Guide to the Karl Edward Wagner Papers , circa 1968-1994


John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title: Karl Edward Wagner papers
Date range: circa 1968-1994
Creator: Wagner, Karl Edward
Extent: 9.0 Linear feet
Abstract: The Karl Edward Wagner papers contain fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, correspondence, and financial records. The material dates from 1968 through 1994.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number: Ms.2002.002

Scope & content

The Karl Edward Wagner papers contain literary manuscripts, correspondence and other materials relating to Wagner's own books and writings, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as works and collections edited by Wagner.

The papers are arranged in three series:

Series 1, Fiction, contains the manuscripts of Karl Edward Wagner's fiction arranged in alphabetical order, including holographs and/or ribbon-copy typescripts for all but one "A" item and three "C" items listed in Scott F. Wyatt and Stephen Jones, "Karl Edward Wagner: a working bibliography of English language first editions", in Exorcisms and ecstasies (Minneapolis, Minn.: Fedogan & Bremer, 1997), as well as 12 incomplete or fragmentary items not listed by Wyatt and Jones

Series 2, Nonfiction, includes notes and outlines for fiction works, manuscripts of non-fiction works, files pertaining to Wagner's work as editor, texts of interviews, correspondence, contracts, and sales and royalty records.

Series 3, Writings by others, contains more than 50 manuscripts by Robert Bloch (2), Poppy Z. Brite (2), Hugh B. Cave (3), Manly Wade Wellman (10), and others, principally contributions to The Year's Best Horror Stories.

Access Points

Subject Names Subject Organizations Subject Topics Occupations Document Types Subject Topics

Arrangement

The Karl Edward Wagner papers are arranged in three series:

  • 1. Fiction
  • 2. Nonfiction
  • 3. Writings by others

Biographical note

Karl Edward Wagner was an American psychiatrist who became a full-time writer, publisher, and editor of horror fiction. Born 12 Dec. 1945 in Knoxville, Tenn.; died 30 Sept. 1994 in Chapel Hill, N.C. His works include novels featuring his anti-hero Kane, e.g. Darkness weaves with many shades (1970), Bloodstone (1975), Dark crusade (1976), and Night winds (1978); four collections of horror stories, In a lonely place (1983) and Why not you and I? (1987), Unthreatened by the morining light (1989), and Exorcisms and ecstasies (1997); and other works. He was also editor of The year's best horror stories (vol. 7-22) and founder of Carcosa Press. He won the August Derleth Award (1975, 1977) and Bram Stoker Award (1998), and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award. For further details see biographical essay by Kenneth R. Shepard in Contemporary authors online; for his publications (as author, editor, and publisher) see Scott F. Wyatt and Stephen Jones, "Karl Edward Wagner: a working bibliography of English language first editions", in Karl Edward Wagner, Exorcisms and ecstasies (Minneapolis, Minn.: Fedogan & Bremer, 1997).

Access & Use

Access to the collection: There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.
Use of the materials: Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation: Karl Edward Wagner papers, Ms.2002.002, Brown University Library.
Contact information: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Processing information: Materials in the Karl Edward Wagner papers were physically processed prior to description and extant folder numbering includes gaps. Many of the folders in the collection have multiple components and are numbered, for example, "1, 1a, 1b ..." and so on.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff.
Encoding: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-01-24T15:56-0500
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sponsor: Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Additional Information

Related material: Related material may be found in the Carcosa Press records, Ms.2003.001, Brown University Library; and the Manly Wade Wellman papers, Ms.2007.029, Brown University Library.

Inventory

Series 1. Fiction, 1968-1994
7.0 boxes

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 After the Storm
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 1, Folder 2 Angie of Orgy Farm
Contents Note: 6 folders
Box 1, Folder 3 At First Just Ghostly
Contents Note: 6 folders
Box 1, Folder 4 Awareness of Angels, An
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 1, Folder 5 Beyond Any Measure
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 1, Folder 6 Bloodstone
Contents Note: 8 folders
Box 1, Folder 7 Blue Lady, Come Back
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 1, Folder 8 Book of Kane
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 1, Folder 9 Brushed Away
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 1, Folder 10 But Youll Never Follow Me
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 1, Folder 11 Prospectus for gothic novel
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 1, Folder 12 Cedar Lane
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 1, Folder 13 Cold Light
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 1, Folder 14 Coming of Ghor, The (James Allisons Incarnations pastiche)
Contents Note: 5 folders
Box 1, Folder 15 Conan III (script)
Contents Note: 15 folders
Box 2, Folder 16 Dark Crusade
Contents Note: 9 folders
Box 2, Folder 17 Dark Muse, The
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 2, Folder 18 Darkness Weaves
Contents Note: 13 folders
Box 2, Folder 19 Day of the Lion, The (Conan synopsis)
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 2, Folder 20 Death Angel's Shadow
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 2, Folder 21 Deep In the Depths of the Acme Warehouse
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 2, Folder 22 Delta Group
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 2, Folder 23 Did They Get You To Trade?
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 2, Folder 24 Education of Gergy-Doo-Doo
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder 25 Endless Night
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 3, Folder 26 Exorcisms and Ecstasies (dedication)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder 27 Final Cut
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder 28 Fourth Seal, The
Contents Note: 7 folders
Box 3, Folder 29 Gothic Touch, The
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder 30 Gremlin
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder 31 Hell Creek (Adrian Becker)
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 3, Folder 32 Horror from the Mound
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 3, Folder 33 In a Lonely Place
Contents Note: 7 folders
Box 3, Folder 34 In the Middle of a Snow Dream
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 3, Folder 35 In the Pines
Contents Note: 5 folders
Box 3, Folder 36 In the Wake of the Night
Contents Note: 6 folders
Box 3, Folder 37 Into Whose Hands
Contents Note: 5 folders
Box 3, Folder 38 I've Come to Talk with You Again
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 3, Folder 40 Killer (with David A. Drake)
Contents Note: 1 folders
Box 3, Folder 41 Killer (with David A. Drake)
Contents Note: 6 folders
Box 3, Folder 42 Kind Men Like, The
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder 43 Lacunae
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder 44 Last Wolf, The (science fantasy)
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 3, Folder 45 Legion from the Shadows
Contents Note: 7 folders
Box 4, Folder 45 Legion from the Shadows
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 46 Like Shadows Into the Night
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 4, Folder 47 Little Lessons in Gardening
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 4, Folder 48 Locked Away
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 49 Lost Exits
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 50 Lost Raiders of the Extra Waves
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 51 Lynortis Reprise
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 52 Midnight Sun
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 53 Mirage
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 54 Misericorde
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 4, Folder 55 More Sinned Against
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 56 Neither Brute nor Human
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 57 Undertow
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 4, Folder 58 Nightmare Near (Anthology)
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 4, Folder 59 Old Loves
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 60 One Paris Night (Adrian Becker)
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 61 Other One, The
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 4, Folder 62 Passages
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 4, Folder 63 Picture of Jonathan Collins, The
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 64 Plan 10 from Inner Space
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 65 Prince of the Punks
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 4, Folder 66 Queen of Night
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 67 Queen of the Night
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 4, Folder 68 Ravens Eyrie
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 4, Folder 69 Reflections for the Winter of My Soul
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 5, Folder 70 River of Night's Dreaming
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 5, Folder 71 Road of Kings, The (Conan pastiche)
Contents Note: 9 folders
Box 5, Folder 72 Satan's Gun (Adrian Becker)
Contents Note: 11 folders
Box 5, Folder 73 Shrapnel
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 5, Folder 74 Sign of the Salamander, The (John Chance)
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 5, Folder 75 Silted In
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 5, Folder 76 Sintern
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 5, Folder 77 Slug, The
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 5, Folder 78 Sticks
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 5, Folder 79 Tell Me Dark
Contents Note: 15 folders
Box 5, Folder 80 Treasure of Lynortis
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 6, Folder 81 Twist
Contents Note: 6 folders
Box 6, Folder 82 Two Suns Setting
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 6, Folder 83 .220 Swift
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 6, Folder 84 Undertow
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 6, Folder 85 Untitled
Contents Note: 1 folders
Box 6, Folder 86 Untitled
Contents Note: 1 folders
Box 6, Folder 87 Sing a Last Song of Valdese
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 6, Folder 88 Valley of the Star
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 6, Folder 89 Valley So Low (Manly Wade Wellman collection)
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 6, Folder 90 Walk on the Wild Side
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 6, Folder 91 Where the Summer Ends
Contents Note: 5 folders
Box 6, Folder 92 Who'll Stop the Rain?
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 6, Folder 93 Why Not You and I?
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 6, Folder 94 Year's Best Horror Stories, Series VIII to XXII: permission forms
Contents Note: 17 folders (a (pt.i-xv)-b)
Box 7, Folder 94 Year's Best Horror Stories, Series VIII to XXII: paperback editions
Contents Note: 15 folders (c-q)
Box 7, Folder 94 Year's Best Horror Stories, Series VIII to XXII: deluxe editions of Horror Stories
Contents Note: 2 folders (r-s)

Series 2. Nonfiction, 1973-1994
1.0 box

Container Description Date
Box 8, Folder 96 Address to the Lankhmar Literary Guild
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 98 Appearing Soon at a Newstand Near You
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 145 Arnold Fenner (newsletter)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 100 Breaking In
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 101 British Fantasy Convention notes
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 102 Comics
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 103 Commonplace books
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 152 Correspondence
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 153 Correspondence
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 104 Dark Forces and Frights
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 142 Darkness Shattered
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 122 Dave McFerran biographical sketch
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 105 Decline But Not Yet the Fall
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 118 Desk journal
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 106 Doc Wagner magazine
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 108 Etchison Question
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 109 Even a Man Who Is Pure in Heart
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 113 H. Rider Haggard biographical sketch
Box 8, Folder 107 Harlan Ellison biographical sketch
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 114 Harvesting Horror
Contents Note: 2 folders
Box 8, Folder 115 Heroic Fantasy
Box 8, Folder 147 Hodder & Stoughton (royalty statements)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 119 Hour of the Dragon, by Robert E. Howard, edited by Karl Edward Wagner
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 143 Interview: Karl Edward Wagner
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 99 Introduction to The Best of Ghosts & Scholars
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 146 John Gordon (photocopy)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 144 Jonathan Bacon (newsletter)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 120 Kane
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 121 Kane
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 123 Magazine indexes (horror, mystery, science fiction)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 134 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 139 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 151 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 124 Masters of Nightmare, Afterward to
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 148 Misappropriation of Kane character (correspondence)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 126 Mrs. Peel, You're Needed
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 127 Names and places
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 128 New Views of Necrophilia
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 110 On Fantasy essay
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 111 On Fantasy essay
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 116 On Fantasy essay
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 117 On Fantasy essay
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 125 On Fantasy essay
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 129 Out and About in October Country
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 149 Paperback Library (correspondence)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 130 Primal Scream: horror stories about psychiatrists (bibliography)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 131 Reality: Assassin of Myth
Contents Note: 4 folders
Box 8, Folder 132 Red Dreams, Introduction to
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 112 Selected Checklist of David Drake, A
Contents Note: 5 folders
Box 8, Folder 133 Sodarr of Titan
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 97 Some Informal Notes on David Drake
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 135 Suffer, Little Children
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 136 Untitled
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 137 Want List
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 150 Warner Books (royalty statements)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 138 Wasn't Bran Mak Morn a Cereal?
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 8, Folder 140 Who Fears the Devil?
Contents Note: 3 folders
Box 8, Folder 141 Yet More Swell Stuff
Contents Note: 1 folder

Series 3. Writings by others, 1969-1994
1.0 box

Container Description Date
Box 9, Folder 159 Robert Bloch
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 164 Robert Bloch
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 154 Poppy Z. Brite
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 165 John Constantine
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 171 Mark Durand
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 170 George MacDonald Fraser
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 156 Robert E. Howard
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 169 H.P. Lovecraft
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 160 Stanley Mann
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 161 Andrew Offutt
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 157 William Relling Jr.: Brujo (novel manuscript)
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 177 Barbara Wagner
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 172 Karl Edward Wagner medical files
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 174 Karl Edward Wagner medical files
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 155 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 163 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 166 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 168 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 173 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 175 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 176 Manly Wade Wellman
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 158 Conventions
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 162 Conventions
Contents Note: 1 folder
Box 9, Folder 178-224 Submissions to the Year's Best Horror Stories anthology, arranged alphabetically by author
Contents Note: 47 folders

 1994
Box 9, Folder 225 Newspaper clippings
Contents Note: 1 folder