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Karl Edward Wagner (1945–1994)

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Werken van Karl Edward Wagner

Conan: The Road of Kings (1979) 310 exemplaren
Darkness Weaves (1970) 305 exemplaren
Bloodstone (1974) 298 exemplaren
Dark Crusade (1976) 262 exemplaren
Killer (1985) 261 exemplaren
Night Winds (1978) 230 exemplaren
Death Angel's Shadow (1973) 224 exemplaren
In a Lonely Place (1983) 133 exemplaren
Legion from the Shadows (1976) 111 exemplaren
Echoes of Valor (1987) — Redacteur — 76 exemplaren
The Book of Kane (1985) 65 exemplaren
Why Not You and I? (1987) 61 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VIII (1980) — Redacteur — 59 exemplaren
Tell Me, Dark (1992) 58 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII (1990) — Redacteur — 58 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IX (1981) — Redacteur — 55 exemplaren
Echoes of Valor II (1989) — Redacteur — 51 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII (1985) — Redacteur — 50 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X (1982) — Redacteur — 48 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XIX (1991) — Redacteur — 47 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV (1986) — Redacteur — 46 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI (1983) — Redacteur — 46 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII (1994) — Redacteur — 42 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXI (1993) — Redacteur — 41 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI (1988) — Redacteur — 41 exemplaren
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XX (1992) — Redacteur — 36 exemplaren
Echoes of Valor III (1991) — Redacteur — 35 exemplaren
Exorcisms and Ecstasies (1997) 33 exemplaren
Savage Heroes: Tales of Sorcery and Black Magic (1977) — Medewerker — 19 exemplaren
Intensive Scare (1990) — Redacteur — 16 exemplaren
Horrorstory (1989) 12 exemplaren
Unthreatened by the Morning Light (1989) 11 exemplaren
Horrorstory: Volume Four (1990) 8 exemplaren
Sticks {novelette} (1974) 8 exemplaren
Ravens Eyrie (1977) 7 exemplaren
Kane (Tome 1): L'intégrale (2007) 7 exemplaren
Undertow (1977) 7 exemplaren
Two Suns Setting (1976) 6 exemplaren
HorrorStory Volume Three (1991) — Redacteur — 5 exemplaren
Kane : L'intégrale : Tome 2 (2008) 4 exemplaren
Sing a Last Song of Valdese (1976) 4 exemplaren
Sign of the Salamander (1975) 3 exemplaren
The Gothic Touch 3 exemplaren
The Dark Muse (1975) 3 exemplaren
Beyond Any Measure 3 exemplaren
Misericorde 3 exemplaren
In The Lair Of Yslsl (1974) 2 exemplaren
KANE (5 VOLUMES) (2015) 2 exemplaren
Blue Lady Come Back 2 exemplaren
Kane. La saga (2022) 2 exemplaren
Lacunae 2 exemplaren
Red Harvest 2 exemplaren
Die Schattenburg 2 exemplaren
Lynortis' Vergeltung (1974) 2 exemplaren
One Paris Night 2 exemplaren
Into Whose Hands 2 exemplaren
The Other One 2 exemplaren
Pajęczyna utkana z ciemności (1991) 1 exemplaar
In the Pines {short story} (1973) 1 exemplaar
El medallon 1995 1 exemplaar
Locked Away 1 exemplaar
Midnight Sun 1 exemplaar
More sinned against 1 exemplaar
Diagnose: Exitus (1994) 1 exemplaar
Final Cut 1 exemplaar
Endless Night 1 exemplaar
.220 Swift 1 exemplaar

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Three stories of death for Kane. Cold light was not on par with Mirage and Reflections for the Winter of my Soul.
Kane is a glorious sword and sorcery character that also explores the the philosophical questions of life and death. Truly more than what is expected with a curious glance. Delve deeper and enjoy the world of Kane.
 
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Sword and sorcery at it's best. Kane is not a good guy!
 
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This 2023 edition of the 1983 collection of Karl Edward Wagner's short horror fiction comes with a brief new introduction by Ramsey Campbell, which references certain sources and influences in addition to recounting personal conversation with the author. The book is a collection of eight of the best stories of its genre to have been written in the second half of the twentieth century.

"In the Pines" is in many respects--and by internal admission--an updating of the 1911 Oliver Onions story "The Beckoning Fair One." It has all of the evil inexorability of Onions' tale with none of its quaint moral circumspection.

"Where the Summer Ends" similarly shows roots in earlier weird fiction, riffing on the Little People of Arthur Machen's stories such as "The Shining Pyramid," but using an American setting familiar to Wagner, and enriched with believable late-20th-century characters.

The epistolary elements of "Sticks" and the character of its conspiracy is very reminiscent of one of my favorite Lovecraft stories, "The Whisperer in Darkness." Its factual basis makes it very eerie indeed!

"The Fourth Seal" is about scientific research and inspired by Wagner's time in medical school, but it is really an incisive and dismaying political parable.

The well-twisted revenge tale "More Sinned Against" is told with understated and economical prose. Like some of the other stories in this collection, though perhaps to a greater degree, it gives unflinching accounts of drug abuse and sexual exploitation.

".220 Swift" returns to the Machenesque in more of a pulp action mode, tying in Robert E. Howard's ideas about Bran Mak Morn and an assortment of other lore. This piece is a very full novella with multiple arcs and resolutions.

"The River of Night's Dreaming" is in the jauniste mode, drawing on the mythemes founded in Robert W. Chambers' The Yellow Sign. It's evidently the only story in which Wagner mined this particular vein, but for my money, the puzzle-box narrative it offers is one of the best examples of the form. It offers a very unreliable viewpoint character whose homicidal madness is perhaps of a piece with a desire to turn back time, even while her memories are inaccessible or impaired, and time itself might be the very river of night's dreaming, which permits only a little swim upstream before the swimmer is exhausted.

The final story "Beyond Any Measure" shares the source for its title with "The River of Night's Dreaming" in the libretto of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This one concerns reincarnation and combines it in an unexpected way with a supremely traditional sort of gothic horror in a 1980s London setting.

Wagner's own afterword discusses his authorial process and some surprising details about his intent in stories that can be very murky about the "actual" conditions that they are describing and the messages he sought to convey.
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One in a long running series, this was published in 1985 to showcase the best stories of 1984. Not all are what I would catagorise as horror: for example, Mrs Todd's Shortcut by Stephen King is about ageing, loss, new beginnings and other dimensions, and would perhaps fit better in a fantasy collection, which is not to minimise its impact as a great story. Similarly, Dinner Party by Gardner Dozois is an alternative future tale in which the United States is building up to a second Civil War, but foregrounds a story of the horror of what human beings can do to each other mentally and emotionally as well as physically.

Tiger in the Snow by Daniel Wynn Barber is a poignant story of a young boy's last hours, while The Thing in the Bedroom by David Langford is a tongue in cheek story which makes fun of the cliches of the genre. The End of the World by James B Hemesath, set in a remote part of the USA that is suffering a long drought, is another story of the horrific crimes human beings perpetrate against each other. Never Grow Up, one of two stories by John Gordon in this volume, is also in this vein and takes the form of a young boy telling the story of his life with his parents to the grave of a long-dead girl. Fred Chappell's Weird Tales is a Cthulhu Mythos tale with a twist in which the real life characters of H P Lovecraft and others appear.

Stories that "fit" the traditional genre include Daniel S Schow's Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You about an embittered Vietnam veteran and Leslie Halliwell's Hands with Long Fingers, a traditional story of supernatural vengeance. Talking in the Dark by Dennis Etchison is a rather nasty story where a reclusive and socially awkward fan gets the chance to meet the author whose work he idolises. The other stories in the collection are fairly standard supernatural revenge type tales, but for the standout stories that don't fit a formula, the collection merits 4 stars.
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