Who Fears the Devil by Manly Wade Wellman

If you don’t believe it, well, I don’t have a gun out to you to make you stop and hark at it. About what I tell, if you believe it you might could get some good thing out of it. What’s long time ago left off happening outside still goes on here, and the tales the mountain folks tell sound truer here than outside. Up these heights and down these hollows you’d best go expecting anything. The fact that he spent much of his later life in North Carolina is evident in the authenticity of the Silver John tales the scenery, atmosphere, characters, and - especially - the language featured in the stories have the ring of truth and a sense of life experience. Wellman’s career spanned over six decades, during which time he published numerous short stories and more than a dozen novels, and also contributed to mid-century publications like Weird Tales and Wonder Stories.

Whatever the challenge, he unfailingly meets it with genuine affability, a song at the ready, and a firm belief in the power of good over evil. Our marketplace offers millions of titles from sellers worldwide. In addition to country folk, John frequently encounters various forms of supernatural phenomena and the occasional cryptid. Buy Who Fears the Devil by Manly Wade Wellman (ISBN: 9781601251886) online at Alibris. Toting his silver-stringed guitar, John spends his days hiking the mountains of Appalachia in a continuous quest to “find out things”, and to track down any rumored but elusive folk songs he has yet to master. Most of the collected tales were originally published in the 1950’s, and each of them concerns Manly Wade Wellman’s most well-known creation: Silver John, the balladeer. Who Fears the Devil by Manly Wade Wellman - Dell 19776 Publication Year. immediately evoke the rustic yet mysterious nature of the material. A quick glance at the table of contents reveals that the titles of these short stories - “O Ugly Bird!”, “Shiver in the Pines”, “Old Devilns Was A-Waiting”, etc.