

His disillusionment with the medical profession can be detected in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into Whose Hands". He is possibly best known for his creation of a series of stories featuring the character Kane, the Mystic Swordsman. His Carcosa publishing company issued four volumes of the best stories by some of the major authors of the so-called Golden Age pulp magazines.

Howard's Conan the Barbarian fiction restored to its original form as written, and edited the long-running and genre-defining The Year's Best Horror Stories series for DAW Books. As an editor, he created a three-volume set of Robert E. He wrote numerous dark fantasy and horror stories. Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 – 14 October 1994) was an 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.
