In the later years of Manly Wade Wellman’s career, his success became largely associated with his horror writing, first from Weird Tales and later in the pages of Fantasy & Science Fiction. New readers might have thought he had only written of curses, monsters and Silver John with his silver string guitar. But horror was only about a third of Manly’s out-put. The rest was Science Fiction and later even Sword & Sorcery. Like Fritz Leiber, Wellman was a true writer of SF/F/H, a gifted Fantasy-creator, and like Leiber he was awarded the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. He would also receive a Pulitzer nomination for his non-genre work.
Here you will find a bibliography of Wellman’s genre writing, his stories from Hugo Gernsback’s Wonder Stories, Thrilling Wonder (which he wrote for as often as he did Weird Tales), Astounding Science Fiction (he sold to Tremaine but not many for John W. Campbell), Startling Stories (where he wrote one of the Captain Future novels), Planet Stories and other magazines. He also wrote comics for Fawcett and DC. His story “Elephant Earth” (Astonishing Stories, February 1940) reappeared as “The Reign of the Elephants” in Strange Adventures #11 (August 1951). We hope this bibliography helps you to explore all the work of this amazing writer.
Letter to Weird Tales (August 1926)
“The Lion Roared” (Thrilling Tales, May 1927)
“Back to the Beast” (Weird Tales, November 1927)(as Gans T. Field)
“The White Road” (poem) (Weird Tales, June 1928)
1930s
“When Planets Crashed” (Wonder Stories Quarterly, Spring 1931)
“Faithful Footsteps” (Mind Magic, June 1931)
“The Conquering Don” (Mind Magic, September-October 1931)
“The Disc-Men of Jupiter” (Wonder Stories, September 1931)
“Rebels of the Moon” (Wonder Stories Quarterly, Spring 1932)
“The Boy Champion” (Argosy, September 23, 1933)
“From the Log of the Space-Ship Flammarion” (poem) (Marvel Tales #2, July-August 1934)
“At the Bend of the Trail” (Weird Tales, October 1934)
Letter to Weird Tales, December 1934.
“Outlaws on Callisto” (Astounding Stories, April 1936)
“The Four-Grand Kiss” (Gay Book Magazine, April 1936)
“The Horror Undying” (aka “The Undead Soldier”) (Weird Tales, May 1936)
“The Kelpie” (Weird Tales, July 1936)
“Space Station No. 1” (Argosy, October 10, 1936)
“The Theater Upstairs” (Weird Tales, December 1936)
“The Werewolf Snarls” (aka “Among Those Present”) (Weird Tales, March 1937)
Letter to Weird Tales, June 1937
“The Terrible Parchment” (Weird Tales, August 1937)
“School For the Unspeakable” (Weird Tales, September 1937)
“The Golgatha Dancers” (Weird Tales, October 1937)
“Rule of the Bee” (Astounding Stories, October 1937)
Letter to Weird Tales, December 1937
“Pithecanthropus Rejectus” (Astounding Stories, January 1938)
“The Hairy Ones Shall Dance” (Weird Tales, January February March 1938)(as Gans T. Field)
Letter to Weird Tales, February 1938
Letter to Weird Tales, March 1938
“Dream-Dust From Mars” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1938)
“Wings of the Storm” (Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1938)
“Glimpse” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1938)
“Men Against the Stars” (Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1938)
“The Black Drama” (Weird Tales, June July August 1938)(as Gans T. Field)
“Dead Dog” (Weird Tales, August 1938)
“Treasure Asteroid” (Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1938)
“The Cavern” (with Gertrude Gordon)(Weird Tales, September 1938)
“Up Under the Roof” (Weird Tales, October 1938)
“The Robot and the Lady” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1938)
“Who Knows?” (Fantasmagoria, November 1938)
Nuisance Value (Astounding Science-Fiction, December 1938–January 1939)
“These Doth the Lord Hate” (Weird Tales, January 1939) (Reprinted in Weird Tales, May 1951)
“Battle in the Dawn” (Amazing Stories, January 1939)
“Changeling” (Strange Stories, February 1939)
“Fearful Rock” (Weird Tales, February March April 1939)
“‘Where Angels Fear…'” (Unknown, March 1939)
“Insight” (Dynamic Science Stories, April 1939)
“Brothers of Fate” (Science Fiction, June 1939)
“Meet Our Science Fiction Family” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1939)
“For Fear of Little Men” (Strange Stories, June 1939)
Giants From Eternity (Startling Stories, July 1939)
“Meet the Author” (Startling Stories, July 1939)
“The Valley Was Still” (Weird Tales, August 1939)
“Voice in a Veteran’s Ear” (poem) (Weird Tales, August 1939) (as Gans T. Field)
“Forces Must Be Balanced” (Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1939)
“Merrie England” (Thrilling Adventures, September 1939)
“Half Bull” (Strange Stories, October 1939)
“The Witch’s Cat” (Weird Tales, October 1939) (as Gans T. Field)
“War Cry of Death” (G-Men, October 1939) as C. K. M. Scanlon
“The Einstein Slugger” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1939)
“Rascal at Arms” (Thrilling Adventures, December 1939)
“Murder Among Magicians” (Popular Detective, 1939)
“Hok Goes to Atlantis” (Amazing Stories, December 1939)
“For Love of a Witch” (Strange Stories, December 1939)
“Vigil” (Strange Stories, December 1939)(as Hampton Wells)
1940s
“The Day of the Conquerors” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, January 1940)
“The Diamond Empire, hidden wonder of the world…” (Pep Comics #1, January 1940)
“Fu Chang, American university-educated Chinaman…” (Pep Comics #1, January 1940)
“In London the night was clear and calm…” (Pep Comics #1, January 1940)
“When It Was Moonlight” (Unknown, February 1940)
“Elephant Earth” (Astonishing Stories, February 1940)(as Gabriel Barclay)
“Rocket and the Queen of Diamonds” (Pep Comics #2, February 1940)
“The time is at hand for our great triumph…” (Pep Comics #2, February 1940)
“The Terror of Rocky Pool” (Pep Comics #2, February 1940)
58. “The Planet of Change” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, March 1940)
“The Song of the Slaves” (Weird Tales, March 1940)
“Science and Reality” – Guest Editorial (Startling Stories, March 1940)
Letter to Astounding Science Fiction, March 1940
“Is my plane ready?” (Slam-Bang Comics #1, March 1940)
“His Name on a Bullet” (Strange Stories, April 1940)
“The Boko Kidnappers” (Slam-Bang Comics #2, April 1940)
“The Drug Slaves of Ghor” (Pep Comics #3, April 1940)
“You don’t need me now…” (Pep Comics #3, April 1940)
“London, blacked out to avoid attack by enemy bombing planes…” (Pep Comics #3, April 1940)
“Hok Draws the Bow” (Amazing Stories, May 1940)
“Manly Wade Wellman” (Amazing Stories, May 1940)
“Forward, dealer of death!” (Pep Comics #4, May 1940)
“City of the Hawkmen” (Pep Comics #4, May 1940)
“The Hunchback Horror” (Pep Comics #4, May 1940)
“The Djinn” (Slam-Bang Comics #3, May 1940)
“Hollow of the Moon” (Super Science Stories, May 1940) (as Gabriel Barclay)
“To Save Abe Lincoln” (Thrilling Adventures, May 1940)
Twice In Time (Startling Stories, May 1940)
“The Safari of Dr. Scott” (Slam-Bang Comics #4, June 1940)
“But disaster has been striking Fu Chang’s people…” (Pep Comics #5, June 1940)
“While making their way back to the Diamond Empire…” (Pep Comics #5, June 1940)
“The Man-Monster of London” (Pep Comics #5, June 1940)
“The Dreadful Rabbits” (Weird Tales, July 1940)(as Gans T. Field)
“There Was No Paradise” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1940)
“Cannibals’ Revolt” (South Sea Stories, August 1940)
“Queen of the Driver Ants” (Slam-Bang Comics #6, August 1940)
“Lee Granger, Jungle King” (Slam-Bang Comics #7, September 1940)
“The Worlds of Tomorrow” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1940)
West Point, 3000 AD (Amazing Stories, November December 1940)
“The Life Machines” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1940)
“Bratton’s Idea” (Comet Stories, December 1940)
“Rocket of Metal Men” (Astonishing Stories, December 1940)
Next time we continue with the 1940s when Manly will write of John Thunstone, Captain Marvel and The Spirit… On to Part 2.
