🎤 Karl Edward Wagner – Artist Profile

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🎤 Artist Karl Edward Wagner 🌎 Country

(US) • Born Wed 12 Dec 1945 ♐ (48 years, 10 months, 2 days, 17838 total living days) • R.I.P. Fri 14 Oct 1994 (80 years, 5 months, 20 days, 29392 total living and posthuman days)

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Karl Edward Wagner 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. 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 The Year’s Best Horror Stories series for DAW Books (1974-94). Fun facts of non-Cirith stuff of the books:

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series III with artwork Michael Whelan (Jul 1975) – re-release “The First Orbit Book of Horror Stories“. Later on the album cover Stratovarius – Fright Night (1989)
The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series X with artwork Michael Whelan (Aug 1982) – “Destroying Angel“. Later on the compilation album cover Sacred Rite/Sabre (early band) – Rites of Passage Vol. 2 (2002, re-released from 1980’s) and 2014 with also Whelan.
Dark Crusade (Dec 1976) with artwork Frank Frazetta. Later on Molly Hatchet’s cover Flirtin’ with Disaster (Sep 1979).
The Cirith Ungol song Darkness Weaves is originally written by Karl Edward Wagner, re-issued cover artwork by Frank Frazetta (1978)
Another artist Michael Whelan has painted some of his books.

Bloodstone:

I was also pretty much influenced by the books I was reading at the time like the “Elric” and “Conan” series. Although I had not read much at the time I am reading quite a bit of H.P. Lovecraft now. His stories are fantastic!!! Another book that comes to mind is “Bloodstone” by Karl Edward Wagner.

Rob