What a fascinating thread. I read Manly Wade Wellman as a kid. Only in my young adulthood, when I got interested in folk music, did I realize that John the Balladeer was singing traditional mountain songs. By then I'd outgrown my adolescent obsession with SF and fantasy and had long since disposed of my Wellman books.

In the early 1990s I was doing research in an archive for a book I was writing. I was the only one there, so when the phone rang, I picked it up. The caller identified himself as Wade Wellman, and a pleasant conversation on matters of mutual interest followed. At one point I asked him if he was related to Manly Wade Wellman, and he told me he was his son. He was then working as an engineer in Milwaukee.

I'm glad to learn that the elder Wellman's stories are back in print. Maybe I'll look them up.