Lonely Vigils

Lonely Vigils is a collection of fantasy, horror and mystery short stories by American author Manly Wade Wellman. It was released in 1981 by Carcosa in an edition of 1,548 copies, of which the 566 pre-ordered copies 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 (volume 2 number 3, December 1939; under pen name Hampton Wells). The remaining stories originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.

Lonely Vigils

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Manly Wade Wellman
Illustrator	George Evans
Cover artist	George Evans
Language	English
Genre	fantasy, horror and mystery
Publisher	Carcosa
Publication date	1981
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xii, 377
ISBN	0-913796-03-4
OCLC	9028709
Followed by	What Dreams May Come

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 Dai Sword"
• "Twice Cursed"
• "Shonokin Town"
• "The Leonardo Rondache"
• "The Last Grave of Lill Warran"

References

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

External links

• An omnibus collection of Wellman's public domain short fiction at Standard Ebooks