five decades, he wrote dozens of novels and stories of all types, but he especially excelled at the weird horror story, particularly those of the "supernatural investigator" variety. Manly Wade Wellman may be one of the very best writers of dark fantasy fiction that hardly anyone knows about. ![]() Wellman felt like some sort of a private little discovery to me, and from then on, I tried to get my hands on nearly anything else written by him I could find.not always an easy task. Intrigued by the cover and the synopsis, I took the book home and was instantly captivated by its story of a folksy hero named John, whose pure heart and silver-stringed guitar help him defeat a couple of modern day druids up to no good in the remote Appalachian mountains. I was browsing the shelves of my local library when I came across a copy of The Old Gods Waken. I remember my first encounter, nearly 30 years ago, with the wonderful, weird fiction of Manly Wade Wellman. ![]()
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