The Devil Is Not Mocked and Other Warnings

Rating:
Summary: Nice assortment
Review: Another good collection of Wellman stories, well written and enjoyable. "Ever the Faith Endures" is my favorite here, a nice little tale of a man visiting a distant British relation and finding out a surprising family secret. "The Theatre Upstairs" is a nice weird story of revenge, while the title story features a Nazi general taking over a Romanian castle with only one occupant (not hard to guess who the occupant was). Over two dozen stories in all, with something for everyone.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent American Horror
Review: Wellman was one of the great American fantasists, and this series is pretty much the definitive Wellman collection. John Pelan has done a great job selecting the stories, and the book itself is of high quality. It will look good on your shelf, it will last through many readings - and you really aren't going to be able to find the original stories in paperbacks and pulps. You just want to read, and the price is quite reasonable when you think about how much time and money you'd spend on the first editions. Even reprints of this stuff are hard to track down.

It's kind of like the horror equivalent of the NESFA Press collections, like the three-volume Hal Clement omnibus - great stories that aren't easy to find, collected and presented.

Kudos to Pelan and Nightshade for giving us a great edition of hard-to-find, high quality horror. Let's hope they keep it up with other authors, I'll keep buying them.