Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner

The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (1979): Teenage K.Richard Matheson's Other Classics: 3 Hits from Hell.Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti (1985).Blood of the Impaler by Jeffrey Sackett (1989): Le.Book of the Dead, edited by John Skipp & Craig Spe.The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (195.August Derleth's Cthulhu Mythos stories: (Dead) Dr.It took me a couple years to track down affordable used copies of these old paperbacks they're well-worn but comfortably well-loved and hold a position of some renown in my collection. The latter tale, about the horrifying fate of a Tom Selleck-style action TV star, was my first introduction to Wagner when I read it in the rollicking splatterpunky collection Silver Scream (1988), edited by David J. Potter) display a knowledge of the world of writers and horror fandom and some attendant dangers of real-life love (hence the kissing skulls). Stories like 'Old Loves,' 'The Last Wolf,' 'Neither Brute Nor Human,' and 'More Sinned Against' from Why Not You and I? (Sept 1987, Tor, cover art by J.K. Readers may not know Wagner trained as a psychiatrist but left the field to pursue writing, which lends a trenchant psychological insight to his works. To the last part and you realize you’ve been reading a horror story all Interesting pieces from an old drunk’s junkyard collection, his yard entangled by impenetrable kudzu. Student who’s trying to fix up his shitty apartment by buying 'Where the Summer Ends' at first seems like the tale of a broke college Showing male friendship and bonding, making me think he’s drawing from Have an honest, albeit sometimes bitter quality to them. What I like most about Wagner’s style is that he writes like a person who's lived a A pulp horror artist (based on Lee Brown Coyne) comes across a strange collection of bundled lattices of sticks in the lonely woods of upstate New York. The dancing phantom woman in the skull's eye on In a Lonely Place(Mar 1983, Warner, cover art by Barclay Shaw) appears in 'In the Pines.' Wagner's most well-known horror tale, 'Sticks,' originally published in 1974 in Whispers magazine, is a stunning predecessor to The Blair Witch Project (1999), and is also an effective, doom-heavy tale of Lovecraftian menace. These two collections from the 1980s are essential reads for the serious horror-fiction fan. He died in 1994 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, apparently after years of wild drugs and drinking, but his stories display a real sensitivity and maturity. Karl Edward Wagner was primarily known as an editor of Year's Best Horror Stories for years, as well as for his Conan-esque character Kane.

Skulls are muy importante when it comes to horror paperback covers, perhaps the most essential icon of all.

Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner