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John the Balladeer
Manly Wade Wellman

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed
in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or
incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 1988 by David Drake
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or
portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

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ISBN: 0-671-65418-7


First printing, July 1988

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Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America

Introduction to the
Electronic Publication
of John the Balladeer

Manly Wade Wellman was one of the most successful fantasy and
SF writers of the '30s and '40s. His SF was generally of a juvenile
nature, popular at the time but of limited interest today. His fantasy,
however, was thoroughly adult. While Lovecraft and Howard were
writing, Manly was in the second rank of Weird Tales authors; after
they died, he became one of the magazine's mainstays.

Despite the high quality of his earlier fantasies, Manly didn't really
hit his stride in the field until in 1949 appeared The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction—a digest magazine which would
publish fantasy of the highest literary quality. For F&SF Manly
created John the Balladeer, drawing on his existing knowledge of
folk music and folklore and his growing love of the North Carolina
mountains.