Walk on the Wild Side: The Best Horror Stories by Karl Edward Wagner, Vol 2

✍ Scribed by Wagner, Karl Edward

• Publisher: Centipede Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 448 KB
• Series: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner 2
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The second volume of Karl Edward Wagner's horror fiction collects much of his shorter and painfully explicit later work, including such stories as "Little Lessons in Gardening," "Slug," "Prince of the Punks," "More Sinned Against" and other disturbing tales by an acknowledged master of the genre with an acidic and wry sense of humor. Includes a Foreword by Peter Straub, and an Afterword by David Drake.

From the Inside Flap

To most modern readers, Karl Edward Wagner is best known as the author of a series of brutal yet intelligent heroic fantasy novels and stories about Kane, The Mystic Swordsman.

However, he was also a master of the horror story, with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the genre that was reflected in his many articles on the subject, along with his editorship of the seminalYear's Best Horror Stories series for DAW Books.

Having trained as a psychiatrist, Wagner's horror fiction often dealt with themes of paranoia and bizarre eroticism, while also drawing upon ancient folklore and the pulp magazine tradition to create a body of work that has rarely been surpassed amongst practitioners of contemporary terror tales.

Now Centipede Press has brought together all of Karl Edward Wagner's horror and dark fantasy novellas and short stories into two handsome collections compiled by his friend and colleague Stephen Jones.