BLACK PROMETHEUS:  A CRITICAL STUDY OF KARL EDWARD WAGNER

EDITED BY BENJAMIN SZUMSKYJ

Since the loss of Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994), there has been little literary criticism dedicated to the genius of his imagination.  No longer.  Wagner's works deserve critical recognition and should be applauded for their diversity, originality and sheer emotional terror.

Editor Benjamin Szumskyj has commissioned the finest scholars to study Wagner's body of horror:  "'Being Utterly Lost': The Essential Modern Horror of Karl Edward Wagner" by John Howard, "Gunslinger from Prussia: The Adrian Becker Stories of Karl E. Wagner" by James Reasoner, "Karl Edward Wagner and the Haunted Hills (and Kudzu)" by Darrell Schweitzer, "Three by Thirteen:  The Karl Edward Wagner Lists" by N. G. Christakos, and "Postmodern Pulp:  Karl Edward Wagner's 'Sign of the Salamander'" by Dr. Gary Hoppenstand.  Including a rare article by Wagner himself and introduced by long-time friend of Wagner, John F. Mayer.  Black Prometheus: A Critical Study of Karl Edward Wagner is a landmark effort.  The Karl Edward Wagner website may be accessed by clicking here.

75 pages (2007) $15.00.