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Worse Things Waiting is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer Manly Wade Wellman, with illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. It was released in 1973 by Carcosa in an edition of 2,867 copies, of which 536 pre-ordered copies were signed by the author and artist.
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Four years after the events of Downward to Darkness, Amy Miniter has returned to Mt. Tabor, Connecticut--and has been identified by local Satanist Howard Ashcroft as a likely vessel for the reincarnation of 19th century witch Mirdath Hodgson. Meanwhile, hack writer Martin Paige has come to town to do a true crime story about the Mt. Tabor massacre-...
Amy Miniter, a 20-year-old with a "dreamy nature." When she was a sophomore in high school, she survived the Mt. Tabor Massacre, which took the life of her mother, her only remaining parent. She's...Martin Paige, a hack writer from New York City. (He has an address on Great Jones Street in Manhattan's East Village.) He's described as "a bum living by his wits, one step ahead of lawyers, loansh...Mordred Glendower, a wizard born near Cardiff, Wales, in 1560. He was John Dee's secretary when that historic wizard translated the Necronomicon. He later moved to Salem, Massachusetts, fleeing fro...Mirdath Hodgson, Mordred's daughter. She combined "her father's pride, unsociability, and intellectual acidity" with "a streak of willful viciousness" and "stunning beauty." At the age of 14, she k...Worse Things Waiting, like Downward to Darkness, is set in the imaginary town of Mt. Tabor, Connecticut. It seems to be in the northwestern part of the state; Mansfield is its high-school football rival, and a character in Downward to Darknesslistens to a Willimantic radio station. It's described as "snuggling with its church steeple and iron bridg...
May 17, 2018 · Worse Things Waiting Paperback – May 17, 2018. by Manly Wade Wellman (Author), Lee Brown Coye (Illustrator) 4.6 83 ratings. See all formats and editions. World Fantasy Award. Winner, 1975 - Best Anthology/Collection. Hardcover. $96.50 15 Used from $63.44 1 New from $380.04 2 Collectible from $225.00. Paperback.
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Jan 1, 1973 · Hardcover – January 1, 1973. Collected here for the first time in book form are the best fantasy tales of one of the genre`s greatest writers, Manly Wade Wellman. Twenty-eight stories and two poems, selected from hundreds of stories and dozens of magazines - the cream of almost half a century of fantasy writing.
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Jan 1, 1973 · Worse Things Waiting. Manly Wade Wellman, Lee Brown Coye. 4.18. 96 ratings6 reviews. Collected here for the first time in book form are the best fantasy tales of one of the genre`s greatest writers, Manly Wade Wellman.
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With vivid descriptions and a masterful command of suspense, Wellman invites readers into a world where the line between reality and the supernatural is blurred, and where the worst things imaginable are waiting just beyond the shadows.
Genre. Fantasy; Horror. The collection Worse Things Waiting was originally published in 1973. It was reprinted in 2018, and compiled a number of Wellman's horror tales.
