Owls Hoot in the Daytime & Other Omens is the 5th and final volume of Night Shade Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman." This volume contains all of the John the Balladeer stories (sometimes better known as Silver John), Manly's most famous character. Contents: * Introduction by Karl Edward Wagner * O Ugly Bird! * The Desrick on Yandro * Vandy, Vandy * One Other * Call Me From the Valley * The Little Black Train * Shiver in the Pines * Walk Like A Mountain * On the Hills and Everywhere * Old Devlins Was A-Waiting * Nine Yards of Other Cloth * Wonder As I Wander * Farther Down the Trail * Trill Coster's Burden * The Spring * Owls Hoot in the Daytime * Can These Bones Live? * Nobody Ever Goes There * Where Did She Wander? * Afterword by Gerald W. Page
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Format:Hardcover
An extraordinary collection of stories that is well worth reading. If you can find the long out of print paperback collection titled John the Balladeer, you'll find the same tales.
Each one is a tale where right and justice prevail or perhaps, more accurately, where evil rebounds upon the practioner thereof. "O Ugly Bird!" is perhaps the most famous and is certainly a wonderful introduction to Silver John. "Vandy,Vandy" is among my favorites (yes, children, US quarters were made of silver at one time). "On the Hills and Everywhere" is a grand and too long ignored Christmas story.
While somewhat dated, the hero of one story is a young college student just back from the Korean war, they're are all entertaining "backwoods yarns".
By Paula Berman
Format:Hardcover
This 5th volume of the series has the same contents as the paperback version of John the Balladeer, even including the introduction, so unlike the first four volumes it won't be new material to most of Wellman's fans. It is nice to see John's stories in a binding befitting their quality, though. (One tiny niggle: I sort of wish they'd used silver instead of gilt on the cover of this one.) The series in general is well done, nicely bound, and brings together a lot of material that is both worth reading and otherwise difficult to find.
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John the Balladeer
May 12 2003
By James M. Holtzclaw II
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Format:Hardcover
An extraordinary collection of stories that is well worth reading. If you can find the long out of print paperback collection titled John the Balladeer, you'll find the same tales.
Each one is a tale where right and justice prevail or perhaps, more accurately, where evil rebounds upon the practioner thereof. "O Ugly Bird!" is perhaps the most famous and is certainly a wonderful introduction to Silver John. "Vandy,Vandy" is among my favorites (yes, children, US quarters were made of silver at one time). "On the Hills and Everywhere" is a grand and too long ignored Christmas story.
While somewhat dated, the hero of one story is a young college student just back from the Korean war, they're are all entertaining "backwoods yarns".
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Appalachian Gothic Gold
Sep 7 2004
By Doctor Mabuse
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Format:Hardcover
Volume Five of editor John Pelen's THE SELECTED STORIES OF MANLY WADE WELLMAN rounds off the permanent edition of Wellman's short supernatural fiction with a complete collection of the popular Silver John the Balladeer tales originally published (mostly) in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. These deliciously spooky and atmospheric mood pieces combine the rich flavor of authentic regional folklore with Wellman's sterling imagination and storytelling gifts.
John Pelen is owed a debt of gratitude for this five-volume collection which establishes Wellman, who was one of the best of the original WEIRD TALES writers, in the ranks of such luminaries as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgeson, Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft.
Wellman's several Silver John novels also deserve to be collected in such attractive form.
John Pelen is owed a debt of gratitude for this five-volume collection which establishes Wellman, who was one of the best of the original WEIRD TALES writers, in the ranks of such luminaries as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgeson, Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft.
Wellman's several Silver John novels also deserve to be collected in such attractive form.
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John's back, and he's still singing
Mar 24 2004
By Paula Berman
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This 5th volume of the series has the same contents as the paperback version of John the Balladeer, even including the introduction, so unlike the first four volumes it won't be new material to most of Wellman's fans. It is nice to see John's stories in a binding befitting their quality, though. (One tiny niggle: I sort of wish they'd used silver instead of gilt on the cover of this one.) The series in general is well done, nicely bound, and brings together a lot of material that is both worth reading and otherwise difficult to find.
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