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Karl Edward Wagner

Karl Edward Wagner

Wagner, Karl Edward

December 12, 1945 – October 14, 1994 (aged 48)

Birth place: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

198 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
August 1973 118 Short Fiction In the Pines The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1973
1974 56 Serial Darkness Weaves (Part 1 of ?) Midnight Sun, 1974
1974 114 Poem Death Angel's Shadow Midnight Sun, 1974
1974 7 Short Fiction In the Lair of Yslsl Midnight Sun, 1974
1974 30 Short Fiction Killer Midnight Sun, 1974
1974 53 Essay Lonely Places Midnight Sun, 1974
1974 75 Short Fiction Lynortis Reprise Midnight Sun, 1974
1974 4 Poem Midnight Sun Midnight Sun, 1974
March 1974 46 Short Fiction Sticks Whispers, March 1974
1975 65 Serial Darkness Weaves (Part 2 of ?) Midnight Sun, Summer-Fall 1975
1975 Short Fiction Sign of the Salamander John Chance vs. Dread: The Apocalypse, Summer-Fall 1975
1975 4 Short Fiction The Dark Muse Midnight Sun, Summer-Fall 1975
1975 54 Short Fiction The Last Wolf Midnight Sun, Summer-Fall 1975
April 1975 9 Review Bloodstone The Science Fiction Review (Monthly), April 1975
June 1975 15 Review Bloodstone Delap's F & SF Review, June 1975
June 1975 103 Short Fiction The Fourth Seal Whispers, June 1975
May 1976 58 Short Fiction Two Suns Setting Fantastic, May 1976
January 1977 10 Review Legion from the Shadows Delap's F & SF Review, January 1977
April 1977 35 Review Dark Crusade Delap's F & SF Review, April 1977
August 1977 44 Short Fiction Undertow Whispers, August 1977
November 1977 11 Essay The Once and Future Kane Shayol, #1 November 1977
June 1979 67 Review Night Winds Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, June 1979
January 1980 3 Essay Fantasy's Unreconstructed Rebel Fantasy Newsletter, No. 20 January 1980
January 1980 34 Essay In Memoriam: Dave McFerran Airgedlámh, Autumn 1980
March 1980 3 Essay "How Do We Get Here from There? or, Yesterday Was Today Tomorrow" Fantasy Newsletter, No. 22 March 1980
May 1980 6 Essay "How Billy the Kid Met Jack the Ripper" Fantasy Newsletter, No. 24 May 1980
June 1980 4 Interview Raising Kane: Interview with Karl Edward Wagner, M.D. Night Voyages, #6, Summer 1980
July 1980 4 Essay "Breaking In" Fantasy Newsletter, No. 26 July 1980
September 1980 13 Essay On Fantasy (Fantasy Newsletter No. 28) Fantasy Newsletter, No. 28 September 1980
November 1980 14 Essay "Harvesting Horror" Fantasy Newsletter, No. 30 November 1980
December 1980 17 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VIII Fantasy Newsletter, No. 31 December 1980
January 1981 4 Essay "Out and About in October Country" Fantasy Newsletter, No. 32 January 1981
March 1981 3 Essay On Fantasy (Fantasy Newsletter #34) Fantasy Newsletter, #34 March 1981
May 1981 4 Essay New Views of Necrophilia, or "Some things in the ground are better left undistrubed" Fantasy Newsletter, #36 May 1981
May 1981 4 Review Weird Tales #1 Fantasy Newsletter, #36 May 1981
May 1981 5 Review Weird Tales #2 Fantasy Newsletter, #36 May 1981
July 1981 5 Essay "Even a Man Who Is Pure in Heart" Fantasy Newsletter, #38 July 1981
July 1981 30 Review Dark Crusade Ad Astra, Issue Sixteen
July 1981 17 Interview Interview: Karl Edward Wagner (Part 1 of 2) Fantasy Newsletter, #38 July 1981
August 1981 12 Interview Interview: Karl Edward Wagner (Part 2 of 2) Fantasy Newsletter, #39 August 1981
November 1981 6 Essay Celluloid S & S: Boon or Menace? Fantasy Newsletter, #42 November 1981
November 1981 11 Essay Lee Brown Coye Dead at 74 Fantasy Newsletter, #42 November 1981
January 1982 8 Essay In Memoriam: Lee Brown Coye Fantasy Newsletter, #44 January 1982
March 1982 141 Short Fiction Beyond Any Measure Whispers, March 1982
April 1982 61 Essay She: H. Rider Haggard Heavy Metal, April 1982
June 1982 5 Essay Reality: Assassin of Myth Fantasy Newsletter, #48 June 1982
August 1982 11 Essay The Invisible Assassins Fantasy Newsletter, #50 August 1982
October 1982 5 Essay A Fan Madness Fantasy Newsletter, #52 October 1982
November 1982 4 Essay Letter (Fantasy Newsletter No. 53) Fantasy Newsletter, #53 November 1982
December 1982 6 Essay Hold the Bologna on Mine Fantasy Newsletter, #54 December 1982
December 1982 43 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #10, December 1982
December 1982 30 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X Fantasy Newsletter, #54 December 1982
1983 36 Short Fiction Misericorde Sorcerer's Apprentice, Issue 17
February 1983 8 Essay The Unknown Writer Fantasy Newsletter, #56 February 1983
March 1983 13 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, March-April 1983
April 1983 13 Essay The Lurkers from Across the Pond Fantasy Newsletter, #58 April 1983
May 1983 276|276.06 Essay 13 Best Non-Supernatural Horror Novels Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 273|273.06 Essay 13 Best Supernatural Horror Novels Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 273|273.09 Review Alraune Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 274|274.10 Review Burn Witch Burn Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 273|273.10 Review Dark Sanctuary Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 275|275.6 Review Doctors Wear Scarlet Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 275|275.7 Review Echo of a Curse Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 274|274.06 Review Falling Angel Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 274|274.11 Review Fingers of Fear Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 278|278.06 Review Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 273|273.07 Review Hell! Said the Duchess Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 276|276.09 Review Here Comes a Candle Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 274|274.07 Review Maker of Shadows Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 275|275.8 Review Medusa: A Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy, and Strange Horror Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 274|274.09 Review Melmoth the Wanderer Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 276|276.08 Review Psycho Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 273|273.08 Review The Burning Court Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 277|277.6 Review The Crooked Hinge Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 276|276.07 Review The Deadly Percheron Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 276|276.11 Review The Fire Spirits Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 278|278.09 Review The Master of the Day of Judgment Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 276|276.10 Review The Screaming Mimi Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 278|278.07 Review The Shadow on the House Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 277|277.7 Review The Sorcerer's Apprentice Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 278|278.10 Review The Subjugated Beast Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 278|278.08 Review The Torture Garden Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 274|274.08 Review The Yellow Mistletoe Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
May 1983 277|277.8 Review Vampire Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1983
June 1983 6 Essay "... And Others" (David Drake) Fantasy Newsletter, #60 June-July 1983
July 1983 288|288.5 Essay 13 Best Science Fiction Horror Novels Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 288|288.7 Review Final Blackout Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 290|290.03 Review Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 290|290.02 Review Freak Museum Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 8 Review In a Lonely Place Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 Review In a Lonely Place Heavy Metal, July 1983
July 1983 289|289.9 Review Land Under England Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 289|289.5 Review Quatermass and the Pit Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 289|289.8 Review The Black Corridor Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 289|289.6 Review The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 290|290.01 Review The Cross of Carl Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 290|290.04 Review The Day of the Triffids Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 288|288.6 Review The Death Guard Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 289|289.7 Review The Flying Beast Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 288|288.9 Review The Quatermass Experiment Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
July 1983 288|288.8 Review Vampires Overhead Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
September 1983 9 Essay The Decline But Not Yet Fall of the Anthology Fantasy Newsletter, #62 September 1983
November 1983 8 Review Devil Wind Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983
November 1983 10 Review Halloween III: Season of the Witch Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983
November 1983 8 Review Magic Show Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983
November 1983 8 Essay Other Dimensions: Books (Twilight Zone, November-December 1983) Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983
November 1983 9 Review Phantom Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983
November 1983 8 Review The Doll Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983
November 1983 8 Review The Game Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983
November 1983 8 Review The Gruesome Book Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983
November 1983 10 Review The Kill Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November-December 1983
January 1984 8 Essay Lost Turkeys of the Ether Waves Fantasy Review, #64 January 1984
July 1984 7 Essay Roscoes, Rayguns, and Geeks Fantasy Review, July 1984
July 1984 30 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI Fantasy Review, July 1984
August 1984 30 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI Fantasy Review, August 1984
March 1985 14 Review In a Lonely Place Fantasy Review, March 1985
March 1985 25 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII Fantasy Review, March 1985
April 1985 8 Essay Swell Stuff Fantasy Review, April 1985
June 1985 162 Review Killer Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985
July 1985 13 Essay More Swell Stuff (but cheaper!) Fantasy Review, July 1985
October 1985 35 Essay Yet More Swell Stuff Fantasy Review, October 1985
December 1985 23 Review The Book of Kane Fantasy Review, December 1985
December 1985 24 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII Fantasy Review, December 1985
February 1986 40 Essay Letter (Fantasy Review, February 1986) Fantasy Review, February 1986
April 1986 15 Essay The Old Captain Goes Home Fantasy Review, April 1986
April 1986 16 Interior Art The Old Captain Goes Home (photo) Fantasy Review, April 1986
May 1986 54 Essay Manly Wade Wellman Locus, #304 May 1986
June 1986 45 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII Science Fiction Chronicle, #81 June 1986
July 1986 15 Review The Book of Kane Amazing Stories, July 1986
September 1986 55 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII Fangoria, September 1986
November 1986 48|48.04 Review The Book of Kane Science Fiction Chronicle, #86 November 1986
November 1986 34 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV Fantasy Review, November 1986
February 1987 14 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: XIV Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, February 1987
March 1987 29 Essay Manly Wade Wellman: A Biography The Horror Show, Spring 1987
July 1987 8 Essay The Raw Edge Fantasy Review, July-August 1987
July 1987 33 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV Fangoria, July 1987
November 1987 11 Review Why Not You and I? Locus, #322 November 1987
December 1987 45|45.07 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV Science Fiction Chronicle, #99 December 1987
January 1988 53 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XV Science Fiction Chronicle, #100 January 1988
March 1988 56 Review Why Not You and I? Fangoria, March 1988
June 1988 62 Review Why Not You and I? Midnight Graffiti, June 1988
November 1988 66 Essay Eva McKenna Locus, #334 November 1988
December 1988 58 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV Fangoria, December 1988
1989 113 Short Fiction At First Just Ghostly Weird Tales, Spring/Fall 1989
June 1989 26 Interview Blow Lamps and Wicked Milk: An Interview with Karl Edward Wagner Dagon, June-August 1989
June 1989 64 Essay Watch Your Back Jabberwocky, Summer 1989
December 1989 54 Review Echoes of Valor II Locus, #347 December 1989
December 1989 54 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories XVII Locus, #347 December 1989
December 1989 56 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories XVII Locus, #347 December 1989
1990 23 Review Unthreatened by the Morning Light Quantum, Spring 1990
January 1990 55 Review Intensive Scare Locus, #348 January 1990
January 1990 19 Review Unthreatened by the Morning Light Locus, #348 January 1990
April 1990 68 Review Horrorstory, Volume Five Fear, April 1990
July 1990 36|36.4 Review Author's Choice Monthly #2: Unthreatened by the Morning Light Science Fiction Chronicle, #130 July 1990
July 1990 35 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories XVIII Locus, #354 July 1990
August 1990 58 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories XVII Fangoria, August 1990
1991 169 Short Fiction A Fair Cop Gauntlet 2
March 1991 52 Review Year's Best Horror Stories XVIII Deathrealm, Spring 1991
December 1991 42 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories XVIII Science Fiction Review, December 1991
December 1991 58 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIX Locus, #371 December 1991
January 1992 9 Essay Letter (Tekeli-li!, Winter/Spring 1992) Tekeli-li!, Winter/Spring 1992
March 1992 44 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIX Science Fiction Review, March 1992
May 1992 26 Interview An Interview with Curtiss Stryker Pulp Vault, May 1992
May 1992 32 Review Echoes of Valor III Pulp Vault, May 1992
December 1992 60 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XX Locus, #383 December 1992
June 1993 20 Essay The View from Carcosa (Deathrealm, Summer 1993) Deathrealm, Summer 1993
September 1993 46 Essay The View from Carcosa (Deathrealm, Fall 1993) Deathrealm, Fall 1993
November 1993 68 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories XXI Fangoria, November 1993
December 1993 38 Review Darkness Weaves Vector 176
December 1993 58 Essay The View from Carcosa (Deathrealm, Winter 1993) Deathrealm, Winter 1993
January 1994 19 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XXI Locus, #396 January 1994
March 1994 42 Essay The View from Carcosa (Deathrealm, Spring 1994) Deathrealm, Spring 1994
June 1994 54 Essay The View from Carcosa (Deathrealm, Summer 1994) Deathrealm, Summer 1994
October 1994 46|46.18 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII Science Fiction Chronicle, #177 October 1994
October 1994 29 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XXII Locus, #405 October 1994
1995 44 Interview Excellence Required, Whiners Piss-off Bloodsongs, Winter 1995
March 1995 40 Essay The View from Carcosa (Deathrealm, Spring 1995) Deathrealm, Spring 1995
April 1995 5 Short Fiction Gremlin Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction, April-May 1995
July 1995 16 Review The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1995
May 1998 29 Review Exorcisms and Ecstasies The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998
October 1998 55 Review Exorcisms and Ecstasies Interzone, October 1998
December 1998 12 Review Exorcisms and Ecstasies Realms of Fantasy, December 1998
2002 10 Review Gods in Darkness Weird Tales, Fall 2002
October 2002 53 Review Gods in Darkness Locus, #501 October 2002
January 2003 55 Review Red Harvest Locus, #504 January 2003
February 2004 Review Midnight Sun Realms of Fantasy, February 2004
April 2004 45 Review The Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane Cemetery Dance, #48, 2004
August 2008 215 Interview Against a Hostile World Flashing Swords, Summer 2008
2010 6 Essay KEW's Three by Thirteen The Paperback Fanatic #16, 2010
2012 178 Interview Excellence Demanded, Whiners Piss Off The Last Interview of Karl Edward Wagner The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2012
May 2012 22 Review Walk on the Wild Side: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, Volume 2 Locus, #616 May 2012
May 2012 22 Review Where the Summer Ends: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, Volume 1 Locus, #616 May 2012
December 2016 126 Review The Book of Kane Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, #57
September 2017 Short Fiction Where the Summer Ends Pseudopod, #560
October 2021 146 Poem Mourning of the Following Day Phantasmagoria Special Edition Series, October 2021
October 2021 106 Short Fiction Sing a Last Song of Valdese Phantasmagoria Special Edition Series, October 2021
October 2021 20 Interview The Darkness Weaver Phantasmagoria Special Edition Series, October 2021
2024 265 Essay The Fantasy Five-Foot Shelf The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2024

47 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1970 Novel Darkness Weaves with Many Shades ... Karl Edward Wagner
1973 Collection Death Angel's Shadow Karl Edward Wagner
1975 Novel Bloodstone Karl Edward Wagner
1976 Novel Dark Crusade Karl Edward Wagner
1976 Novel Legion from the Shadows Karl Edward Wagner
1978 Novel Darkness Weaves Karl Edward Wagner
1978 Collection Night Winds Karl Edward Wagner
1979 Novel The Road of Kings Karl Edward Wagner
1980 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VIII Karl Edward Wagner
1981 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IX Karl Edward Wagner
1982 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X Karl Edward Wagner
1983 Collection In a Lonely Place Karl Edward Wagner
1983 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI Karl Edward Wagner
1984 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII Karl Edward Wagner
1985 Novel Killer David Drake & Karl Edward Wagner
1985 Collection The Book of Kane Karl Edward Wagner
1985 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII Karl Edward Wagner
1986 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories VIII Karl Edward Wagner
1986 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV Karl Edward Wagner
1986 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: X Karl Edward Wagner
1986 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XI Karl Edward Wagner
1987 Anthology Echoes of Valor Karl Edward Wagner
1987 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV Karl Edward Wagner
1987 Collection Why Not You and I? Karl Edward Wagner
1988 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI Karl Edward Wagner
1989 Anthology Echoes of Valor II Karl Edward Wagner
1989 Omnibus Horrorstory: Volume Five Karl Edward Wagner
1989 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII Karl Edward Wagner
1989 Collection Unthreatened by the Morning Light Karl Edward Wagner
1990 Omnibus Horrorstory: Volume Four Karl Edward Wagner
1990 Anthology Intensive Scare Karl Edward Wagner
1990 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII Karl Edward Wagner
1991 Anthology Echoes of Valor III Karl Edward Wagner
1991 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XIX Karl Edward Wagner
1991 Chapbook Where the Summer Ends Karl Edward Wagner
1992 Omnibus Horrorstory: Volume Three Karl Edward Wagner & Gerald W. Page
1992 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XX Karl Edward Wagner
1993 Novel Darkness Weaves with Many Shades Karl Edward Wagner
1993 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXI Karl Edward Wagner
1994 Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII Karl Edward Wagner
1997 Collection Exorcisms and Ecstasies Karl Edward Wagner
2002 Omnibus Gods in Darkness Karl Edward Wagner
2002 Collection Red Harvest Karl Edward Wagner
2003 Collection Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane Karl Edward Wagner
2011 Collection Karl Edward Wagner: Masters of the Weird Tale Karl Edward Wagner
2012 Collection Walk on the Wild Side Karl Edward Wagner
2012 Collection Where the Summer Ends Karl Edward Wagner

At one time thought to have been born December 12, 1946. A common misconception is that Wagner died on October 13, 1994. He actually died on the 14th. A photograph of his gravestone can be seen in the link below. https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2019/10/14/karl-edward-wagner-a-cimmerian-remembrance

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