Fearful Rock and Other Fantasies

Four tales of folk magic and cosmic dread from Manly Wade Wellman's early career, available in one volume for the first time.

A man marked with an ancient protective charm confronts evil in the Civil War South. A lost Byron manuscript promises theatrical glory and occult danger. A painting comes alive with hunger.

In these novellas and short story, Wellman forged the prototypes of folk horror itself-natural settings infected with the uncanny, witchcraft rooted in genuine tradition, demons tha...