Karl Edward Wagner
| Full Name: |
Karl
Edward
Wagner |
| Born: |
December 4, 1945
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA |
| Died: |
October 13, 1994
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA |
| Occupation: |
Writer, Editor, Publisher |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
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 dark fantasy and horror stories. 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 genre-defining Year's Best Horror and Fantasy series. His Carcosa publishing company issued four volumes of the best stories by some of the major authors of the so-called Golden Age pulp magazines. He is possibly best known for his creation of a series of stories featuring the character Kane the Mystic Swordsman.
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