SEASERPENTS (Sea Serpents): Out of Darkness; Man Overboard; The Dakwa; The Kings by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Ace Books, New York
Published: 1989-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

The Dakwa

by

Manly Wade Wellman

The late Manly Wade Wellman was one of the finest modern practitioners of the "dark fantasy "or "supernatural horror" tale. He was probably best known for his stories about John the Minstrel or "Silver John," scary and vividly evocative tales set against the background of a ghost-and-demon haunted rural Appalachia that, in Wellman's hands, is as bizarre and beautiful as many another writer's entirely imaginary fantasy world. The "Silver John" stories have been collected in Who Fears the Devil, generally perceived as Wellman's best book. In recent years, there were "Silver John" novels as well: The Old Gods Waken, After Dark, The Lost and the Lurking, The Hanging Stones, and, most recently, Voice of the Mountain. Wellman's non-"Silver John" stories were assembled in the mammoth collection Worse Things Waiting, which won a World Fantasy Award as the Best Anthology/Collection of 1975. Wellman himself has won the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. He died in 1986 at the age of 82. His most recent book is the posthumously published collection Mountain Valley Stories.

Here he gives us the kind of story he did best: one lone, unflinching man pitted against evil, forced to rely only on his own brains and muscle and courage, face to face and grip to grip with the forces of darkness . . .

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