Exorcisms and Ecstasies

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name = Exorcisms and Ecstasies
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Karl Edward Wagner
illustrator = Jeffrey K. Potter
cover_artist = Jeffrey K. Potter
country = United States
language = English
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genre = fantasy, horror short stories
publisher = Fedogan & Bremer
release_date = 1997
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xviii, 561 pp
isbn = ISBN 1-878252-28-3
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"Exorcisms and Ecstasies" is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Karl Edward Wagner. The collection also includes a number of memoirs and articles about Wagner and is edited by Stephen Jones. It was released in 1997 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 2,100 copies, of which 100 included Wagner's signature taken from a canceled check or contract. The limited edition was also signed by the artist, editor and other contributors to the collection. Many of the stories originally appeared in a number of different anthologies and collections or in the magazines "Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction", "Kadath", "Weird Tales", "The Centralite", "Midnight Sun", "Fantasy Crossroads" and "Gauntlet".

Contents

* "Introduction: Talking with Karl", by Stephen Jones
* "Midnight Sun"
* Exorcisms and Ecstasies
** "Various Encounters with Karl" by Peter Straub
** "Did They Get You to Trade?"
** "The Kind Men Like"
** "Cedar Lane"
** "The Slug"
** "Final Cut"
** "Locked Away"
** "Endless Night"
** "A Walk on the Wild Side"
** "Passages"
** "Little Lessons in Gardening"
** "I’ve Come to Talk with You Again"
** "An Awareness of Angels"
** "But You’ll Never Follow Me"
** "Plan 10 from Inner Space"
** "Prince of the Punks"
** "The Picture of Jonathan Collins"
** "Gremlin"
** "Brushed Away"
** "In the Middle of a Snow Dream"
** "The Big Dutchman", by Frances Wellman
* Silver Dagger: Kane"
** "All Good Friends, by David J. Schow
** "In the Wake of the Night"
** "The Treasure of Lynortis"
** "The Gothic Touch"
** "At First Just Ghostly"
** "Deep in the Depths of the Acme Warehouse"
** "Friends Die", by Ramsey Campbell
* Satan’s Gun: Adrian Becker
** "Doc Wagner", by Jenny Campbell
** "Satan’s Gun"
** "Hell Creek"
** "One Paris Night"
** "The Truth Insofar as I Know It, by David Drake
* Tell Me, Dark: Uncollected Stories
** "Brother Karl: Stories First and Last, by James R. Wagner
** "The Education of Gergy-doo-doo"
** "Stardust"
** "Killer"
** "The Coming of Ghor"
** "A Fair Cop"
** "Karl Edward Wagner: Sassenach", by Brian Lumley
** "Karl Edward Wagner: A Working Bibliography of English Language First Editions", by Scott F. Wyatt & Stephen Jones
** "Afterword: Karl Edward Wagner—A Personal Farewell", by C. Bruce Hunter
** "Death Angel’s Shadow"

References

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