The Hanging Stones by Manly Wade Wellman

Owls Hoot in the Daytime and Other Omens (2003) (John the Balladeer stories).

Sin’s Doorway and Other Ominous Entrances (2003).Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales (2001) (Judge Pursuivant and Sergeant Jaeger stories).The Devil is Not Mocked and Other Warnings (2001).The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations (2000) (John Thunstone and Lee Cobbett stories).The Collected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman:.The Valley So Low: Southern Mountain Stories (1987) (Ed.Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (1975).Worse Things Waiting (1973) (collection) (Winner, World Fantasy Award for Best Collection, 1975).The Solar Invasion (1968) ( Captain Future novel).Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers: A Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction, L.Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Vol.2.3 John Thunstone anthologies and novels.He received many awards, including the World Fantasy Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award. Wellman was a long-time resident of North Carolina. After graduating from Wichita Municipal University (now Wichita State University) in Kansas, he went on to receive a bachelor of laws degree from Columbia University. He was of partial Native American ancestry. Three of Wellman's most famous reappearing protagonists are Silver John, aka John the Balladeer, the wandering backwoods minstrel with a silver-stringed guitar the elderly ' occult detective' Judge Pursuivant and the playboy-adventurer John Thunstone. He also contributed to the writing of the comic book The Spirit while the franchise's creator, Will Eisner, was serving in the US military during World War II. In the late 1920s, during the silent film era, Wellman wrote movie reviews for the Wichita Beacon. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction. Manly Wade Wellman (– April 5, 1986) was an American writer.

The Hanging Stones by Manly Wade Wellman