I am afraid that alcohol took its toll on his stories too. Karl Edward Wagner died of “heart and liver failure” at the age of 49. But Wagner was well known for something else too: his prodigious, homicidal appetite for hard liquor, an appetite that cost him his marriage and-ultimately-his life.
He is best remembered for: creating the well-read, sharp-tongued, amoral barbarian Kane editing the most influential mainstream horror anthology (“The Year's Best Horror Stories”) from 1980 to 1994 publishing small press editions of some of the best vintage horror (Carcosa) and-most important-writing some of the best horror stories and novellas of the '70's and '80's. He soon decided, however, that he despised physicians and detested psychiatry, and therefore abandoned medicine for writing. He was, however, far from the average good ole boy himself: his father was a big wig at the TVA, and Karl earned degrees in history from Kenyon and psychiatric medicine from Chapel Hill. Wagner was a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, and many of his best stories-particularly the early ones-are steeped in Southern atmosphere. And it is only one small sign of the influence of legendary author and editor Karl Edward Wagner.
In the first season of True Detective, do you remember those weird constructions of sticks that seemed to pop up everywhere? Well, “Sticks,” one of the stories in this book, is where those things come from.
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