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HORRORSTORY: VOLUME FIVE.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover editions. Omnibus edition of 55 stories from The Year's Best Horror Stories, Volumes 13-15, first published as paperback originals (1985-1987). The series drew on traditional and obscure sources. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-421.
HORRORSTORY: VOLUME FIVE.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, leather. First hardcover editions. Copy number 1 of 350 copies signed by the editor Karl Wagner and thirty-two of the contributors, including Fred Chapell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Joe Lansdale, Simon Clark, Dennis Etchison, William F. Nolan and others. Omnibus edition of 55 stories from The Year's Best Horror Stories, Volumes 13-15, first published as paperback originals (1985-1987). The series drew on traditional and obscure sources. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-421.
ECHOES OF VALOR II.
[New York]: TOR, [1987]. Small octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of heroic fantasy, most first printed in pulp or amateur magazines. Authors include Robert E. Howard, C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury, Manly Wade Wellman and Henry Kuttner.
ECHOES OF VALOR.
[New York]: TOR, [1987]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Signed inscription by Wagner on the title page. Collects three stories "The Black Stranger" by Robert E. Howard, "Adept's Gambit" by Fritz Leiber and "Wet Magic" by Henry Kuttner. The Howard story is a Conan story, this is the first publication as Howard originally wrote it.
TELL ME, DARK.
[New York]. DC Comics, [1992]. Large octavo, illustrated by Kent Williams, boards. First edition. Graphic novel. A young man tries to find his lost girlfriend and a gets involved with dark magic. Wagner involvement is that he originally penned the script but the editor wanted major changes. Wagner was let go from the project and John Reiber did the re-write to fit the new version.
THE BOOK OF KANE.
[West Kingston, RI]: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects five Kane stories. Sword and Sorcery.
DARKNESS WEAVES.
[London]: Coronet Books / Hodder and Stoughton, [1978]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British edition. Signed inscription by Wagner on the title page. This is the full text, the Powell books edition (1970) was "butchered by the publisher and reduced by half its text." - Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 583-584. Kane is an immortal anti-hero in the vein of Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane and Michael Moorcock's Elric. "For dark and brooding despair, heroic fantasy has no better example. Kane is no hero: he is depicted as an intelligent but determined villain, out to seek his own form of justice." and "They are amongst the more intelligent works of heroic fantasy" - Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 583-584.
DEATH'S ANGEL'S SHADOW.
[London]: Coronet Books / Hodder and Stoughton, [1980]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British edition. Collects three Kane novellas. Kane is an immortal anti-hero in the vein of Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane and Michael Moorcock's Elric. "For dark and brooding despair, heroic fantasy has no better example. Kane is no hero: he is depicted as an intelligent but determined villain, out to seek his own form of justice." and "They are amongst the more intelligent works of heroic fantasy" - Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 583-584.
EXORCISMS AND ECSTASIES.
Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer, [1997]. Octavo, illustrated by J. K. Potter, cloth. First edition. Posthumous collection of the author's work which was compiled just before his death. This collection includes all his uncollected work as well as two unpublished stories. Winner of the Bram Stoker award for best collection. Edited by Stephen Jones.
EXORCISMS AND ECSTASIES.
Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer, [1997]. Octavo, illustrated by J. K. Potter, cloth. First edition. Posthumous collection of the author's work which was compiled just before his death. This collection includes all his uncollected work as well as two unpublished stories. Winner of the Bram Stoker award for best collection. Edited by Stephen Jones.
EXORCISMS AND ECSTASIES.
Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer, [1997]. Octavo, illustrated by J. K. Potter, cloth. First edition. Posthumous collection of the author's work which was compiled just before his death. This collection includes all his uncollected work as well as two unpublished stories. Winner of the Bram Stoker award for best collection. Edited by Stephen Jones.
SONGS OF THE DAMNED: FANTASY VERSE BY...
[Knoxville, TN]: The Silver Eel Press and Village Printers, [1981]. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies this is one of the first 50 copies which are signed by Wagner. Collects nine poems.
SONGS OF THE DAMNED: FANTASY VERSE BY...
[Knoxville, TN]: The Silver Eel Press and Village Printers, [1981]. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies. This copy specially signed and inscribed by Wagner to a collector and friend. Collects nine poems.
UNTHREATENED BY THE MORNING LIGHT.
[Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, 1989]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Of 350 copies this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Wagner. Collects three stories with an introduction by Wagner. Issued as Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Two, November 1989.
WHY NOT YOU AND I?
Arlington Hgts. IL: Dark Harvest, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Signed inscription by Wagner on the title page. Collects eleven stories including "Lucunae" and "Lost Exits," that were not printed in the 1987 Tor edition, the latter first published here. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-381. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-310.
CHACAL.
Shawnee Mission, KS: Daemon Graphics, 1977. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Amateur magazine of Fantasy and SF. Includes the first publication of the Kane story "Raven's Eyrie" by Karl Edward Wagner, signed at the head of the story by Wagner. Also includes a story by Pat Cadigan.
ESCAPE!
Huntsville, AL: Charles W. Melvin, 1977. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Amateur magazine. Includes a Kane story, "The Other One," which is signed by Wagner at the head of the story. First publication of this story.
MIDNIGHT SUN.
Birmingham, England: Stephen Jones, 1979. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Magazine. Signed inscription by Wagner at the head of his contribution the poem "Mourning of the Following Day."
MIDNIGHT SUN.
Birmingham, England: Stephen Jones, 1981. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Magazine. Includes the Kane story "The Other One" by Karl Edward Wagner.
MIDNIGHT SUN.
[Columbus, OH: Gary Hoppenstand, 1974]. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Magazine. Signed inscription by Wagner on the first page, also signed by artist John Mayer, artist Lee Brown Coye and author David Drake. The first issue of this short lived magazine is devoted to Karl Edward Wagner. It includes the part one of the unedited version of the first Kane novel, DARKNESS WEAVES. Additionally a short story by David Drake re-written by Wagner, "Killer," signed inscription by Drake at the head of the story. Also included is a contribution by Manly Wade Wellman on the character of Kane as well as Wagner's first Kane as it was originally written, circa 1961-62, "Lynortis Reprise."
MIDNIGHT SUN.
[Columbus, OH: Gary Hoppenstand, 1975]. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Magazine. Signed inscription by Wagner on the first page, also signed inscription by artist George Chastain, and signed inscription by author David Drake at the head of his story. Includes part two of the unedited version of the first Kane novel, DARKNESS WEAVES and the Kane story "The Dark Muse." Also fiction by Carl Jacobi and Robert Weinberg.
MIDNIGHT SUN.
[Columbus, OH: Gary Hoppenstand, 1975]. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Magazine. Includes part two of the unedited version of the first Kane novel, DARKNESS WEAVES and the Kane story "The Dark Muse." "
NIGHT VIEWS.
Ft. Worth, TX: Simba Reproductions, 1978. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Amateur magazine of Fantasy and SF. Includes outline for a unpublished Conan novel "Day of the Lion" by Karl Edward Wagner.
THE SILVER EEL.
Evensville, TN: Robert P. Barger, 1978. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Amateur magazine devoted to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Includes "Address To The Lankhmar Literary Guild" by Karl Edward Wagner.
CHACAL.
Shawnee Mission, KS: Nemedian Chronicles, 1976. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Amateur magazine of Fantasy and SF. Includes the first publication of "Sing A Last Song of Valdese" by Karl Edward Wagner, signed at the head of the story by Wagner. Also included is the first publication of the Robert E. Howard story, "Road of Azrael." Other fiction by Howard Waldrop and Tom Reamy, both have signed at the heads of their stories. Also signed by artist Tim Kirk. Also an interview with C.L. Moore.