| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Wellen, Edward |
Finger of Fate |
1980 JUN |
ss |
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Hotline |
1981 DEC |
nv |
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Spur the Nightmare |
1983 MAR |
nv |
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Pattern |
1984 JUL |
vi |
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Waswolf (with thanks to Charles G. Waugh) |
1987 SEP |
ss |
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Cool Cat |
1990 MAR |
nv |
has audiobook novel(2 cassettes), Mind Slash Matter(1997), part sf & part mystery, about Rush Lightbody, a Hollywood screenwriter stricken by Alzheimer's |
| Wellman, Manly W. & Wade Wellman |
Adventure of the Martian Client, The |
1969 DEC |
ss |
(1903-1986; 1937- ) 1st of 3 stories in Sherlock Holmes ser.; father & son collab.; ser. coll. in fixup novel Sherlock Holme's War of the Worlds(1975); Wade Wellman is the wn. for Manly Wade Wellman Jr, pub. poet & Prof. of English, Clarke College(IA) |
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Venus, Mars, and Baker Street |
1972 MAR |
ss |
2nd of 3 stories in their Sherlock Holmes/War of the Worlds series; Wellman Jr as ps. John H. Watson MD has Sherlock Holmes novels The Seven-Per-Cent Solution(1974), The West End Horror(1976), The Case of the Philosopher's Ring(1978) |
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Sherlock Holmes Versus Mars |
1975 MAY |
nv |
3rd & last story in their Sherlock Holmes/War of the Worlds series; Wellman Jr as ps. John H. Watson MD has Holmes novels S. H. vs Dracula(1979), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes(1979), S. H. and the Golden Bird(1985), S. H. and the Red Demon(1996), etc |
| Wellman, Manly Wade |
Larroes Catch Meddlers |
1951 APR |
ss |
(1903-1986) see 1951 OCT, p.17, for definitions of 'larroes'; born in Kamundongo, Angola; has 1926 BA in English from Wichita Stae Univ., 1927 BA from Columbia Univ.; used ps. Gans T. Field, Levi Crow(in F&SF), house ps. Gabriel Barclay, etc |
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O Ugly Bird! |
1951 DEC |
ss |
1st story in Silver John ser., about a wandering balladeer & American folk ballads; 1st pub. work poem "Ripples" in Verse 1925 SPR; 1st story pub. "When the Lion Roared" in Thrilling Tales 1927 MAY; 1st story pub. sf "When Planets Clashed" in WSQ 1931 SPR |
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Desrick on Yandro, The |
1952 JUN |
ss |
2nd story Silver John ser.; see article on this story in NCLR #11 2002; S.J. 1st introduced in stories "Sin's Doorway"(WRT 1946 JAN), "Frogfather"(WRT 1946 NOV); has 1st book The Invading Asteroid(1932 chap), novel Giants from Eternity(STS 1939 JUL; 1959) |
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Vandy, Vandy |
1953 MAR |
ss |
3rd story Silver John ser.; has novels Romance in Black(WRT 1938 JUN-AUG as "The Black Drama" by Gans T. Field; 1946), The Dark Destroyers(ASF 1938-39 DEC-JAN as "Nuisance Value"; exp. 1959; cut 1960), Sojarr of Titan(STS 1941 MAR; 1949) |
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One Other |
1953 AUG |
ss |
4th story Silver John ser.; has Hok ser. in AMZ(1939-41) & FAD(1942), sf adventures set in early mythic civilizations; has story made into 1961 The Twilight Zone TV ser. ep. "Still Valley" - a Confederate soldier gets a chance to win the war for the South |
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Call Me From the Valley |
1954 MAR |
ss |
5th story Silver John ser.; has Judge Pursuivant ser. in WRT(1938-41, as by Gans T. Field) & later in F&SF, occult detective; has novels The Devil's Planet(STS 1942 JAN; 1951 UK), The Beasts from Beyond(STS 1944 SUM as "Strangers on the Height"; 1950) |
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Little Black Train, The |
1954 AUG |
ss |
6th story Silver John series; has John Thunstone series some in WRT from 1938(as by Gans T. Field) & later in F&SF, occult detective; has novel Twice in Time(STS 1940 MAY; cut 1957; res. 1988) a time travel story featuring Leonardo da Vinci's Florence |
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Shiver in the Pines |
1955 FEB |
ss |
7th story Silver John ser.; J.P. & J.T. ser. colls. Lonely Vigils(1981), novels What Dreams May Come(1983), The School of Darkness(1985); his wife Frances ( ps. Garfield) Wellman(1908-2000) is also an author, pub. in WRT, Fantasy Tales, Whispers, etc |
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Walk Like a Mountain |
1955 JUN |
ss |
8th story Silver John ser.; see his entries under ps. Levi Crow for mys. & nf books; wrote some 35 ya books, incl. The Last Mammoth(1953), Rifles at Mansour's Mill(1961); wife Frances wrote an article on Manly in NCLR #2 1993, a Special Wellman Issue |
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On the Hills and Everywhere |
1956 JAN |
ss |
9th story Silver John ser.; has novel Island in the Sky(TWS 1941 OCT; 1961); Manly's brother, Paul, is a writer of historical novels & nf books of the Southwest, incl. The Iron Mistress(1951), Ride the Red Earth(1958), Death on the Prairie(1987 nf) |
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Old Devlins Was A-waiting |
1957 FEB |
ss |
10th story Silver John ser.; another Silver John story in Sorcerer's Apprentice #11 1981; has Captain Future novel, The Solar Invasion(STS 1946 FLL; 1968); see iv's in Chacal 1977 SPR, AMZ1981 MAR; bio's in Nightshade #3 1976 OCT, The Horror Show 1987 APR |
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Nine Yards of Other Cloth |
1958 NOV |
ss |
N-1959 HUG; 11th story Silver John ser.; ser. coll. in Who Fears the Devil?(1963; made into 1973 movie The Legend of Hillbilly John; exp. vt John the Balladeer, 1988; N-1989 LOC); other Silver John short stories in WRT 1981 FLL, & Whispers 1987 OCT |
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Wonder As I Wander: Some Footprints on John's Trail Through Magic Mountains |
1962 MAR |
gp |
12th in Silver John series, 7 vignettes he will use to connect the series stories in a coll.: 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 |
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Dead Man's Chair |
1973 OCT |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in S. Appalachia ser.; "Some 25 years ago, I began wandering the Southern Appalachians, looking for old songs & old tales, making friends with the mountain people, finally building a cabin among them where I spend what time I can spare" |
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Goodman's Place |
1974 SEP |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF in Southern Appalachia series; this series coll. in The Valley So Low: Southern Mountain Tales(1987); has colls. Worse Things Waiting(1973; W-1975 WFA); wrote DC Comics The Spirit comics during WWII, which are being reprinted 2001-2002 |
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Ghastly Priest Doth Reign, The |
1975 MAR |
ss |
N-1976 WFA, shfi; 3rd story in F&SF in Southern Appalachia ser.; "... witch business in the Carolina mountains. The Book that figures in the story, Albertus Magnus ..." does exist; see Wellman articles in NCLR #1 1992, #2 1993, #11 2002 |
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Where the Woodbine Twineth |
1976 OCT |
ss |
4th story in F&SF in S. Appalachia series, this story not being pub. in any of his colls.; has novels in Silver John series The Old Gods Waken(1979), After Dark(1980; N-1981 LOC), The Lost and the Lurking(1981), The Hanging Stones(1982) |
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Caretaker |
1977 OCT |
ss |
5th story in F&SF in Southern Appalachia series; one more novel in Silver John series, The Voice of the Mountain(1984); has also written westerns; Wellman W-1980 WFA, for Lifetime Achievement Award; see website www.manlywadewellman.com/ |
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Hundred Years Gone |
1978 MAR |
ss |
6th story in F&SF in Southern Appalachia series; Manly Wade Wellman also in F&SF in collaboration with his son Manly Wade Wellman Jr, in War of the Worlds/Sherlock Holmes series, which is coll. in Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds(1975) |
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Toad's Foot |
1979 APR |
ss |
has novels The Beyonders(1977), Cahena: A Dream of the Past(1986); see Gordon Benson Jr: Manly Wade Wellman, the Gentleman from Chapel Hill: A Memorial Working Bibliography(1986 chap); see his obits in LOC 1986 MAY(#304), SFWA Bulletin 1986 SUM |
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What of the Night |
1980 MAR |
ss |
has The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman, Vol. 1: The Third Cry to Legba(2000), Vol. 2: The Devil Is Not Mocked(2001), Vol. 3: Fearful Rock(2001), Vol. 4: Sin's Doorway(2002), Vol. 5: Owls Hoot in the Daytime(2003); biographical info in vol. intros |
| Wellman, Wade |
Postscript by the Junior Collaborator, A |
1969 DEC |
aw |
postscript to his story with his father, #2850; idea for the story came to Wade after seeing the Sherlock Holmes/Jack the Ripper movie, A Study in Terror (1965 British-made; John Neville as Holmes); discusses H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds |
| Wells, John Jay & Marion Zimmer Bradley |
Another Rib |
1963 JUN |
ss |
(1933- ; 1930-1999) Wells the ps. for Juanita Coulson, this her 1st pub. story, who w. her husband Robert, W-1965 HUG for fanzine Yandro, which they edited 1953-86; Bradley from upstate NY, now lives in Texas, is "a nut on circus acrobatics, & carnivals" |
| Wells, Matthew |
Auschwitz Circus, The |
1996 JUN |
ss |
1st short fiction sale; story began as one-act play, performed at A Theatre Company in NYC; worked for last 20 years in acting & writing plays, which incl. God's Country(1990 Off-Off-Broadway), The Goose Girl(in L.A.), Wildest Dreams(Madison Ave Theater) |
| Wentworth, K.D. |
Sacred Ground |
1993 OCT/NOV |
ss |
(1951- ) wn. for Kathy D. Wentworth; he lives in Tulsa, OK; teaches elementary school; fiction editor for Computer Times; has markets column in Pulphouse Pub. writers' mag., The Reporter; 1st story pub. "Daddy's Girl" in Budrys(ed): WotF, Vol. V(1989) |
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As You Sow |
1995 MAR |
ss |
has 1st novel sf, The Imperium Game(1994; N-1995 LOC), about a Roman Empire computer game that becomes deadly reality when the player who reigns as Emperor is murdered in the real world as well(B&C); she's often drawn to religious themes in her fiction |
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'Tis the Season |
1997 DEC |
ss |
story grew out of observation, "in the hands of some people, religion is as dangerous as a controlled sunstance"; has novel Moonspeaker(1994), about a girl, falsely accused of killing her father, who uses psychic powers to escape to alternate timelines |
| |
Tall One |
1998 APR |
ss |
N-1998 NEB, short story; has novels House of Moons(1995), about the founder of a controversial mind-talent training school, sequel to Moonspeaker(1994); Black on Black(1999), about an alien rescued from a slave market by a human & raised as his son |
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Embians, The |
1999 MAY |
ss |
since pub. her 1st story in 1989, K.D. Wentworth has pub. 40 or more short stories in sf/f genre mags. & anth.; mags. incl. RoF, MZBFM, TotU, ABO, AHMM, MZoo, After Hours, TSF, GAL, Starshore, & PLP |
| Wessell, Deborah |
She Could Look It Up |
1991 JAN |
ss |
lives in Seattle, her husband is writer Steven Bryan Bieler; attended 1988 Clarion; 1st stort pub. sf "The Last One to Know" in ASI 1989 APR; has sldo pub. fiction in PLP, & anth. Universe 2(1992); "most of my stories are humor of one sort or another" |
| Wessells, Henry |
Curiosities: The Well of the Unicorn, by Fletcher Pratt, 1948 |
1999 DEC |
br |
Fletcher Pratt's(1897-1956) novel(1st pub. under the ps. George U. Fletcher) "deals with the political turmoil in the land of Dalarna ... intrigues & battles are interwoven with political discussions & reflections on the consequences of using magic" |
| West, Jake |
Halls of Burning |
1997 AUG |
ss |
lives in Torrance, CA; has short stories "A Dearth of Ravens" in Plot WIN/SPR 1997, "Digital Hearts and Minds" in AMZ 1999 WIN |
| West, John Anthony |
George |
1961 JUN |
ss |
(1932- ) "this story was orig. conceived & written as a play; since pub. in F&SF, it has been scheduled to be an off-Broadway play; ex-Editorial Assistant to F&SF(1956) & ex-Assistant Editor to VSF(1957), he lives on the island of Ibiza(south of Majorca) |
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Fiesta at Managuay |
1961 DEC |
ss |
1st pub. in his coll. Call Out the Malicia(1961 - UK; 1962 - US), stories from different genres, but each presenting a satiric view of American life; has novel Osborne's Army(1966), set on Caribbean island Escondite, a target for 20th century developers |
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Gladys's Gregory |
1963 FEB |
ss |
has nf nooks Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Egypy(1979), which discusses the work of Egyptologist R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz; The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt: A Guide to the Sacred Places of Ancient Egypt(1985), The Case for Astrology(1991) |
| West, Michelle |
Guilty Pleasures |
1996 MAY |
br |
(1963- ) Michelle Sagara West; N-1992, 1993 JWCA; "you will see here books that fulfill my criterion for a good read"; Tanya Huff: Fifth Quarter; Laurell K. Hamilton: Circus of the Damned; Melissa Scott: Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Proud Helios |
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Guilty Pleasures |
1996 JUL |
br |
Melissa Scott & Lisa Barnett: Point of Hopes; essay: two types of comfort books; Pauline Ashwell: Project Farcry; Rand & Robin Miller with David Wingrove: Myst: The Book of Atrus; West's 1st story pub. fantasy novel Into the Dark Lands(1991; N-1992 CCR) |
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Guilty Pleasures |
1996 SEP |
br |
Terry Pratchett: Men at Arms; Sharon Shinn: Archangel; Jane Emerson: City of Diamond; Tanya Huff: Scholar of Decay; Rosemary Edghill: Book of Moons; as Sagara has The Sundered ser., Into the Dark Lands(1991; N-1992 CCR), Children of the Blood(1992) |
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Guilty Pleasures |
1996 DEC |
br |
essay: her 2:00 A.M. novel test; Francine G. Woodbury: Shade and Shadow; Christopher Golden: Daredevil: Predator's Smile; Anne Lesley Groell: Anvil of the Sun; Kara Dalkey: Goa, Blood of the Goddess, Vol.1 |
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Guilty Pleasures |
1997 APR |
br |
essay: publisher or marketing hype, books must live up to it; J. Gregory Keyes: The Waterborn; Wil McCarthy: The Fall of Sirius; Jennifer Roberson: Highlander: Scotland the Brave; Ann Marston: Kingmaker's Sword; Tom Holt: Expecting Someone Taller |
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Guilty Pleasures |
1997 MAY |
br |
essay: good-bye to editor Kris Rusch; Kate Elliott: King's Dragon, Vol. One of Crown of Stars; Laurell K. Hamilton: Bloody Bones; Jane Yolen: Here There Be Angels; Pamela Sargent & George Zebrowski: A Fury Scorned(Star Trek novel) |
