Illustration by Sara Otterstätter

O Ugly Bird!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Since Who Fears the Devil? by Manly Wade Wellman, the next book due out from Planet Stories, is at the printer as we speak, it seemed about time we put down our manuscripts for a few minutes and did another blog post about it. But seeing as I already sang my paean to Manly Wade Wellman last month, I thought I might be better off trading my thousand words for a picture—in this case, Sara Otterstätter's amazing opening illustration of the book's hero, Silver John, doing battle with the Ugly Bird.

This is just one of five new illustrations and dozens of new monsters in Wellman's epic collection of backwoods Appalachian ghost stories. Preorder it now and see why a pulp storyteller would be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize!

James Sutter
Fiction Editor