The Year's Best Horror 21: 2 (Year's Best Horror Stories)
In a Lonely Place
by Karl Edward Wagner
from Warner Books
Gods in Darkness: The Complete Novels of Kane
by Karl Edward Wagner
from Night Shade Books
Kane An immortal, cursed to wander the Earth until he is destroyed by the violence that he himself has created. A warrior and statesman: As comfortable in the shadowy halls of courtly intrigue as he is on the bloody battlefields where those intrigue's inevitably play themselves out. Karl Edward Wagner's complex and compelling character of Kane redefines the boundaries of heroic fantasy, and stands besides Michael Moorcock's Elric, and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser as one of the most idiosyncratic and compelling characters of the fantasy genre. Gods in Darkness gathers together in one volume the complete novels of Kane.
Why Not You and I?
Exorcisms and Ecstasies
by Karl Edward Wagner
from Fedogan & Bremer
Karl Edward Wagner was 49 when he died in 1994. Horror readers treasured him as a superb craftsman in the short story form, as an anthologist for a decade's worth of the DAW Year's Best Horror Stories series, the maestro of Carcosa Press, a champion of the works of Manly Wade Wellman, and the creator of Kane, an immortal warrior-necromancer who swings his sword through stories thick with supernatural dread. This lovingly assembled book, planned before Karl died, serves both as a memorial volume and a last collection of his fiction. Included are a gallery of photos and poignant reminiscences by those who knew him, such as Stephen Jones, Peter Straub, Frances Wellman, Ramsey Campbell, and David J. Schow. There are 19 excellent horror tales, a long Kane tale and 4 shorter ones, 3 tales from his Adrian Becker (dark gunslinger) series, other uncollected pieces, and a bibliography. At the end of Exorcisms and Ecstasies there's a poem about a man who's obsessed by a demonic shadow: it concludes, "The shadow has ever haunted me, / As I walk the earth so alone-- / And when I turned, no face I saw, / For the shadow was my own. / Death Angel's Shadow."
The Year's Best Horror 16: 2 (Year's Best Horror)
from DAW
The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VIII
The Year's Best Horror 08: 2 (Year's Best Horror)
The Year's Best Horror 13: 2 (Year's Best Horror)
from DAW
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