Appendix Z - Karl
Edward Wagner
If
there is reincarnation then Robert E. Howard was reborn as this man. Wagner was
a hell of a writer. His Kane books fall somewhere beside Howard's Conan,
somewhere down a dark and twisted version of Earth and Hyperborea where man is
just the latest and far from the most powerful occupier of the planet, where
raw strength, intelligence and determination follow a nightmare path of sorcery
and death.
As
much as I love the Kane stories it was reading two of his Weird Tales style
anthologies that I came to appreciate the talent and versatility of Wagner.
Pulp stories, Lovecraftian stories, horror and adventure and just damn weird
stories.
If
I were to pick one story I'd say Bloodstone. For me it is the best of the Kane
tales and Kane strikes a deeper chord for me than any of the others, but
honestly, it is hard to go wrong with his work. Some shines out a bit more,
like 'Sticks' but these are good stories from a great writer.
Poetry
Red
Harvest
Songs
of the Damned
Stories
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Swift
A
Walk on the Wild Side
An
Awareness of Angels
At
First Just Ghostly
Beyond
Any Measure
Blue
Lady, Come Back
Brushed
Away
But
You'll Never Follow Me
Cedar
Lane
The
Coming of Ghor
The
Dark Muse
Deep
in the Depths of the Acme Warehouse
Did
They Get You to Trade?
The
Education of Gergy-doo-doo
Endless
Night
Exorcisms
and Ecstasies
A
Fair Cop
Final
Cut
The
Gothic Touch
Gremlin
Hell
Creek
I’ve
Come to Talk With You Again
In
a Lonely Place
In
the Lair of Yslsl
In
the Middle of a Snow Dream
In
the Pines
In
the Wake of the Night
Into
Whose Hands
Killer
(with David Drake)
The
Kind Men Like
Lacunae
Legion
from the Shadows
Little
Lessons in Gardening
Locked
Away
More
Sinned Against
Neither
Brute Nor Human
Old
Loves
One
Paris Night
The
Other Woman as by "Kent Allard"
Passages
The
Picture of Jonathan Collins
Plan
10 From Inner Space
Prince
of the Punks
The
River of Night’s Dreaming
The
Road of Kings
Satan’s
Gun
Shrapnel
Sing
a Last Song of Valdese
The
Slug
Stardust
Sticks
The
Treasure of Lynortis
Two
Suns Setting
Undertow
Unthreatened
by the Morning Light
Walk
on the Wild Side
Where
the Summer Ends
Why
Not You and I?
Kane
Darkness
Weaves
Death
Angel's Shadow
Bloodstone
Dark
Crusade
Night
Winds
The
Book of Kane
Gods
in Darkness
Midnight
Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane
