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* Literature/SilverJohn series
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* Literature/SilverJohn "Literature/SilverJohn" series
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Or, rather Byron was a [[spoiler: a man cursed in childhood to serve dark powers for 150 years]].
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Or, rather Or rather, Byron was a [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a man cursed in childhood to serve dark powers for 150 years]].years]].
* BiggerOnTheInside: In "The Golden Goblins", the spirit bundle contains at least fifteen figurines, and yet it's only large enough for one.
* BiggerOnTheInside: In "The Golden Goblins", the spirit bundle contains at least fifteen figurines, and yet it's only large enough for one.
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* DarknessEqualsDeath: In "The Golgotha Dancers," the titular figures can come out of the painting if it's left in darkness.
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* LogicalWeakness: "The Golgotha Dancers" features a [[SpookyPainting living painting]], which causes the narrator a fair amount of trouble--until he reasons that if it's living, it ''can'' be killed.
* MeaningfulName: The Belstones in "Ever the Faith Endures." The stone in question still stands outside of their ancestral home in England--and [[spoiler:it's "Bel" in the sense of [[Literature/BookOfDaniel "Bel and the Dragon."]]]]
* MeaningfulName: The Belstones in "Ever the Faith Endures." The stone in question still stands outside of their ancestral home in England--and [[spoiler:it's "Bel" in the sense of [[Literature/BookOfDaniel "Bel and the Dragon."]]]]
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* SecretLegacy: A variation, in "Ever the Faith Endures." The American protagonist travels to England to research his family history, and ends up learning far more of it than he was prepared for. At the end, though, [[spoiler:his distant cousin remains the guardian of the Bel Stone, and the hungry god that lives in it]].
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Although he grew up in America, Wellman was born in the village of Kamundongo, then part of Portuguese West Africa and now in the Republic of Angola. Wellman was steeped in the local African culture and folklore, which influenced a good deal of his writing. After the family returned to the United States, he developed a similar fascination with American back country folklore, and themes of Culture Clash, DeliberateValuesDissonance, [[NatureIsNotNice the harshness of nature in remote communities]], and the power of folk belief are major motifs in his work.
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Although he grew up in America, Wellman was born in the village of Kamundongo, then part of Portuguese West Africa and now in the Republic of Angola. Wellman was steeped in the local African culture and folklore, which influenced a good deal of his writing. After the family returned to the United States, he developed a similar fascination with American back country folklore, and themes of Culture Clash, CultureClash, DeliberateValuesDissonance, [[NatureIsNotNice the harshness of nature in remote communities]], and the power of folk belief are major motifs in his work.
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* FrazettaMan: The Neanderthals of the ''Hok the Mighty'' stories.
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* FrazettaMan: The Neanderthals Neanderthals, or "Gnorrls", of the ''Hok the Mighty'' stories.stories. In the above-mentioned "Back to the Beast", the inventor's DevolutionDevice turns him into one of these, and then finally into a simple ape (though not an ape any of the other scientists can identify).
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* HandsomeHeroicCaveman: Hok the Mighty, who debuted in "Battle in the Dawn" and appeared in a number of follow-up stories, is a square-jawed, good-looking young Cro-Magnon living in a reasonably well-researched Stone Age setting - although his stories drift more an more into the realm of SwordAndSorcery as they progress.
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* HandsomeHeroicCaveman: Hok the Mighty, who debuted in "Battle in the Dawn" and appeared in a number of follow-up stories, is a square-jawed, good-looking young Cro-Magnon living in a reasonably well-researched Stone Age setting - although his stories drift more an more into the realm of SwordAndSorcery as they progress. However, the Hok stories feature tons of DeliberateValuesDissonance, making him an antihero at best.
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Although he grew up in America, Wellman was born in the village of Kamundongo, then part of Portuguese West Africa and now in the Republic of Angola. Wellman was steeped in the local African culture and folklore, which influenced a good deal of his writing. After the family returned to the United States, he developed a similar fascination with American back country folklore, and themes of Culture Clash, DeliberateValuesDissonance, [[NatureIsNotNice the harshness of nature in remote communities]], and the power of folk belief are major motifs in his work.
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* FrazettaMan: The Neanderthals of ''Hok the Mighty''
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* FrazettaMan: The Neanderthals of the ''Hok the Mighty''Mighty'' stories.
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Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was a prolific American writer who worked in practically every genre, but best known for his DarkFantasy stories about a traveling musician named John who frequently finds himself battling supernatural menaces in the deep backwoods of Appalachia. Wellman had already written other OccultDetective stories, demonstrating a talent for weirdness and a quirky sense of humour, but the "Silver John" stories (so-called for disambiguation, although their protagonist is always just plain John) are additionally enlivened by Wellman's enduring interest in the folklore and folk music of backwoods America.
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Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was a prolific American writer who worked in practically every genre, but best known for his DarkFantasy stories about a traveling musician named John who frequently finds himself battling supernatural menaces in the deep backwoods of Appalachia. Wellman had already written other OccultDetective stories, demonstrating a talent for weirdness and a quirky sense of humour, but the "Silver John" "Literature/SilverJohn" stories (so-called for disambiguation, although their protagonist is always just plain John) are additionally enlivened by Wellman's enduring interest in the folklore and folk music of backwoods America.
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* DevolutionDevice: One of these is hidden inside ''The Devil's Asteroid''.
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* DevolutionDevice: One of these is hidden inside ''The Devil's Asteroid''. The short story "Back to the Beast" is about a scientist who [[ProfessorGuineaPig invents one and tests it on himself]], with disastrous results.
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* {{Ghostapo}}: "The Devil Is Not Mocked" has an early reference to Heinrich Himmler holding "some sort of garbled druidic ritual". In the main story, we see that the supernatural is not as much under Nazi command as Himmler would like to think, when a Wehrmacht unit on the Eastern Front pick [[HauntedCastle the wrong castle]] to use as their field base.
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* {{Ghostapo}}: "The Devil Is Not Mocked" has an early reference to Heinrich Himmler UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler holding "some sort of garbled druidic ritual". In the main story, we see that the supernatural is not as much under Nazi command as Himmler would like to think, when a Wehrmacht unit on the Eastern Front pick [[HauntedCastle the wrong castle]] to use as their field base.
