Kramer, Edward E
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor, Fan.
(1961- ) US editor, author and fan, in the last capacity a co-founder and former part owner of the now very large Convention Dragon Con (formerly styled Dragon*Con) held since 1987 in Atlanta, Georgia. He has edited, usually in collaboration, a number of genre Anthologies beginning with Confederacy of the Dead (anth 1993) with Richard Gilliam and Martin H Greenberg; he began to publish stories of genre interest with "The Power In Penance" in his own Grails: Visitations of the Night (anth 1994) edited with Richard Gilliam and Martin H Greenberg. The solo-edited Dark Destiny sequence opening with Dark Destiny (1994) inhabits a Shared World where Vampires, Werewolves and other Supernatural Creatures have long manipulated Earth's history from behind the scenes. Kramer's best known edited work is probably The Sandman: Book of Dreams (anth 1996) as Ed Kramer, with Neil Gaiman, assembling original stories set in the universe of Gaiman's Sandman; contributors include Gene Wolfe. The Libertarian SF anthology Free Space (anth 1997) with Brad Linaweaver won a special Prometheus Award in 1998.
A shadow was cast over Kramer's editorial career and reputation in Fandom by his arrest in 2000 on charges of child molestation, to three of which he pleaded guilty in 2013; legal complications still continue. [DRL]
Edward Eliot Kramer
born New York: 20 March 1961
works as editor
series
Grail
- Grails: Quests, Visitations, and Other Occurrences (Atlanta, Georgia: Unnameable Press, 1992) with Richard Gilliam and Martin H Greenberg [anth: Grail: hb/Robert Gould]
- Grails: Quests of the Dawn (New York: Roc Books, 1994) with Richard Gilliam and Martin H Greenberg [anth: Grail: pb/Thomas Canty]
- Grails: Visitations of the Night (New York: Roc Books, 1994) with Richard Gilliam and Martin H Greenberg [anth: Grail: pb/Thomas Canty]
Dark Destiny
- Dark Destiny (Stone Mountain, Georgia: White Wolf Publishing, 1994) [anth: Dark Destiny: hb/John Cobb]
- Dark Destiny: Proprietors of Fate (Stone Mountain, Georgia: White Wolf Publishing, 1995) [anth: Dark Destiny: hb/Mike Mignola]
- Dark Destiny III: Children of Dracula (Stone Mountain, Georgia: White Wolf Publishing, 1996) [anth: Dark Destiny: hb/Bernie Wrightson]
Phobias
- Phobias: Stories of Your Deepest Fears (New York: Pocket Books, 1994) with Richard Gilliam, Martin H Greenberg and Wendy Webb [anth: Phobias: pb/Kirk Reinert]
- More Phobias: Stories of Unparalleled Paranoia! (New York: Pocket Books, 1995) with Richard Gilliam, Martin H Greenberg and Wendy Webb [anth: Phobias: pb/Nicholas Blair]
individual titles as editor
- Confederacy of the Dead (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1993) with Richard Gilliam and Martin H Greenberg [anth: pb/]
- Michael Moorcock's Elric: Tales of the White Wolf (Stone Mountain, Georgia: White Wolf, 1994) with Richard Gilliam [anth: Elric of Melniboné: hb/Brom]
- Dante's Disciples (Stone Mountain, Georgia: White Wolf Publishing/Borealis, 1995) with Peter Crowther [anth: pb/Michael Scott Cohen]
- Dark Love (New York: Roc Books, 1995) with Nancy A Collins and Martin H Greenberg [anth: hb/Mel Odom]
- Excalibur (New York: Warner Books, 1995) with Richard Gilliam and Martin H Greenberg [anth: pb/Paul Youll]
- Tombs (Stone Mountain, Georgia: White Wolf Publishing, 1995) with Peter Crowther [anth: hb/Michelle Prahler]
- Michael Moorcock's Pawn of Chaos: Tales of the Eternal Champion (Stone Mountain, Georgia: White Wolf, 1996) [anth: Eternal Champion: hb/Chris Moeller]
- The Sandman: Book of Dreams (New York: HarperPrism, 1996) as Ed Kramer, with Neil Gaiman [anth: stories set in the Sandman universe: hb/Dave McKean]
- Free Space (New York: Tor, 1997) with Brad Linaweaver [anth: hb/John Berkey]
- The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1998) with J O'Barr [anth: hb/J O'Barr]
- Forbidden Acts (New York: Avon Books, 1999) with Nancy A Collins and Martin H Greenberg [anth: pb/Robert Scudellari]
- Strange Attraction (Centreville, Virginia: Bereshith Publishing/ShadowLands Press, 2000) [anth: hb/Lisa Snellings]
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