Karl Edward Wagner Books In Order
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Bran Mak Morn | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Legion from the Shadows | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Echoes of Valor Books
Echoes of Valor | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Echoes of Valor II | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Echoes of Valor III | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Kane Books
Darkness Weaves | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Angel's Shadow | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bloodstone | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Crusade | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Winds | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Kane | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Exorcisms and Ecstasies | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gods in Darkness | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Midnight Sun | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Best Horror Stories Books
Walk on the Wild Side | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where the Summer Ends | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
In the Pines | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sticks | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fourth Seal | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Undertow | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Suns Setting | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The River of Night's Dreaming | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond Any Measure | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Into Whose Hands | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Sinned Against | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Old Loves | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shrapnel | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blue Lady, Come Back | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Endless Night | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At First Just Ghostly | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
But You\'ll Never Follow Me | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Did They Get You to Trade? | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deep in the Depths of the Acme Warehouse | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I've Come to Talk with You Again | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plan 10 from Inner Space | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Neither Brute Nor Human | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
In a Lonely Place | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Why Not You And I? | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Masters of the Weird Tale: Karl Edward Wagner | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
Publication Order of Author's Choice Monthly Books
Daily Voices | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Swatting at the Cosmos | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Neon Twilight | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
True Minds | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hedgework & Guessery | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unthreatened by the Morning Light | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's Been Fun | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Conan (Lancer/Ace) Books
The Return of Conan | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Adventurer | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Warrior | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Usurper | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Conqueror | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Avenger | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan of the Isles | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Freebooter | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Wanderer | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan of Cimmeria | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Buccaneer | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan of Aquilonia | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Swordsman | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan and the Sorcerer | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Liberator | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan: The Road of Kings | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan: The Sword of Skelos | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan and the Spider God | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Rebel | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan the Mercenary | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Little Book II Books
A Little Blue Book of Bibliomancy | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Little Ochre Book of Occult Stories | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Year's Best Horror 01 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror 02 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whispers, Vol. 2, No. 2-3, June 1975 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror 03 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Chills | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whispers | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 3 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Terrors Vol. 1 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VIII | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror 08 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whispers Three | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror IX | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 10 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whispers V | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Years Best Horror Stories XIV | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Barbarians | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Masters of Darkness | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories XV | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gaslight & Ghosts | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Barbarians 2 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ripper! | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories XVI | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horrorstory, Volume 5 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Intensive Scare | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Borderlands 1 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
HorrorStory Volume Four | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories XVIII | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 1 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horrorstory | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIX | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Walls of Fear | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Whisper of Blood: Stories of Vampirism | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 3 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Vampires | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
MetaHorror | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fifth Annual Collection | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories XX | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Zombies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Best New Horror | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Splatterpunks II | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Witch | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories XXI | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hastur Cycle | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Terror | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Lovecraft Circle | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vampire Hunters' Casebook | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cthulhu Mythos | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret City | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vampires | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of New Terror | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Prometheus: A Critical Study of Karl Edward Wagner | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Chills | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Monsters | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Cthulhu II | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darker Terrors 7 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Shadow of Frankenstein | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Karl Edward Wagner was an author, poet, editor, and a publisher known for publishing works of science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
Born on December 12, 1945, in Knoxville, Tennessee, he was born to his mother Dorothea and his father Aubrey J. Wagner. He was one of four children and the youngest. His father served as an official for the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Wagner graduated in 1967 from Kenyon College with his history degree. He then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated with a psychiatry degree. He attempted to practice but did not like the medical profession and left it behind once he got started and settled in as a writer.
Wagner did well as a writer and then an editor. He published two of Manly Wade Wellman’s collections with his Carcosa publishing post. In the course of his career, he wrote several horror and dark fantasy stories. While working as =an editor, he restored a three-volume set of Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard. He also edited The Year’s Best Horror Stories for DAW Books. The Carcosa publishing company also put out four volumes of stories by big authors of pulp magazines. He also put out stories with the character of Kane the Mystic Swordsman.
You can see his lack of enthusiasm with the medical profession in his stories “The Fourth Seal” and “Into Whose Hands”. He has described his philosophy as a cross between absurdist, anarchistic, and nihilistic. He also claimed to be related to Richard, an opera composer. He also had a fondness for Sam Peckinpah’s cinema.
Wagner passed away on October 14, 1994, due to heart failure and liver failure, according to a newsletter from the Horror Writers of America. He died at home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A collection of stories and more called Exorcisms and Ecstasies was published posthumously by Fedogan & Bremer, a small press publisher, in 1997.
Some of his writing is set in the universe established by Robert E. Howard. These feature Conan the Barbarian as well as Bran Mak Morn. He has served as editor for three volumes of the Conan stories by Howard. He also put out three volumes called Echoes of Valor that contained a variety of pulp fantasy stories by various authors. He himself wrote a Bran Morn novel that ended up going unpublished called Queen of the Night.
Perhaps inspired by Conan the Barbarian, Wagner came up with his own protagonist called Kane. The immortal and mystical character had the name based on Cain from the Bible. The character has blue eyes and red hair. is left-handed. and is a powerful force. The author described the character as being one that could rise to the top of any situation and physically dominate (‘rip heads off’) if needed. The immortal character also has elements of the character Solomon Kane from Robert E. Howard. Kane has to wander the Earth as a result of a curse. He is a fighter. but sells his abilities to those who will pay the most. He is intelligent and smart and is able to talk about many topics. But at the end of the day, the sword and sorcery character does not have morals and is a killer. One of the anti-hero’s enemies is the albino Elric.
It was while attending medical school that he came up with his own fantasy character. He also published a dirty novel with a small publishing company in New York. It was then that he decided to give up on being a doctor and to write on a full-time basis. His novel Death Angel’s Shadow was published by Warner Paperback Library in 1973, which brought together the three first Kane tales. which included a novella, a novelette, and a short story.
Wagner also started getting some of his poems and his stories published for money. Some of his stories were published in a magazine called Midnight Sunn, which had once been dedicated to Kane and new fantasy writers. Soon in 1974 the first Kane book came out, called Bloodstone. A cover painting was commissioned by Conan artist Frank Frazetta.
Another book came out in the Kane series in 1976, Dark Crusade. Another Kane story published “Two Suns Setting” won a British Fantasy Award and was nominated of a World Fantasy Award. Other Kane stories were published in magazines during the same time period. Kane stories were also reprinted in Night Winds. Six more published Kane stories came out later in a collection. The publisher also reissued Kane books and a new edition of the story Darkness Weaves.
The last published story of Kane to come out was The Book of Kane in 1985. It was followed by an omnibus of books and short stories from Night Shade Books. There was a novel planned that was never finished and an excerpt came out later in a World Fantasy Convention souvenir book in 1981 and it would later appear in the Midnight Sun collection in 2003.
In 2004, Death Angel’s Shadow was acquired, and plans developed to make a movie based on the first of three short stories in the book. The two other short stories are waiting to possibly be developed into a Kane franchise for Tonic Films.
He won the World Fantasy Award in 1983 for his novella “Beyond Any Measure”. He also won the British Fantasy Award for his story “Neither Brute Nor Human” in 1984. Wagner created the Carcosa publishing house in 1973 in North Carolina with the intent of preserving some of the great work published in pulp magazines and novel form by horror writers. They published four volumes of horror stories, all edited by Wagner. A fifth collection was in the works but Lee Brown Cove passed away while working on the illustrations. The book was abandoned but later came out from Fedogan & Bremer.
He also collaborated on a sci-fi horror novel called Killer with Drake. He also wrote a story called “Sticks”, which won a British Fantasy Award. He edited many more horror anthologies and fantasy anthologies, including fourteen years of The Year’s Best Horror stories. Once he passed away, the series was canceled.
Many of his stories were also adapted into recordings of audio cassettes over the years as well. His story “The River of Night’s Dreaming” was also adapted in 1998 to the television series The Hunger.
Night Winds is the first novel in the Kane series by Karl Edward Wagner. If you like innovative fantasy, check this book out!
Kane is a swordsman who is immortal and walks the Earth alone. Wherever he goes, people remember him. Now he is traveling again to a city’s ruins, where the only people living there are half-men and their queen.
He also goes to the half-burned tavern where a woman he knew many years go holds his kid in keeping for the Devil. He wronged her, but can he get back his child? He goes many places, to giants and their cave kingdom to a house of death.
Get a copy of this novel to follow along on his adventures through the centuries!
Bloodstone is the second novel in the Kane series by Karl Edward Wagner. Kane is back in yet another establishment about the immortal figure.
In this story, the swordsman becomes a living link with a super race gone missing’s power. There’s an old relic from the times when star creatures saw over the Earth.
From the treasure found during a raid, Kane finds a bloodstone ring. The ring may be the key to inactive power that is buried somewhere in the forest. Now Kane can plan to finally rule himself. Will he be able to? Read this novel to find out!
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