John Thunstone is a fictional character and the hero of a series of stories by author Manly Wade Wellman. Thunstone is a scholar and playboy who investigates...

silver-stringed guitar; the elderly "occult detective" Judge Pursuivant; and John Thunstone, also an occult investigator. Wellman wrote under a number of different...

investigator John Thunstone. The book derives its title from a line in Hamlet's famous "To be, or not to be..." soliloquy. The character of John Thunstone had...

Grandin); Manly Wade Wellman, whose characters Judge Pursuivant and John Thunstone investigated occult events through short stories in the pulps, collected...

the same time. Occult detective stories, such as Manly Wade Wellman's John Thunstone stories - written originally during the 1940s -are credited by many...

characters, Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant, Professor Nathan Enderby, and John Thunstone. The story "Vigil" first appeared in the magazine Strange Stories. The...

during World War I. Until he passed it on to Wellman's later character, John Thunstone, Judge Pursuivant possessed a sword-cane with a silver blade said to...

(features The Gumshoe) "Rouse Him Not", by Manly Wade Wellman (features John Thunstone) "De Marigny’s Clock", by Brian Lumley (features Titus Crow) "Seven...