About this title: "Owls Hoot in the Daytime and 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. The contents are: Introduction by Karl Edward Wagner, "O Ugly Bird!", ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781892389237ISBN:1892389231
Edition: F First Edition Private Press
Binding: H Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781892389237ISBN:1892389231
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 245 pages. Contents: Call Me From the Valley / Can These Bones Live? / Farther Down the Trail / Nine Yards of Other Cloth / Nobody Ever Goes There / O Ugly Bird! / Old Devlins Was A-Waiting / On the Hills and Everywhere / One Other / Owls Hoot in the Daytime / Shiver in the Pines / The Desrick on Yandro / The Little Black Train / The Spring / Trill Coster's Burden / Vandy, Vandy / Walk Like a Mountain / Where Did She Wander? / Wonder as I Wander. Hoot in the ... read more
Edition: First Edition Private Press
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781892389237ISBN:1892389231
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Signed by editor John Pelan ONLY. 245 pages. Contents: Call Me From the Valley / Can These Bones Live? / Farther Down the Trail / Nine Yards of Other Cloth / Nobody Ever Goes There / O Ugly Bird! / Old Devlins Was A-Waiting / On the Hills and Everywhere / One Other / Owls Hoot in the Daytime / Shiver in the Pines / The Desrick on Yandro / The Little Black Train / The Spring / Trill Coster's Burden / Vandy, Vandy / Walk Like a Mountain / Where Did She Wander? / ... read more
Edition: F First Edition Private Press
Binding: H Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781892389237ISBN:1892389231
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Signed by editor John Pelan ONLY. 245 pages. Contents: Call Me From the Valley / Can These Bones Live? / Farther Down the Trail / Nine Yards of Other Cloth / Nobody Ever Goes There / O Ugly Bird! / Old Devlins Was A-Waiting / On the Hills and Everywhere / One Other / Owls Hoot in the Daytime / Shiver in the Pines / The Desrick on Yandro / The Little Black Train / The Spring / Trill Coster's Burden / Vandy, Vandy / Walk Like a Mountain / Where Did She Wander? / ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books, San Francisco
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781892389237ISBN:1892389231
Description: As New. No Jacket. First edition. Collects 19 stories, plus and introduction and afterword. Gold gilt decorated brown "leather" binding, 245 pages, frontispiece portrait of the author. New copy [not issued in Dust Wrapper]. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: NIGHT SHADE BOOKS
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781892389237ISBN:1892389231
Description: New. 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... read more
"Manly Wade Wellman first grabbed my attention with a series of paperbacks in the early 1980's, such as THE OLD GODS WAKEN, AFTER DARK, and THE LOST AND THE LURKING. They were set in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina and centered on a character called John, who, with his silver-stringed guitar, wandered though harrowing adventures involving folk magic and music, monsters, witches, and the sometimes treacherous, sometimes honorable but always memorable mountain folk of the Carolinas.
Later, I found out that these novels were based on a series of short stories featured in the 1930s through the 1950s in such magazines as WEIRD TALES, ASTOUNDING, and WONDER STORIES.
There is an amazing sense of place and character in these tales, not to mention a high-grade Weird factor. Also integral is a sense of moral fortitude that isn't preachy and which provides a great deal of power and momentum to the plot. And those characters... whether human or inhuman, who can forget the Behinder, the Gardinel, or the beautiful Evadare!
Wellman also wrote a much, much more on a variety of topics, ranging from historical non-fiction to young adult novels, not to mention a number of well-remembered weird tales about the playboy occultist John Thunstone and the Van Helsing-like Judge Pursuivant.
Quite an amazing writer! Night Shade Books has released a beautiful 5-volume hardcover set of his weird fiction that is worth every penny. OWLS HOOT IN THE DAYTIME collects the Silver John short stories. I can't recommend it enough.
TRIVIA: Wellman also wrote the first issue of the original CAPTAIN MARVEL comic book, and was a ghost writer for Will Eisner's groundbreaking THE SPIRIT weekly comic strip."
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