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4.3/5
AbeBooks

Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1973

Pages
  
xii, 353 pp

Author
  
Manly Wade Wellman

Illustrator
  
Lee Brown Coye

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Cover artist
  
Lee Brown Coye

Publisher
  
Carcosa

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1973

Genre
  
Fantasy

Country
  
United States of America

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Awards
  
World Fantasy Award for Best Collection/Anthology

Similar
  
Lee Brown Coye books, Works by Manly Wade Wellman, Horror fiction books

Worse Things Waiting is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author 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. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Unknown and Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Contents

Awards

  • 1975, World Fantasy Award, Best Collection/Anthology.

    • Contents

    Foreword by the author

  • "The White Road" (poem)

    • PAGES FROM A MEMORY BOOK

  • "Up Under the Roof"
  • "Among Those Present"
  • "The Terrible Parchment"
  • "Come Into My Parlor"
  • "Frogfather"
  • "Sin’s Doorway"
  • "The Undead Soldier"

    • GRAY VOICES

  • "The Pineys"
  • "The Kelpie"
  • "Changeling"
  • "The Devil Is Not Mocked"
  • "For Fear of Little Men"
  • "'Where Angels Fear...'"
  • "The Witch’s Cat"
  • "School for the Unspeakable"
  • "Warrior in Darkness"
  • "Dhoh"
  • "Larroes Catch Meddlers"

    • THE NIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY

  • "Voice in a Veteran’s Ear"
  • "These Doth the Lord Hate"
  • "The Liers in Wait"
  • "Young-Man-With-Skull-At-His-Ear"
  • "The Hairy Thunderer"
  • "The Song of the Slaves"
  • "When It Was Moonlight"
  • "His Name on a Bullet"
  • "The Valley Was Still"

    • LONGER IN THE TELLING

  • "Fearful Rock"
  • "Coven"

    • References

    Worse Things Waiting Wikipedia
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