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In
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Issue:
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August
1, 2023
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FINAL NOTICE
on ordering
the unpublished
Wellman story,
"Not All a
Dream"
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Status on THE
COMPLETE JOHN
THE BALLADEER
(it's a
good-un'!)
• Nice racks!
• • •
FINAL NOTICE • •
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The
cut-off date
is August
10th to
place your
order for
“Not All a Dream”
an unpublished
Manly Wade Wellman
story
to
be shipped
with preorders
of
THE COMPLETE JOHN
THE BALLADEER
Haffner
Press is
pleased to
announce the
upcoming
release of an
unpublished
story by Manly Wade Wellman. "Not All a
Dream"
opens with
poet/politician
Lord Byron (1788-1824) musing
over the
status of his
literary canon
in years to
come. Admiring
the lasting
legacy of John
Milton,
Byron accepts
an offer to
learn the true
place of his
works in
centuries
hence—a
nightmare
vision gained
by traveling
into a
dangerous
future . . .
How
can you get a
copy of this
story? Well,
if you've
placed a
preorder for
Manly Wade
Wellman's
two-volume
omnibus
THE
COMPLETE JOHN
THE BALLADEER,
then you're
already set to
receive it!
(Congratulations,
you wise,
prescient
reader!)
Otherwise, you
have between
now and August
10, 2023
to preorder THE
COMPLETE JOHN
THE BALLADEER
and
receive "Not
All a Dream"
as an
exclusive
chapbook at no
additional
charge.
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Manly
Wade Wellman's
“Not All a Dream”
a
chapbook
shipping
exclusively
with
preordered
copies of:
THE
COMPLETE
JOHN THE BALLADEER
Cover
art by
Raymond
Swanland
Interior
art by Tim
Kirk
Two
560+ page
Smythe-sewn
Hardcovers
•
19 stories, 5
novels,
erudite and
informative
essays from
Wellman's
friends and
editors, PLUS
the heretofore
unpublished
treatment for
the unwritten
sixth "Silver
John" novel, The
Valley So Low.
Lastly, we
found the
perfect way to
give Manly get
the last word.
No spoilers,
but have your
whiskey
glasses handy.
CONTENTS
VOLUME
ONE:
"Manly
Wade Wellman:
The Voice of
the Mountains"
by Stephen
Jones
"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"
"Then I Wasn't
Alone"
"You Know the
Tale of Hoph"
"Blue Monkey"
"The Stars
Down There"
"Find the
Place
Yourself"
"I Can't Claim
That"
"Who Else
Could I Count
On"
"John's My
Name"
"Why They're
Named That"
"None Wiser
for the Trip"
"Nary Spell"
"Trill
Coster's
Burden"
"The Spring"
The
Old Gods Waken (1979)
"Owls Hoot in
the Daytime"
After
Dark (1980)
Afterword by Hedges
Capers
VOLUME
TWO:
“They Say He
Walks the
Mountains Even
Now” by Patrick
J. LoBrutto
"Can These
Bones Live?"
"Nobody Ever
Goes There"
The
Lost and the
Lurking (1981)
The
Hanging Stones (1982)
The
Voice of the
Mountain (1984)
"Where Did She
Wander?"
***Outline
for unwritten
"Silver John"
novel, The
Valley So Low (1985)
"Wellman
Interview" by
Karl Edward
Wagner
"Eulogy" by Karl
Edward Wagner
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STATUS
ON THE • • •
• • •
COMPLETE
JOHN THE
BALLADEER
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The
Text Blocks,
the Endsheets,
and the Dustjackets
for both
volumes have
been printed!
The Binding
Date is for
later this
month (and I'm
not telling at
this point!).
Click the link
below for a Flickr
Slideshow
of the guts of
these volumes:
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NICE RACKS • •
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Back
in April, we
posted on Facebook
and Twitter (or whatever it's called this
week) an image
of unassembled
pallet racks
destined to
hold cartons
of books.
Subsequent
medical
annoyances
prevented any
progress on
assembling
this material.
Despite
current status
as "walking
wounded," yer
'umble Poobah
spent many an
hour last
Sunday
crouching,
lugging,
swearing,
knocking,
hammering,
bitching, and
swinging like
a Space
Monkey,
single-handedly
putting
together these
32 linear feet
of pallet
racking.
You're
welcome.
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