The Selected Stories of Manley Wade Wellman, Vol. 5 by Manly Wade Wellman

I believed we talked 19 th-century mystery literature. Same thing when I first met Peter Straub. At no point did spurting blood, unspeakable horrors, or ghouls from beyond come up in that conversation. We talked writing, baseball, family, blues music, and cars. It was the year he was receiving the honor of Grandmaster.

I had a lovely conversation with him and his charming wife, Tabby, at the Edgar Awards banquet back in 2007. Stephen King, for example, is a pretty nice chap. In fact, except in a few notable cases, the writer is seldom an obvious champion of the genre in which he or she writes. Not that these more extreme writers are dangers to society or are antisocial misanthropes who should be on watch lists. On the other hand, some writers are on the nice and safe end of that spectrum, and others are way the hell over into the ‘there’s something wrong with that one’ zone.

So, on one hand, anyone who sits alone in a room, making up outrageous lies in the hopes someone pays them to do so, and acts very much like the semi-benign god of their own universe is a bit odd. WordFire Classics Foreword: Writers Are Weird Jonathan Maberry Join our WordFire Press Readers Group for new projects, and giveaways. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. If you would like to share the ebook edition with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. The ebook may not be re-sold or given away. The ebook edition of this book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination, or, if real, used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written permission of the copyright holder, except where permitted by law. These stories are in the public domain.Īll rights reserved. Original publication information at end of book. Edited by Jonathan Maberry and Kaye Lynne Boothįoreword copyright © 2022 by Jonathan Maberry

The Selected Stories of Manley Wade Wellman, Vol. 5 by Manly Wade Wellman