Awards & Winners

Karl Edward Wagner

Date of Birth 12-December-1945
Place of Birth Knoxville
(Knox County, Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains, United States of America, Area code 865)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist
Karl Edward Wagner was an award-winning American writer, poet, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. He wrote numerous dark fantasy and horror stories. As an editor, he created a three-volume set of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian fiction restored to its original form as written, and edited the long-running and genre-defining Year's Best Horror and Fantasy series. His Carcosa publishing house issued four volumes of the best stories by some of the major figures of the Golden Age pulps. He is possibly best known for his creation of the long-running series of stories featuring Kane, the Mystic Swordsman. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into Whose Hands". He described his world view as nihilistic, anarchistic and absurdist, and claimed, not entirely seriously, to be related to "an opera composer named Richard". Wagner also admired the cinema of Sam Peckinpah, stating "I worship the film The Wild Bunch".

Awards by Karl Edward Wagner

Check all the awards nominated and won by Karl Edward Wagner.

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection Exorcisms and Ecstasies

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXI

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XX

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XVIII

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection Why Not You and I?
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XIV

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII

1983


World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
Honored for : Beyond Any Measure

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Beyond Any Measure
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella The River of Night's Dreaming
Locus Award for Best Anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IX