Today has been…a day. I’ll go into detail later when I have actual information. Because of some personal things, I almost missed two birthdays today.
Karl Edward Wagner was born on December 4, 1945. He’s no stranger around these here parts. Creator of the legendary Kane, a first tier horror author, and an editor who strove to make Robert E. Howard’s Conan available in affordable editions rather than the bowdlerized stories that were available in the late 70s, editor of the Year’s Best Horror anthologies for DAW, and cofounder of Carcosa Press, Karl Edward Wagner casts a long shadow over the field.
I need to read more Wagner. There’s still quite a bit out there that I haven’t read, including some Kane.
The other author, Cornell Woolrich, didn’t write much in the way of the fantastic, but he’s still a writer you’re going to want to read. Born in 1903, Woolrich wrote mysteries and suspense, a number with macabre overtones. The first Woolrich novel I ever read, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, is about a millionaire who is told by a gypsy fortune teller that he will die at the mouth of a lion. And then a lion escapes from a circus…
Both of these men should be in your libraries. Check them out.
I hope the days events weren’t too dire, Keith.
Wagner may’ve read some Woolrich…
http://leogrin.com/CimmerianBlog/jane-browns-body-and-undertow/
Thanks. It’s medical. I’ll post about it next week when I have more information. At this point it could be nothing. We just have to wait on results.
Thanks for the link. I’ve not read that particular Woolrich story, but “Undertow” is a classic, IMO. I’ll have to read the Woolrich story. I know I have a copy.
Hope it’s nothing to serious.
All the Kane books are available as e-books so you don’t have to pay exorbitant prices on the internet for them. I have a few Wagner books including Kane with the Frazetta covers, but the prices you pay online are ridiculous. I got Wagner’s In A Lonely Place for a few bucks, but it goes for over a hundred online.
Thanks. The degree of seriousness is TBD. No one is freaking out at the moment, so that’s a good thing.
I managed to score Wagner’s non-Kane stuff for reasonable prices years ago, and I’ve got both the Nightshade and Centipede editions of the Kane books, as well as most of the paperbacks. I may pick up the ebooks just to have on my Kindle so I can read them when the urge hits me.
Fingers crossed.
Thank you.