Manly Wade Wellman

“Manly Wade Wellman's life (1903–1986) reads like that of a pulp fiction hero. Wellman was born in 1903 in the village of Kamundongo in Portuguese West Africa (now Angola), where his father was stationed as a medical officer. He spoke the native dialect before he learned English, and became an adopted son of a powerful chief whose vision Dr. Wellman restored. As a small child, Manly twice visited London, where the family stayed in Torrington Square which was obliterated during the Battle of Britain. Beginning in the 1930s, Wellman was a regular and very popular writer for magazines such as Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories.