The main character is more "inspired by" than "based on". But he is a guitar-playing man, and he does fight a variety of supernatural (and maybe-SFnal) unpleasantness in mid-20th-century Appalachia.
The stories are indeed good. If you read a bunch of them all together, they get a bit repetitive, but they're still good.
Paizo (a gaming company that occasionally dabbles in publishing classic F&SF) came out with a complete collection a few years back. They're running low on copies, but haven't yet run out, so you can still buy it on their website: http://paizo.com/products/btpy85jz?Who-Fears-the-Devil-The-Complete-Silver-John.
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The stories are indeed good. If you read a bunch of them all together, they get a bit repetitive, but they're still good.
Paizo (a gaming company that occasionally dabbles in publishing classic F&SF) came out with a complete collection a few years back. They're running low on copies, but haven't yet run out, so you can still buy it on their website: http://paizo.com/products/btpy85jz?Who-Fears-the-Devil-The-Complete-Silver-John.
Doug M.