Worse Things Waiting

Infobox Book
name = Worse Things Waiting
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Manly Wade Wellman
illustrator = Lee Brown Coye
cover_artist = Lee Brown Coye
country = United States
language = English
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genre = fantasy and horror short stories
publisher = Carcosa
release_date = 1973
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xii, 353 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-913796-00-X
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"Worse Things Waiting" is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Manly Wade Wellman. It was released in 1973 by Carcosa in an edition of 2,867 copies, of which 536 pre-ordered copies were signed by the author and artist. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines "Weird Tales", "Strange Stories", "Unknown" and "Fantasy and Science Fiction".

Awards

*1975, World Fantasy Award, Best Collection/Anthology [cite web
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Contents

* Foreword
* "The White Road"
* "Pages from a Memory Book"
* "Up Under the Roof"
* "Among Those Present"
* "The Terrible Parchment"
* "Come Into My Parlor"
* "Frogfather"
* "Sin’s Doorway"
* "The Undead Soldier"
* "Gray Voices"
* "The Pineys"
* "The Kelpie"
* "Changeling"
* "The Devil Is Not Mocked"
* "For Fear of Little Men"
* "'Where Angels Fear...'"
* "The Witch’s Cat"
* "School for the Unspeakable"
* "Warrior in Darkness"
* "Dhoh"
* "Larroes Catch Meddlers"
* "The Night Side of History"
* "Voice in a Veteran’s Ear"
* "These Doth the Lord Hate"
* "The Liers in Wait"
* "Young-Man-With-Skull-At-His-Ear"
* "The Hairy Thunderer"
* "The Song of the Slaves"
* "When It Was Moonlight"
* "His Name on a Bullet"
* "The Valley Was Still"
* "Longer in the Telling"
* "Fearful Rock"
* "Coven"

Notes

References

*cite web
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*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=136 | date=1998