First Dell printing February, 1980. 238 pages. 0440197767. Interior artwork by Tim Kirk, cover art by Rowena Morrill
Condition: Good+ to VG--, A tight copy with edge wear, creases, corner of front cover is torn off, slight slant.
Includes these short stories first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction:
1. John's My Name: O Ugly Bird!
2. Why They're Named That: One Other
3. Then I Wasn't Alone: Shiver in the Pines
4. You Know the Tale of Hoph: Old Devlins Was A-Waiting
5. Find the Place Yourself: The Desrick on Yandro
6. The Stars Down There: Vandy, Vandy
7. Blue Monkey: Dumb Supper
8. I Can't Claim That: The Little Black Train
9. Who Else Could I Count On: Walk Like a Mountain
10. None Wiser for the Trip: On the Hills and Everywhere
11. Nary Spell: Nine Yards of Other Cloth
Where goblins stalk and evil lurks a wailing cry is heard. He goes by only one name: John. He carries only a silver stringed guitar and a wealth of songs. He travels by foot or by thumb. He does not say much, and few, if any, can even guess what he has seen. But in the enchanted forests of the Carolina hills, he has tussled with every terror, every creature whose legend is whispered around hushed campfires, every being whose existence is feared. To John, they are real. They have reached out of a nightmare world to claim his body, his being, his soul. Who would follow in his footsteps?
PBP61-23
