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     Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Thought there might be a few folk here interested in this: http://www.britishfantasysociety.co.uk/reviews/karl-edward-wagner-an-interview-f or-dark-troubadour/ The guy who did the interview in 1994 (thought to be KEW's last interview before his untimely death) has just given the BFS permission to reprint it. There's also a new KEW collection out from Centipede Press (expensive!!) - see my other posting about that on the BFS site. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.250.213 |
Thanks for that, Caroline - I had the pleasure of a few drinks with Karl on a couple of occasions, he with a Jack Daniels, of course! One time was in the bar at Euston station when me and my then girlfriend were going to FCon in Birmingham in the mid 'eighties and Steve Jones and Karl came over to say hello and we had a nice chat for some time. Lovely fellow he was, and a great loss. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Apart from M.R. James and E.F. Benson collections, Karl Edward Wagner was the only other horror writer whose books I was allowed to take out. Strange policy, but true, and I guess not half bad for a supposed legendary authoritarian. I wasn't allowed to take out Stephen King books. If only she'd know about the contents of the others. KEW, part of my horror education and my childhood. | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.25.141.120 |
I have the entire of run of the DAW Best Horror series, most of which he edited. The series was discontinued after he passed. An excellent author and great anthologist. "River of Night's Dreaming" is one of my favorite stories of his. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.250.213 |
I have all those too, Thomas - the first one (edited by Clarence Paget?) I seem to recall having The Events at Poroth Farm in it, my introduction to T.E.D. Klein. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.250.213 |
...having said that I think they only became DAW books after the third, and that the first three were UK publications, but age and alcohol have ruined my memory! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.7.166 |
The first one I'm sure was edited by Richard Davis. It was great. Those first three books had Ramsey Campbell's 'Napier Court'... Harlan Ellison's 'The Whimper of Whipped Dogs'... Brian Lumley's 'Haggopian'... Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Inspired by your reminiscing, Joel, I pulled out (from its box-grave) my The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series II, indeed edited by Richard Davis (and foreword by Christopher Lee!)... contains two stories by the landlord, including the other one "The Old Horns," and two by Brian Lumley, including the other one "David's Worm"... Robert Bloch and T.E.D. Klein, and - well, who exactly is T.K. Brown III?*... I made some coffee and sat down and re-read "Napier Court," on this cold dreary uneventful mid-November evening... life doesn't get much better than that (well, for me, not for Alma!) *(In fact, T.K. Brown III's story from this collection, "Haunts of the Very Rich," was made into a 1972 TV movie, starring Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, and Ed Asner.) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.254.46 |
Yep, you're quite right, Joel - it was Richard Davis. Clarence Paget was the chap who took over the Pan books of horror after van Thal died, I think. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>Clarence Paget was the chap who took over the Pan books of horror after van Thal died, I think.<< He was indeed, Mick. I must admit my only knowledge of Karl Wagner is from the Year's Best Horror series which he edited. I don't think I've ever read one of his own stories. Might be wrong though - I may have read one without realising. I found it quite poignant reading that interview with him. All those plans he had for the future at the time ...  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I just realised that my post on this thread was as usual unclear. I was talking about the library in my mum's village. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.20.1 |
Alas, Caroline, I fear that even had Karl lived some of those plans wouldn't have come to fruition. |