The Old Gods Waken, Manly Wade Wellman
The Old Gods Waken, Manly Wade Wellman
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The Old Gods Waken

Author: Manly Wade Wellman

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 5 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 10/21/2014


Synopsis

The first Silver John novelIn the wilds of Southern Appalachia lies Wolter Mountain—a sacred place for the Indians and their predecessors. But the land atop the mountain, taken over by two Englishmen, Brummitt and Hooper Voth, is undergoing frightening changes.

About Manly Wade Wellman

Manly Wade Wellman (1903–1986) was an American writer best known for his fantasy and horror stories, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres including science fiction, historical fiction, detective fiction, Western fiction, juvenile fiction, and nonfiction. Born in Angola, he graduated from Wichita Municipal University (now Wichita State University) in Kansas and received a bachelor of laws degree from Columbia University. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the World Fantasy Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award. He was a long-time resident of North Carolina.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on August 03, 2019

I enjoyed this "Silver John novel," but it is not nearly as good as Wellman's Silver John short stories. The narrative voice of John is purer in the short pieces--both in Appalachian dialect and cultural attitudes--than it is here, and this, plus the brevity and conciseness of the tales themselves,......more

Goodreads review by Arisawe on November 07, 2018

If you tend to read fantasy with historical, or cultural themes, you might like The Old Gods Waken. The reader is lulled in the beginning with a peaceful setting, but an unexplainable happening intrudes, followed by others, and soon the plot is deep in demonology. Amid the horror, Silver John has op......more

Goodreads review by Charles Dee on March 02, 2016

Manly Wade Wellman was born in 1903, in what is now Angola. His father was a physician at the English station there. Wellman was educated in the United States after his parents settled here when he was seven. But his real education began as a small child when he was adopted by a local chief who taug......more