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(1903 - 1986)
Wellman's body of work was outside the SF and Fantasy field; not because he wrote so little of it but because he wrote a huge amount of everything else. While he achieved awards for his mystery and fantasy work, Wade also excelled in westerns, Civil War history, and biography (a field that garnered a Pulitzer nomination). Beginning his writing career in the early Depression years, Wellman averaged 8 to 10 thousand words a day for almost a decade. He sold continually to all of the SF pulps. That pace slowed as research demands for non-fiction increased.
Wellman moved to North Carolina in 1945. Only one member of a family of writers...a large body of the Wellman Family Archive has been deposited at Wichita State University in Kansas. Another large archive, reported to be Wade's personal file is in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Awards won by Wellman include the 1946 Ellery Queen; 1955 Mystery Writer's Edgar; 1975 WFA for Best Anthology; the 1980 World Fantasy Award and the 1985 British Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Wellman's name has also been placed in North Carolina's Literary Hall of Fame.
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- Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968)
- Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants (1976)
- Swords Against Darkness II (1977)
- Swords Against Darkness (1977)
- Swords Against Darkness III (1978)
- Swords Against Darkness IV (1979)
- Microcosmic Tales (1980)
- Dark Forces (1980)
- Treasury of Modern Fantasy, a (1981)
- Fantasy Hall of Fame, the (1983)
- Wizards (1983)
- Bestiary! (1985)
- Magicats! (1985)
- Ethnic Detectives, the (1985)
- Giants (1985)
- Twilight Zone: The Original Stories (1985)
- Sorcerers! (1986)
- Demons! (1987)
- Penguin Book of Vampire Stories, the (1987)
- Dark Descent, the (1987)
- Best Horror Stories From The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, the (1988)
- Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond (1988)
- Dixie Ghosts (1988)
- Masters of Darkness II (1988)
- Atlantis (1988)
- Curses (1989)
- Seaserpents! (1989)
- Best Horror Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume II, the (1990)
- Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990)
- Best Horror from Fantasy Tales, the (1990)
- Great American Ghost Stories (1991)
- Great American Ghost Stories, Volume One (1992)
- Vampire Stories (1992)
- Mammoth Book of Vampires, the (1992)
- Mammoth Book of Zombies, the (1993)
- 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993)
- Game Is Afoot, the (1994)
- Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, the (1994)
- Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, the (1994)
- 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995)
- Mystery Cats 3 (1995)
- Modern Classics of Fantasy (1996)
- Supernatural Sleuths (1996)
- 100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
- Girls’ Night Out: Twenty-Nine Female Vampire Stories (1997)
- 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1997)
- Feline Felonies (2001)
- American Fantasy Tradition, the (2002)
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