![]() ![]() Though large, he is quick on his feet and ready to scuffle with miscreants natural and supernatural. He is, of all Wellman’s characters, the one based on himself. Wellman mentions Chesterton in “The Black Drama” as a late friend of the Judge.) Pursuivant is described as a large, blue-eyed man with a short mustache. (The Keith in his name made me think of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and his ghostbreaker, Father Brown. ![]() He looks like a cross between Raymond Burr and Vincent Price. The cover art for the second book features Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant, Manly’s first ghostbreaker, armed with sword and cross. These other ghostbreakers were collected along with John Thunstone in Carcosa Press’s Worse Things Waiting (1973) and Lonely Vigils (1981). ![]() But before these two great superstars there were other men who stood against the creatures of the night. Later, in the 1980s, he wrote novels about both men. Later in the 1950s he wrote twenty or so tales for Fantasy & Science Fiction about John, the wandering singer with the silver stringed guitar. During Wellman’s Weird Tales days he wrote fifteen tales of the ghost buster John Thunstone. Manly Wade Wellman’s first ghostbreakers have not fared as well as his two big stars: John Thunstone and Silver John. ![]()
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