John the Balladeer

by Manly Wade Wellman

Paperback, 1988

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Available

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Fic SF Wellman

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Publication

Baen Books (1988), Paperback

Description

Travel with Silver John on his magical journeys--feel the power that flows from his silver-strung guitar. Meet a reanimated skeleton, a nameless, lonesome nasty in a cave, and other enchanted, chilling inhabitants of the back hills of North Carolina. The only complete collection of Silver John

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LibraryThing member Lyndatrue
Over the years, I've read most (perhaps all) of the Wellman fiction concerning the North Carolina mountains, and John the Balladeer. This collection is representative of those stories (but merely that; you should still read others). I loved the evocative language, and had trouble remembering that
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this was fiction, and not just someone's memories.

This collection was published not long after his death, and I bought it from love, and for his memory. It contains the very last Silver John story, "Where Did She Wander."
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Original publication date

1988

Physical description

8.1 inches

ISBN

0671654187 / 9780671654184

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Silver John

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Fic SF Wellman

Rating

(39 ratings; 4.1)
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