Owls Hoot in the Daytime and Other Omens
Note! John the Balladeer (1988) also contains all Silver John short stories.
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 most famous character.
Contents:
- Introduction by Karl Edward Wagner
- O Ugly Bird!
- The Desrick on Yandro
- Vandy, Vandy
- One Other
- Call Me From the Valley
- The Little Black Train
- Shiver in the Pines
- Walk Like A Mountain
- On the Hills and Everywhere
- Old Devlins Was A-Waiting
- Nine Yards of Other Cloth
- Wonder As I Wander
- Farther Down the Trail
- Trill Coster’s Burden
- The Spring
- Owls Hoot in the Daytime
- Can These Bones Live?
- Nobody Ever Goes There
- Where Did She Wander?
- Afterword by Gerald W. Page
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Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman (1903–1986) was an American writer. 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. In the later 1920s, during the silent film era, Wellman wrote movie reviews for the Wichita Beacon. 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.
The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman
The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
