Karl Edward Wagner

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Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 – 14 October 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. He wrote numerous stories in the dark fantasy and horror genres, and seven novels. He is possibly best known for his creation of a series of stories featuring the character Kane. As an editor, he created a three-volume set of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian fiction restored to its original form as written, and edited the long-running and influental The Year's Best Horror Stories series for DAW Books from 1980 to 1994. Wagner's Carcosa publishing company issued four volumes of the best stories by some of the major authors of the so-called Golden Age pulp magazines. Although he held a degree in psychiatry, he became disillusioned with the medical profession, a disenchantment evident in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into Whose Hands". He described...

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