Karl Edward Wagner papers, ca. 1970-1994.

Wagner, Karl Edward

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American psychiatrist who became 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 (...

Cave, Hugh B. (Hugh Barnett), 1910-2004

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Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936

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Bloch, Robert, 1917-1994

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Robert Bloch was best known as the author of "Psycho." He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1917. He attended schools in Maywood, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as a free lance writer from 1934-1942. He then spent 11 years as a copywriter for a Milwaukee advertising agency before returning to freelance writing in 1953. He wrote primarily fantasy and suspense fiction. Bloch's most famous book was "Psycho," but he wrote other books including "Straitjacket," "The Psychopath," "Out of t...

Brite, Poppy Z.

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Wellman, Manly Wade, 1903-1986

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Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was an author best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains. He was born in Angola, where his father was a physician at a British medical outpost. He later moved to the United States and was educated at Wichita Municipal University (now Wichita State University) in Kansas and Columbia Univeristy. Wellman served as lieutenant in World War II, after which he moved to Pine Bluff, N.C. He relocated to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1951 and rece...

Carcosa (Firm)

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Founded by Karl Edward Wagner and David Drake in 1972. Four books were issued under the Carcosa imprint: Worse things waiting, by Manly Wade Wellman, ill. by Lee Brown Coye (1973); Far lands, other days, by E. Hoffmann Price, ill. by George Evans (1975); Murgunstrumm and others, by Hugh B. Cave, ill. by Lee Brown Coye (1977); and Lonely vigils, by Manly Wade Wellman, ill. by George Evans (1981). Galleys were printed for a fifth book, Death stalks the night, by Hugh B. Cave, which was eventually ...