Phantasmagoria Special Edition #5 - Karl Edward Wagner

[andydecker]

Trevor Kennedy (ed.) - Phantasmagoria Special Edition #5 - Karl Edward Wagner (Phantasmagoria Magazine, 2021 (my guess, not specified in PoD copy), 278 pages)

Les Edwards

Content:
Stephen Jones - Introduction: Into the Dark
Trevor Kennedy – Dedicated to Karl: Editorial Notes
Stephen Jones - Karl Edward Wagner: Selected Bibliography
Stephen Jones - The Darkness Weaver (Interview with KEW,1978)
Kane: A Les Edwards Portfolio
Brian M. McKnight; Brandon D. Lunsford; Trevor Kennedy - Memories of Karl: Interview with John F. Mayer
Kane: A John F. Mayer Portfolio
S. T. Joshi - Karl Edward Wagner, "Sticks" and Lovecraft
Dave Carson – Dave Carson's Thrilling Wagner Tales
"Sticks": A Dave Carson Portfolio
Trevor Kennedy - Whispers about Karl: Interview with Stuart David Schiff
Stephen Jones - KEW story introductions/feature: Karl Edward Wagner's Murder Ballads
Karl Edward Wagner – Sing a Last Song of Valdese (Fiction)
                                - In the Pines (Fiction)
Steve Dilks – Shades & Reflections: An Appreciation of Karl Edward Wagner's Kane
Karl Edward Wagner – "Mourning of the Following Day" (Poem)
David A. Sutton – The Last Wolf: Karl Edward Wagner (Feature)
John Gilbert – Mentioned in Dispatches : Interview with David Drake
The Year's Best Horror Stories:
Featuring original story introductions by KEW
"The Depths" by Ramsey Campbell (Fiction)
"Bunny Didn't Tell Us" by David J. Schow (Fiction)
"The Godmother" by Tina Rath (Fiction)
"Root Cellar" by Nancy Killpatrick (Fiction)
"Week Woman" by Kim Newman (Fiction)
The Year's Best Horror Stories: A Les Edwards Portfolio
Adrian Cole - Karl Mac Morn (Feature)
Trevor Kennedy – Filming the Last Wolf: Interview with Brian M. Knight and Brandon D. Lunsford
Justin Marriott – The Mark of Kane (Feature)
Phantasmagoria Reviews: Karl Edward Wagner
Stephen Jones – "Talking with Karl" (Fiction)
Acknowledgements

This is Print on Demand, so no colour pages inside.

A very, very well done magazine/tradepaperback. Fans may know one or two feature articles, still they are a lot of gems, like the cover of the never written Bran Mac Morn II by Zebra. The reprints of the stories were unexpected, but a lot of them are unavaiable or at least hard to get  today, so all is good.

Highly recommended.

[dem bones]

Thanks for the TOC, Andreas. I like the Phantasmagoria Chetwynd-Hayes special a lot, but, artwork apart, found their MR James edition ... lacklustre. This looks much more like it! Pleased to see Justin Fanatic, Stephen Jones and David Sutton among the contributors.

[andydecker]

Mar 10, 2022 10:16:18 GMT dem bones said:

Thanks for the TOC, Andreas. I like the Phantasmagoria Chetwynd-Hayes special a lot, but, artwork apart, found their MR James edition ... lacklustre. This looks much more like it! Pleased to see Justin Fanatic, Stephen Jones and David Sutton among the contributors.

Me too. When I discovered Justin, it made me smile. Not easy these days.

[dem bones]

Mar 10, 2022 10:55:50 GMT andydecker said:

Mar 10, 2022 10:16:18 GMT dem bones said:

Thanks for the TOC, Andreas. I like the Phantasmagoria Chetwynd-Hayes special a lot, but, artwork apart, found their MR James edition ... lacklustre. This looks much more like it! Pleased to see Justin Fanatic, Stephen Jones and David Sutton among the contributors.

Me too. When I discovered Justin, it made me smile. Not easy these days.

Think it may be a reprint of an article first appeared in Paperback Fanatic #15, which, if correct, is no bad thing. So many Fanatic articles deserve a wider audience.