Karl Edward Wagner

Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 - 14 October 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, best known for his tales of Kane, the immortal swordsman and sorcerer, and for the three volume Conan the Barbarian series he edited for Berkley Medallion.
In a Lonely Place is published by Valancourt Books: www.amazon.com...

[@maestro7058]

Just finished reading this man! This is otherwordly! I had no idea Karl had SUCH a talent. He is absolutely up there with the classics man! His stories legit shook me!

[@occultdetective]

Couldn't agree more! Wagner was a beast. When he was at the top of his game, he stood toe to toe with anyone.

[@maestro7058]

​@@occultdetective Yeah I was so surprised by this book, thank you for this reccomendation! He was so well read, well versed wow, this is up there with most tragic of author stories. A bit of Van Gogh spirit in this story! I hope Karl is writing somewhere in heavens man no joke, what a talent!

[@StevenWithrow]

Thank you for this. In my teens in the 1980s I started seeking out every short story of Karl’s I could find (I’m a big fan of the shorter forms). He, along with Lin Carter and Dennis Etchison, was a masterly writer at his best. A prose poet really.

[@occultdetective]

Oh, I agree. KEW was spectacular, especially his early prose. He is sorely missed.

[@dexocube]

I stumbled on a volume of his Kane stories in a charity shop six months ago. I'm a huge fan of Howard, CL Moore, that earlier era of weird fiction, but I'd never heard of Wagner. The stories were entertaining and deeply disturbing in equal measure. It's a shame most of his stuff is OP, all the old paperbacks are well out of my price range.

[@occultdetective]

In a Lonely Place is affordable and well worth it.

[@HideAndRead]

Awesome video. Subscribed. Frazetta paintings is what got me into collecting (eventually reading a few) paperbacks as well. Have yet to find anything from Karl Wagner yet, the stories sound great though.

[@occultdetective]

He’s spectacular.

[@parazatico9030]

Nice video. Here in England the Kane books had different covers, painted by Chris Achilleos ( 'Nightwinds' and 'Darkness Weaves'), and Les Edwards ('Bloodstone'). I'm not sure who did 'Dark Crusade' or 'Death Angel's Shadow'. I read in the recent 'Phantasmagoria' special on Wagner that he bought the original painting for 'Darkness Weaves' from the artist. I very much hope that Valancourt will publish another volume of Wagner's horror stories, it is a terrible shame that so much of his work is out of print.

[@occultdetective]

Wagner's needs to be heard. Admittedly, his later works suffered, but there was a period there where everything he wrote was pure fire.

[@bechtholdillustrator9378]

Great video on wagner,thank you ! Wasnt there also a documentary about him in the making?

[@occultdetective]

Thank you... and yes, The Last Wolf. Came out a couple of years ago. vimeo.com/ondemand/296318