Lonely Vigils

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Lonely Vigils
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Manly Wade Wellman
Illustrator	George Evans
Cover artist	George Evans
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	fantasy, horror and mystery short stories
Publisher	Carcosa
Publication date	1981
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xii, 377 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-913796-03-4

Lonely Vigils is a collection of fantasy, horror and mystery short stories by author Manly Wade Wellman. It was released in 1981 by Carcosa in an edition of 1,548 copies of which the 566 copies, that were pre-ordered, were signed by the author and artist. The stories feature Wellman's supernatural detective characters, Judge Keith, Hilary Pursuivant, Professor Nathan Enderby, and John Thunstone. The story "Vigil" first appeared in the magazine Strange Stories. The remaining stories originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.

[edit] Contents

• Foreword
• "The Hairy Ones Shall Dance"
• "The Black Drama"
• "The Dreadful Rabbits"
• "The Half-Haunted"
• "Vigil"
• "The Third Cry to Legba"
• "The Golden Goblins"
• "Hoofs"
• "Letters of Cold Fire"
• "John Thunstone's Inheritance"
• "Sorcery from Thule"
• "The Dead Man's Hand"
• "Throne on the Threshold"
• "The Shonokins"
• "Blood From a Stone"
• "The Dail Sword"
• "Twice Cursed"
• "Shonokin Town"
• "The Leonardo Rondache"
• "The Last Grave of Lil Warran"

[edit] References

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 137.