The Golgotha Dancers
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy British and American short horror and fantasy stories
- People who want to read a complete English short story in spare moments
- Beginning readers studying twentieth-century American genre literature
- Readers accustomed to public-domain e-books who can handle the original English text
Not a good fit for
- Beginners who need a Chinese translation or detailed annotations
- Readers who prefer long continuous narratives and complex world-building
- Readers sensitive to religious imagery or horror atmosphere
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the plot, then return to the imagery set up at the beginning
- Look up religious or cultural allusions as needed to help understand the atmosphere
- Read alongside other Gutenberg weird-fiction shorts to compare narrative patterns
- Read it in one sitting in a quiet setting to preserve suspense and pacing
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Manly Wade Wellman (1903–1986) was an American writer known for fantasy and horror fiction as well as stories drawn from North Carolina folklore. Two of his works are included here, The Golgotha Dancers and The Devil's Asteroid, which show his engagement with fantasy and horror and his frequent use of regional folk tradition as source material. Public information about the details of his life is limited, so this note does not dwell on them. Judging from the works at hand and existing descriptions, his writing tends to combine supernatural elements with a strong sense of place, giving him a place in the popular tradition of American fantasy and horror fiction; his work still draws readers interested in these genres.
