Karl Edward Wagner Books in Order
Karl Edward Wagner is a multifaceted American writer, editor, and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Wagner initially pursued a career in psychiatry, but his disillusionment with the medical field is reflected in his works, such as "The Fourth Seal" and "Into Whose Hands". His worldview is characterized by nihilistic, anarchistic, and absurdist undertones, often humorously expressed. Wagner's influences extend beyond literature, with a notable admiration for the cinema of Sam Peckinpah, particularly "The Wild Bunch", which he has described as an object of worship.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Karl Edward Wagner
- #1AmazonThe Old Funny Stuff (By: George Alec Effinger)(1989)
- #2AmazonDaily Voices (By: Lisa Goldstein)(1989)
- #3AmazonHeroines (By: James Patrick Kelly)(1990)
- #4AmazonPeripheral Vision (By: Karen Joy Fowler)(1990)
- #5AmazonSwatting at the Cosmos (By: James K. Morrow)(1990)
- #6AmazonNeon Twilight (By: Edward Bryant)(1990)
- #7AmazonTales from a Vanished Country (By: Elizabeth Lynn)(1990)
- #8AmazonTrue Minds (By: Spider Robinson)(1990)
- #9AmazonHedgework & Guessery (By: Charles de Lint)(1991)
- #10AmazonUnthreatened by the Morning Light(1991)
- #11AmazonStories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy (By: Joe R. Lansdale)(1991)
- #12AmazonNine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe (By: Lewis Shiner)(1991)
- #13AmazonIt's Been Fun (By: Esther M. Friesner)(1991)
- #1AmazonConan the Swordsman (By: L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter,Björn Nyberg)(1978)
- #2AmazonConan the Liberator (By: L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter)(1979)
- #3AmazonConan: The Road of Kings(1979)
- #4AmazonThe Sword of Skelos (By: Andrew J. Offutt)(1979)
- #5AmazonConan and the Spider God (By: L. Sprague de Camp)(1980)
- #6AmazonConan the Rebel (By: Poul Anderson)(1980)
- #7AmazonConan the Barbarian: The Official Motion Picture Adaptation (By: L. Sprague de Camp)(2023)
- #1AmazonThe Hour of the Dragon / Conan the Conquerer (With: Robert E. Howard)(1950)
- #2AmazonThe People of the Black Circle (By: Robert E. Howard)(1974)
- #3AmazonA Witch Shall Be Born (By: Robert E. Howard)(1975)
- #4AmazonThe Tower of the Elephant (By: Robert E. Howard)(1975)
- #5AmazonRed Nails (By: Robert E. Howard)(1975)
- #6AmazonConan in The Devil in Iron (By: Robert E. Howard)(1976)
- #7AmazonRogues in the House Conan (By: Robert E. Howard)(1976)
- #8AmazonQueen of the Black Coast (By: Robert E. Howard)(1978)
- #9AmazonJewels of Gwahlur (By: Robert E. Howard)(1979)
- #10AmazonThe Pool of the Black One (By: Robert E. Howard)(1986)
- #1AmazonA Little Aqua Book of Creature Tails (By: David J. Schow)(2014)
- #2AmazonA Little Black Book of Horror Tales (By: Dennis Etchison)(2014)
- #3AmazonA Little White Book of Ghost Stories (By: Rick Hautala)(2015)
- #4AmazonA Little Blue Book of Bibliomancy (By: Chet Williamson)(2016)
- #5AmazonA Little Ochre Book of Occult Stories(2020)
- #1AmazonKiller (With: David Drake)(1985)
- #2AmazonTell Me, Dark(1992)
- #3AmazonIn the Pines(1973)
- #4AmazonSticks(1974)
- #5AmazonThe Fourth Seal(1975)
- #6AmazonUndertow(1977)
- #7AmazonTwo Suns Setting(1978)
- #8AmazonThe River of Night's Dreaming(1981)
- #9AmazonBeyond Any Measure(1982)
- #10AmazonInto Whose Hands(1983)
- #11AmazonMore Sinned Against(1984)
- #12AmazonOld Loves(1985)
- #13AmazonShrapnel(1985)
- #14AmazonBlue Lady, Come Back(1985)
- #15AmazonEndless Night(1987)
- #16AmazonAt First Just Ghostly(1989)
- #17AmazonBut You\'ll Never Follow Me(1990)
- #18AmazonDid They Get You to Trade?(1992)
- #19AmazonDeep in the Depths of the Acme Warehouse(1994)
- #20AmazonI've Come to Talk with You Again(1995)
- #21AmazonPlan 10 from Inner Space(1996)
- #22AmazonNeither Brute Nor Human(2012)
- #23AmazonIn a Lonely Place(1983)
- #24AmazonWhy Not You And I?(1987)
- #25AmazonMasters of the Weird Tale: Karl Edward Wagner(2011)
- #26AmazonRed Harvest(2002)
- #1AmazonThe Year's Best Horror 01(1972)
- #2AmazonThe Year's Best Horror 02(1974)
- #3AmazonWhispers, Vol. 2, No. 2-3, June 1975(1975)
- #4AmazonThe Year's Best Horror 03(1975)
- #5AmazonNight Chills(1975)
- #6AmazonWhispers(1977)
- #7AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V(1977)
- #8AmazonThe Year's Best Fantasy Stories 3(1977)
- #9AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI(1978)
- #10AmazonNew Terrors Vol. 1(1980)
- #11AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories Series VIII(1980)
- #12AmazonThe Year's Best Horror 08(1980)
- #13AmazonDark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror(1980)
- #14AmazonWhispers Three(1981)
- #15AmazonThe Year's Best Horror IX(1981)
- #16AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI(1983)
- #17AmazonThe Year's Best Fantasy Stories 10(1984)
- #18AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII(1984)
- #19AmazonWhispers V(1985)
- #20AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories(1985)
- #21AmazonThe Years Best Horror Stories XIV(1986)
- #22AmazonBarbarians(1986)
- #23AmazonMasters of Darkness(1986)
- #24AmazonVolume I: The Color of Evil(1987)
- #25AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories XV(1987)
- #26AmazonGaslight & Ghosts(1988)
- #27AmazonBarbarians 2(1988)
- #28AmazonRobert Adams' Book of Soldiers(1988)
- #29AmazonRipper!(1988)
- #30AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories XVI(1988)
- #31AmazonHorrorstory, Volume 5(1989)
- #32AmazonIntensive Scare(1990)
- #33AmazonBorderlands 1(1990)
- #34AmazonHorrorStory Volume Four(1990)
- #35AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories XVIII(1990)
- #36AmazonBest New Horror(1990)
- #37AmazonHotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror(1991)
- #38AmazonBest New Horror 2(1991)
- #39AmazonHorrorstory(1991)
- #40AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories XIX(1991)
- #41AmazonWalls of Fear(1991)
- #42AmazonBest New Horror 3(1992)
- #43AmazonThe Mammoth Book of Vampires(1992)
- #44AmazonMetaHorror(1992)
- #45AmazonFifth Annual Collection(1992)
- #46AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories XX(1992)
- #47AmazonThe Giant Book of Zombies(1993)
- #48AmazonThe Giant Book of Best New Horror(1993)
- #49AmazonBest New Horror 4(1993)
- #50AmazonSplatterpunks II(1993)
- #51AmazonThe Ultimate Witch(1993)
- #52AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories XXI(1993)
- #53AmazonThe Mammoth Book of Zombies(1993)
- #54AmazonThe Hastur Cycle(1993)
- #55AmazonSouth From Midnight(1994)
- #56AmazonThe Giant Book of Terror(1994)
- #57AmazonThe Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves(1994)
- #58AmazonThe Year's Best Horror Stories XXII(1994)
- #59AmazonBest New Horror 5(1994)
- #60Amazon100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories(1995)
- #61AmazonBest New Horror 6(1995)
- #62AmazonDark Terrors(1995)
- #63AmazonThe Vampire Hunters' Casebook(1996)
- #64AmazonThe Cthulhu Mythos(1997)
- #65AmazonSecret City(1997)
- #66AmazonVampires(1997)
- #67AmazonThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8(1997)
- #68Amazon100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment(1998)
- #69AmazonA Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic(2002)
- #70AmazonThe Mammoth Book of New Terror(2004)
- #71AmazonBlack Prometheus: A Critical Study of Karl Edward Wagner(2007)
- #72AmazonSummer Chills(2007)
- #73AmazonThe Mammoth Book of Monsters(2007)
- #74AmazonHaunts: Reliquaries of the Dead(2011)
- #75AmazonThe Sword & Sorcery Anthology(2012)
- #76AmazonThe Book of Cthulhu II(2012)
- #77AmazonFlotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013(2013)
- #78AmazonLovecraft's Monsters(2014)
- #79AmazonDarker Terrors 7(2016)
- #80AmazonIn the Shadow of Frankenstein(2016)
- #81AmazonThe Mammoth Book of Folk Horror(2021)
About Karl Edward Wagner
Karl Edward Wagner is a multifaceted American writer, editor, and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Wagner initially pursued a career in psychiatry, but his disillusionment with the medical field is reflected in his works, such as "The Fourth Seal" and "Into Whose Hands". His worldview is characterized by nihilistic, anarchistic, and absurdist undertones, often humorously expressed. Wagner's influences extend beyond literature, with a notable admiration for the cinema of Sam Peckinpah, particularly "The Wild Bunch", which he has described as an object of worship.
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