...this: http://www.nightshadebooks.com/kane.html
Paul
Hi Paul,
Nice! Here's the breakdown of the Kane stories, in chronological order of the adventures (not of the writing; I have to check on that).
1) Night Winds - a collection of short stories
2) Bloodstone - a novel
3) Dark Crusade - a novel
4) Death God's Shadow - a collection of three long short stories, or perhaps short novellas
5) Darkness Weaves - a novel
Looks like this collection puts the three novels together.
Also, Wagner wrote a few more stories much later after these were all published in book form, published mainly in small fanzine-horror; none of those impressed or interested me (although usually I like small fanzine-horror). I more-or-less think of them like I do the twenty-years-later Fafhrd and Mouser stories: pastiche written by the original author.
Best,
Ron
Hey Ron,
Thanks for that breakdown. I researched the book a bit before deciding to purchase, not wanting text that had been editorially mishandled, and was unable to discover where the short stories fit into the Kane chronology. The only thing I turned up was a mention that the included version of
Darkness Weaves was a "corrected text." There was no explanation, but since that phrase typically means author corrections never incorporated into the first edition, I went ahead and ordered the book. I did come across this bit at the
Coming Attractions pulp news site though:
"It looks like there will be a companion volume to Karl Edward Wagner's Gods in Darkness featuring Kane. The second volume will contain all of the Kane short fiction, and will also have a Ken Kelly jacket."
So it's good to know the chronology of the stories. What do you know about Ken Kelly?
Paul