Volume 1 (Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations) collects Wellman's John Thunstone and Lee Corbet stories. These stories (written between 1943 and 1979) combine the mystical and horrific with traditional southern folk tales and legends. At the same time, these stories reveal a post-World War 2 modernism that make them much more then pulp romanticism. The paranoia and cynicism of modern weird icons such as the X-files may well have had their genesis in the pulp musings of Manly Wade Wellman. Indeed the intensely driven, idealistic occult investigator John Thunstone could be a pulp/noir stand in for Fox Mulder.

This work will be issued in a fine collector's hardcover state, with 24 illustrations. Edited by John Pelan, illustrated by Kenneth Waters.

Contents:

Introduction

The Third Cry to Legba

The Golden Goblins

Hoofs

The Letters of Cold Fire

John Thunstone's Inheritance

Sorcery from Thule

The Dead Man's Hand

Thorne of the Threshold

The Shonokins

Blood from a Stone

The Dai Sword

Twice Cursed

Shonokin Town

The Leonard Rondache

The Last Grave of Lill Warren

Rouse Him Not

The Dakwa

The Beasts That Perish

Willow He Walk

A Witch for All Seasons

Chastel