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John the Balladeer
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781960241023
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: Oct 27 2023
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In 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
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