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In 1927, H.P. Lovecraft wrote about Clark Ashton Smith: "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Mr. Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer dead or living. Who else has seen such gorgeous, luxuriant, and feverishly distorted visions of infinite spheres and multiple dimensions and lived to tell the tale?" If you relish horror or dark fantasy, and you have yet to discover Klarkash-Ton, you have a real treat in store. This beautifully produced Arkham House collection is a bejeweled corridor into the dark worlds of vampire-cursed Averoigne, Zothique of the dying sun, primordial Hyperborea (which, with its black, amorphous god Tsathoggua, is close in spirit to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos), and others. Smith is a consummate stylist whose evocations of lush exoticism and languid evil led critic Brian Stableford to call him "the poet of American Decadence," and yet his tales are also humorous--in a wry, macabre way. A Rendezvous in Averoigne collects 30 tales, with illustrations by J.K. Potter and an introduction by Ray Bradbury.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (A Rendezvous in Averoigne) - essay by Ray Bradbury
• The Holiness of Azédarac - (1933)
• The Colossus of Ylourgne - (1934)
• The End of the Story - (1930)
• A Rendezvous in Averoigne - (1931)
• The Last Incantation - (1930)
• The Death of Malygris - (1934)
• A Voyage to Sfanomoë - (1931)
• The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan - (1932)
• The Seven Geases - (1934)
• The Tale of Satampra Zeiros - (1931)
• The Coming of the White Worm - (1941)
• The City of the Singing Flame - (1931)
• The Dweller in the Gulf - (1960)
• The Chain of Aforgomon - (1935)
• Genius Loci - (1933)
• The Maze of Maal Dweb - (1938)
• The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis - (1932)
• The Uncharted Isle - (1930)
• The Planet of the Dead - (1932)
• Master of the Asteroid - (1932)
• The Empire of the Necromancers - (1932)
• The Charnel God - (1934)
• Xeethra - (1934)
• The Dark Eidolon - (1935)
• The Death of Ilalotha - (1937)
• The Last Hieroglyph - (1935)
• Necromancy in Naat - (1936)
• The Garden of Adompha - (1938)
• The Isle of the Torturers - (1933)
• Morthylla - (1953)

Table of Contents:

• Red World of Polaris: The Adventures of Captain Volmar - interior artwork by Jason Van Hollander
• 1 - The Magellan of the Constellations - essay by Ronald S. Hilger and Scott Connors
• 11 - Marooned in Andromeda - [Captain Volmar - 1] - (1930) - novelette
• 39 - A Captivity in Serpens - [Captain Volmar - 2] - (1931) - novelette
• 79 - The Red World of Polaris - [Captain Volmar] - novelette
• 109 - The Ocean-World of Alioth - [Captain Volmar] - (1984) - short story
• 113 - Captain Volmar and Crew: An Afterword - essay by Donald Sidney-Fryer

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1995) - essay by Will Murray
• The Empire of the Necromancers - (1932) - short story
• The Isle of the Torturers - (1933) - short story
• The Charnel God - (1934) - novelette
• The Dark Eidolon - (1935) - novelette
• The Voyage of King Euvoran - (1933) - novelette
• The Weaver in the Vault - (1934) - short story
• The Tomb-Spawn - (1934) - short story
• The Witchcraft of Ulua - (1934) - short story
• Xeethra - (1934) - novelette
• In the Book of Vergama - (1935) - short story by The Last Hieroglyph
• The Last Hieroglyph - (1935) - short story
• Shapes of Adamant - (1984) - short story
• Necromancy in Naat - (1936) - novelette
• The Black Abbot of Puthuum - (1936) - novelette
• The Death of Ilalotha - (1937) - short story
• The Garden of Adompha - (1938) - short story
• Zothique - (1951) - poem
• The Master of the Crabs - (1948) - short story
• Morthylla - (1953) - short story
• Mandor's Enemy - (1984) - short story
• The Dead Will Cuckold You - (1963) - short fiction
• Postscript - (1995) - essay by Will Murray

Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him “unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the worthy term sui generis. Clark Ashton Smith—autodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre sculptor, and unmatched storyteller—simply wrote like no one else, before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smith’s visionary brand of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention, terror, and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder.

Contents:

• ix - Introduction (The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies) - (2014) - essay by S. T. Joshi
• 3 - The Tale of Satampra Zeiros - [Satampra Zeiros] - (1931) - short story
• 16 - The Last Incantation - [Malygris] - (1930) - short story
• 21 - The Devotee of Evil - (1933) - short story
• 34 - The Uncharted Isle - (1930) - short story
• 45 - The Face by the River - (2004) - short story
• 52 - The City of the Singing Flame - (1940) - novelette
• 70 - The Holiness of Azédarac - [Averoigne] - (1933) - novelette
• 91 - The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1932) - novelette
• 112 - Ubbo-Sathla - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - short story
• 120 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - short story
• 133 - The Maze of the Enchanter - [Maal Dweb] - (1933) - short story (variant of The Maze of Maal Dweb)
• 149 - Genius Loci - (1933) - short story
• 167 - The Dark Eidolon - [Zothique] - (1935) - novelette
• 195 - The Weaver in the Vault - [Zothique] - (1934) - short story
• 208 - Xeethra - [Zothique] - (1934) - novelette
• 229 - The Treader of the Dust - (1935) - short story
• 238 - Mother of Toads - [Averoigne] - (1938) - short story
• 247 - Phoenix - (1954) - short story
• 261 - The Image of Bronze and the Image of Iron - (1965) - poem
• 262 - The Memnons of the Night - (1917) - poem
• 263 - The Demon, the Angel, and Beauty - (1922) - poem
• 264 - The Corpse and the Skeleton - (1965) - poem
• 266 - A Dream of Lethe - (1922) - poem
• 268 - Ennui - (1918) - poem
• 270 - The Litany of the Seven Kisses - (1922) - poem
• 271 - In Cocaigne - (1922) - poem
• 272 - The Flower-Devil - (1922) - poem
• 273 - The Shadows - (1922) - poem
• 274 - The Passing of Aphrodite - [Prose Pastels - 5] - (1934) - poem
• 276 - To the Daemon - [Prose Pastels - 6] - (1943) - poem
• 277 - The Abomination of Desolation - (1938) - poem
• 278 - The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony - [Prose Pastels - 2] - (1934) - poem
• 279 - The Touch-Stone - (1988) - poem (variant of The Touchstone 1965)
• 280 - The Muse of Hyperborea - [Prose Pastels - 3] - (1934) - poem
• 283 - The Last Night - (1912) - poem
• 283 - Ode to the Abyss - (1912) - poem
• 285 - A Dream of Beauty - (1911) - poem
• 286 - The Star-Treader - (1912) - poem
• 290 - Retrospect and Forecast - (1912) - poem
• 290 - Nero - (1912) - poem
• 293 - To the Daemon Sublimity - (1961) - poem (variant of To the Daemon of Sublimity)
• 293 - Averted Malefice - (1912) - poem
• 294 - The Eldritch Dark - (1912) - poem
• 294 - Shadow of Nightmare - (1912) - poem
• 295 - Satan Unrepentant - (1918) - poem
• 297 - The Ghoul - poem
• 298 - Desire of Vastness - (1922) - poem
• 298 - The Medusa of Despair - (1913) - poem
• 299 - The Refuge of Beauty - (1918) - poem
• 299 - The Harlot of the World - (1915) - poem
• 300 - Memnon at Midnight - (1918) - poem
• 300 - Love Malevolent - (1922) - poem
• 301 - The Crucifixion of Eros - (1918) - poem
• 302 - The Tears of Lilith - (1922) - poem
• 302 - Requiescat in Pace - (1920) - poem
• 303 - The Motes - (1922) - poem
• 304 - The Hashish-Eater: or, The Apocalypse of Evil - (1922) - poem
• 319 - A Psalm to the Best Beloved - (1922) - poem
• 320 - The Witch with Eyes of Amber - (1923) - poem
• 320 - We Shall Meet - (1923) - poem
• 322 - On Re-Reading Baudelaire - (1971) - poem (variant of On Reading Baudelaire 1923)
• 322 - To George Sterling: A Validation - poem
• 324 - Anterior Life - poem
• 325 - Hymn to Beauty - poem
• 326 - The Remorse of the Dead - poem
• 326 - Exorcism - (1971) - poem
• 327 - Nyctalops - (1929) - poem
• 328 - Outlanders - (1937) - poem
• 329 - Song of the Necromancer - (1937) - poem
• 330 - To Howard Philips Lovecraft - poem
• 331 - Madrigal of Memory - (1942) - poem
• 332 - The Old Wheel-Whell - poem
• 333 - The Hill of Dionysus - (1961) - poem
• 334 - If Winter Remain - (1971) - poem
• 335 - Amithaine - (1951) - poem
• 336 - Cycles - (1963) - poem
• 339 - Explanatory Notes (The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies) - essay by S. T. Joshi

From the vampire-haunted alleyways of mediaeval Averoigne to the shining spires of dying Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith weaves his literary sorcery, transporting us to forgotten realms of necromancies and nightmares, lost worlds and other dimensions. In the enchanted regions of Hyperborea, Atlantis and Xiccarph, encounter malefic magic and demonic deeds beneath the last rays of a fading sun...

For the first time ever, this volume encompasses Clark Ashton Smith's entire career as a writer. Smith virtually stopped writing stories in 1937, for reasons that have never been satisfactorily explained, but he left behind a unique legacy of fantasy fiction which is as imaginative and decadent today as when it was first published in the pulp magazines more than half a century ago.

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• On Fantasy (1934), essay
• Song of the Necromancer (1937), poem
• The Abominations of Yondo (1926), short story
• The Ninth Skeleton (1928), short story
• The Last Incantation, [Malygris] (1930), short story
• A Rendezvous in Averoigne, [Averoigne] (1931), short story
• The Return of the Sorcerer, [Cthulhu Mythos] (1931), short story
• The Tale of Satampra Zeiros, [Satampra Zeiros] (1931), short story
• The Door to Saturn, [Hyperborea] (1932), short story
• The Gorgon (1932), short story
• The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan, [Hyperborea] (1932), short story
• The Nameless Offspring (1932), novelette
• The Empire of the Necromancers, [Zothique] (1932), short story
• The Hunters from Beyond (1932), short story
• The Isle of the Torturers, [Zothique] (1933), short story
• The Beast of Averoigne, [Averoigne] (1933), short story
• Genius Loci (1933), short story
• Ubbo-Sathla, [Hyperborea] (1933), short story
• The Kiss of Zoraida (1933), short story
• The Seed from the Sepulcher (1933), short story
• The Weaver in the Vault, [Zothique] (1934), short story
• The Ghoul (1934), short story
• The Charnel God, [Zothique] (1934), novelette
• The Death of Malygris, [Malygris] (1934), short story
• The Tomb-Spawn, [Zothique] (1934), short story
• The Seven Geases, [Hyperborea] (1934), novelette
• Xeethra, [Zothique] (1934), novelette
• The Dark Eidolon, [Zothique] (1935), novelette
• The Flower-Women, [Maal Dweb] (1935), short story
• The Treader of the Dust (1935), short story
• The Black Abbot of Puthuum, [Zothique] (1936), novelette
• Necromancy in Naat, [Zothique] (1936), novelette
• The Death of Ilalotha, [Zothique] (1937), short story
• The Garden of Adompha, [Zothique] (1938), short story
• Mother of Toads, [Averoigne] (1938), short story
• The Double Shadow, [Poseidonis] (1933), short story
• The Coming of the White Worm, [Hyperborea] (1941), short story
• The Root of Ampoi (1949), short story
• Morthylla, [Zothique] (1953), short story
• An Offering to the Moon (1953), short story
• The Theft of Thirty-nine Girdles, [Satampra Zeiros] (1958), short story
• Symposium of the Gorgon (1958), short story
• Told in the Desert (1964), short story
• Prince Alcouz and the Magician(1977), short story
• A Good Embalmer (1989), short story
• The Mortuary (1971), poem
• Afterword: The Lost Worlds of Klarkash-Ton,essay by Stephen Jones

The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith gathers together the adventure, juvenile and other non-fantastic fiction of Smith. While he is known best for his fantastic work, these adventure and mainstream stories shed light on the development of Smith's writing and his constantly evolving style. The Miscellaneous Writings is a perfect companion to the five volume Collected Fantasies set. As with that set, editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have prepared this volume by compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts.

It Is That Spawn Which the Hidden Dweller in the Vaults Has Begotten Upon Mortality.

This short story is included in the collections:

• A Vintage From Atlantis: Volume Three of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith (2007), Clark Ashton Smith
• The Klarkash-Ton Cycle: Clark Ashton Smith's Cthulhu Mythos Fiction (2008), Clark Ashton Smith
• The Emperor of Dreams (2002), Clark Ashton Smith

It first appeared in the June 1932 issue of Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror available free on Internet Archives.

A bizarre and fantastic tale, about the procession of nine grisly skeletons that horrified the dreamy lover.

This short story is included in the collections:

• The End of the Story (2006) , Clark Ashton Smith
• The Emperor of Dreams (2002), Clark Ashton Smith

It first appeared in the September, 1929 Issue of Weird Tales, available free on Internet Archives.

Selected carefully by well-respected editor Robert Weinberg and with an introduction by award-winning author Gene Wolfe, The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith offers both readers and scholars a definitive collection of short fiction and short novels, by an overlooked master of fantasy, horror and science-fiction.

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• Introduction The Return of The Sorcerer) (2009), essay by Gene Wolfe
• The Return of The Sorcerer [Cthulhu Mythos] (1931), short story
• The City of Singing Flame [Singing Flame, 1] (1931), novelette
• Beyond The Singing Flame [Singing Flame, 2] (1931), novelette
• The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] (1932), novelette
• The Double Shadow [Poseidonis] (1933), short story
• The Monster of The Prophecy (1932), novelette
• The Hunters from Beyond (1932), short story
• The Isle of The Torturers [Zothique] (1933), short story
• A Night in Malnéant (1933), short story
• The Chain of Aforgomon (1935), short story
• The Dark Eidolon [Zothique] (1935), novelette
• The Seven Geases [Hyperborea] (1934), novelette
• The Holiness of Azédarac [Averoigne] (1933), novelette
• The Beast of Averoigne [Averoigne] (1933), short story
• The Empire of tThe Necromancers [Zothique] (1932), short story
• The Disinterment of Venus [Averoigne] (1934), short story
• The Devotee of Evil (1933), short story
• The Enchantress of Sylaire [Averoigne] (1941), short story

A strange tale about a lamia who dwelt beneath the ruins of the Castle of Fausses flammes.

This short story is included in the collections:

• A Rendezvous in Averoigne: The Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (1988), Clark Ashton Smith
• Out of Space and Time (1942), Clark Ashton Smith

It first appeared in the May, 1930 Issue of Weird Tales, available free on Internet Archives.

Clark Ashton Smith's influential Zothique sequence of stories, the majority of which were orignally published during the 1930s, collected in a signle volume. Number 16 in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, edited by Lin Carter.

Contents:

• About Zothique, and Clark Ashton Smith: When the World Grows Old - essay by Lin Carter
• Map of Zothique
• Zothique (1951 poem)
• Xeethra (1934)
• Necromancy in Naat (1936)
• The Empire of the Necromancers (1932)
• The Master of the Crabs (1948)
• The Death of Ilalotha (1937)
• The Weaver in the Vault (1934)
• The Witchcraft of Ulua (1934)
• The Charnel God (1934)
• The Dark Eidolon (1935)
• Morthylla (1953)
• The Black Abbot of Puthuum (1936)
• The Tomb-Spawn (1934)
• The Last Hieroglyph (1935)
• The Isle of the Torturers (1933)
• The Garden of Adompha (1938)
• The Voyage of King Euvoran (1933)
• Epilogue: The Sequence of the Zothique Tales - essay by Lin Carter

Contents:

• [viii] - Hyperborea (map) - interior artwork by Lin Carter
• ix - About Hyperborea and Clark Ashton Smith: Behind the North Wind - essay by Lin Carter
• 3 - The Muse of Hyperborea - [Prose Pastels - 3] - (1934) - poem
• 4 - The Seven Geases - [Hyperborea] - (1934) - novelette
• 30 - The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - short story
• 41 - The White Sybil - [Hyperborea] - (1934) - short story
• 53 - The Testament of Athammaus - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - short story
• 77 - The Coming of the White Worm - [Hyperborea] - (1941) - short story
• 94 - Ubbo-Sathla - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - short story
• 104 - The Door to Saturn - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - short story
• 128 - The Ice-Demon - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - short story
• 148 - The Tale of Satampra Zeiros - [Satampra Zeiros] - (1931) - short story
• 164 - The Theft of Thirty-nine Girdles - [Satampra Zeiros] - (1958) - short story
• 181 - The Abominations of Yondo - (1926) - short story
• 190 - The Desolation of Soom - poem (variant of The Abomination of Desolation 1938)
• 192 - The Passing of Aphrodite - [Prose Pastels - 5] - (1934) - poem
• 195 - The Memnons of the Night - (1917) - poem
• 197 - Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle - essay by Lin Carter

Contents:

• 3 - About Xiccarph and Clark Ashton Smith: Other Stars and Skies - essay by Lin Carter
• 9 - To the Daemon: an Invocation - [Prose Pastels - 6] - poem (variant of To the Daemon 1943)
• 15 - The Maze of Maal Dweb - [Maal Dweb] - (1933) - short story
• 37 - The Flower-Women - [Maal Dweb] - (1935) - short story
• 58 - Vulthoom - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1935) - novelette
• 94 - The Dweller in the Gulf - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1933) - novelette
• 121 - The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1932) - novelette
• 147 - The Doom of Antarion - short story (variant of The Planet of the Dead 1932)
• 168 - The Demon of the Flower - (1933) - short story
• 185 - The Monster of the Prophecy - (1932) - novelette
• 239 - Sadastor - (1930) - poem
• 244 - From the Crypts of Memory - (1917) - poem

Contents:

• 1 - About Poseidonis and Clark Ashton Smith: The Magic of Atlantis - essay by Lin Carter
• 9 - An Editor's Note (Poseidonis) - essay by Lin Carter
• 11 - The Muse of Atlantis - [Poseidonis] - poem (variant of From a Letter 1922)
• 12 - The Last Incantation - [Malygris] - (1930) - short story
• 18 - The Death of Malygris - [Malygris] - (1934) - short story
• 33 - Tolometh - (1958) - poem
• 35 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - short story
• 50 - A Voyage to Sfanomoë - [Poseidonis] - (1931) - short story
• 59 - A Vintage from Atlantis - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - short story
• 67 - Atlantis - [Poseidonis] - (1912) - poem
• 71 - Editor's Note [2] (Poseidonis) - essay by Lin Carter
• 73 - In Lemuria - (1921) - poem
• 75 - An Offering to the Moon - (1953) - short story
• 88 - The Uncharted Isle - (1930) - short story
• 101 - Lemurienne - (1971) - poem (variant of The Lemurienne 1923)
• 105 - Editor's Note [3] (Poseidonis) - essay by Lin Carter
• 107 - The Epiphany of Death - (1934) - short story
• 115 - Editor's Note [4] (Poseidonis) - essay by Lin Carter
• 116 - In Cocaigne - (1922) - poem
• 117 - Symposium of the Gorgon - (1958) - short story
• 127 - The Venus of Azombeii - (1931) - novelette
• 158 - The Isle of Saturn - (1951) - poem
• 160 - The Root of Ampoi - (1949) - short story
• 177 - The Invisible City - (1932) - short story
• 202 - Amithaine - (1951) - poem
• 203 - The Willow Landscape - (1931) - short story
• 209 - The Shadows - (1922) - poem

Contents:

• v - Introduction to The Klarkash-Ton Cycle - essay by Robert M. Price
• 1 - The Ghoul - (1934) - shortstory
• 8 - A Rendering from the Arabic - shortstory
• 25 - The Hunters from Beyond - (1932) - shortstory
• 44 - The Vaults of Abomi - shortstory
• 67 - The Nameless Offspring - (1932) - novelette
• 88 - Ubbo-Sathla - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - shortstory
• 98 - The Werewolf of Averoigne - [Averoigne] - (1984) - shortstory
• 115 - The Eidolon of the Blind - shortfiction
• 133 - Vulthoom - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1935) - novelette
• 162 - The Treader of the Dust - (1935) - shortstory
• 172 - The Infernal Star - (1989) - novelette
• 203 - Story Intros (The Klarkash-Ton Cycle) - essay by Robert M. Price

Into the Dark Magic of the House of Carnby There Comes a Visitor of Dread.

This short story is included in the collections:

• The Return of the Sorcerer (2012), Clark Ashton Smith
• Out of Space and Time (1942), (Clark Ashton Smith
• Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987), editors Martin H. Greenberg, Carol Serling, Charles G. Waugh
• The Door to Saturn: Volume Two of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith (2007), Clark Ashton Smith

It first appeared in the September 1931 Issue of Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror available free on Internet Archives.

An artist, poet, and prolific contributor to Weird Tales, Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1967) is an influential figure in the history of pulp fiction. A close correspondent and collaborator with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was widely celebrated as a master by his contemporaries. Back in print for the first time since 1971, Out of Space and Time showcases the many facets of Smith's unique prose that make him one of the greatest American writers of macabre and fantastic tales.

Here are tales of Averoigne, tales belonging to the Cthulhu, stories of sheer horror, and one or two of sardonic comedy. Jeff VanderMeer provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.

Contents:

• v - Introduction (Out of Space and Time) - essay by Jeff VanderMeer
• xv - Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy - (1942) - essay by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
• 3 - The End of the Story - [Averoigne] - (1930) - novelette
• 25 - A Rendezvous in Averoigne - [Averoigne] - (1931) - shortstory
• 43 - A Night in Malnéant - (1933) - shortstory
• 51 - The City of the Singing Flame - [Singing Flame - 1] - (1931) - novella
• 100 - The Uncharted Isle - (1930) - shortstory
• 115 - The Second Interment - (1933) - shortstory
• 129 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - shortstory
• 144 - The Chain of Aforgomon - (1935) - novelette
• 165 - The Dark Eidolon - [Zothique] - (1935) - novelette
• 198 - The Last Hieroglyph - [Zothique] - (1935) - shortstory
• 218 - Sadastor - (1930) - poem
• 222 - The Death of Ilalotha - [Zothique] - (1937) - shortstory
• 236 - The Return of the Sorcerer - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - shortstory
• 257 - The Testament of Athammaus - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - shortstory
• 280 - The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - shortstory
• 291 - Ubbo-Sathla - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - shortstory
• 303 - The Monster of the Prophecy - (1932) - novelette
• 347 - The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1932) - novelette
• 367 - From the Crypts of Memory - (1917) - poem
• 369 - The Shadows - (1922) - poem

An artist, poet, and prolific contributor to Weird Tales, Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1967) is an influential figure in the history of pulp fiction. A close correspondent and collaborator with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was widely celebrated as a master by his contemporaries. Back in print for the first time since 1971, Lost Worlds brings together twenty-three of Smith's classic stories, all of which were originally published in Weird Tales. Rather than center his works on heroes, Smith created fantastical worlds around which he built cycles of stories. Included here are tales from the realms of Averoigne, Zothique, Hyperborea, and others. Told in lush poetic prose, these haunting stories bring to life dark, dreamlike realms full of gothic monsters and mortals. Jeff VanderMeer provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.

Contents:

• viii - Introduction (Lost Worlds) - essay by Jeff VanderMeer
• 3 - The Tale of Satampra Zeiros - [Satampra Zeiros] - (1931) - shortstory
• 18 - The Door to Saturn - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - shortstory
• 42 - The Seven Geases - [Hyperborea] - (1934) - novelette
• 67 - The Coming of the White Worm - [Hyperborea] - (1941) - shortstory
• 85 - The Last Incantation - [Malygris] - (1930) - shortstory
• 91 - A Voyage to Sfanomoë - [Poseidonis] - (1931) - shortstory
• 101 - The Death of Malygris - [Malygris] - (1934) - shortstory
• 119 - The Holiness of Azédarac - [Averoigne] - (1933) - novelette
• 144 - The Beast of Averoigne - [Averoigne] - (1933) - shortstory
• 159 - The Empire of the Necromancers - [Zothique] - (1932) - shortstory
• 171 - The Isle of the Torturers - [Zothique] - (1933) - shortstory
• 190 - Necromancy in Naat - [Zothique] - (1936) - novelette
• 214 - Xeethra - [Zothique] - (1934) - novelette
• 239 - The Maze of Maal Dweb - [Maal Dweb] - (1933) - shortstory
• 255 - The Flower-Women - [Maal Dweb] - (1935) - shortstory
• 271 - The Demon of the Flower - (1933) - shortstory
• 283 - The Plutonian Drug - (1934) - shortstory
• 296 - The Planet of the Dead - (1932) - shortstory
• 311 - The Gorgon - (1932) - shortstory
• 325 - The Letter from Mohaun Los - (1932) - novelette (variant of Flight into Super-Time)
• 366 - The Light from Beyond - (1933) - novelette
• 390 - The Hunters from Beyond - (1932) - shortstory
• 410 - The Treader of the Dust - (1935) - shortstory

Beyond Sea and Sky the Wizard Eibon Pursues His Outlandish Wanderings.

This short story is included in the collections:

• The Door to Saturn: Volume Two of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith (2007), Clark Ashton Smith
• Lost Worlds (2006), Clark Ashton Smith
• The Emperor of Dreams (2002), Clark Ashton Smith
• The Book of Eibon (2002), editor Robert M. Price

It first appeared in the January 1931 Issue of Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror available free on Internet Archives.

A poetic and fanciful tale about a king who invoked the aid of magic to summon his lost love.

This short story is included in the collections;

• "The Emperor of Dreams", Clark Ashton Smith(2002)
• "Lost Worlds", Clark Ashton Smith (1944)

It first appeared in the June, 1930 Issue of Weird Tales, available free on Internet Archives.

Even in death, the mighty wizard proved himself greater than his peers - a story of weird sorcery.

This short story is included in the collections:

• Lost Worlds (1944), Clark Ashton Smith
• The Emperor of Dreams (2002), Clark Ashton Smith

It first appeared in the April, 1934 Issue of Weird Tales, available free on Internet Archives.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy - (1942) - essay by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
• 13 - The End of the Story - [Averoigne] - (1930) - novelette
• 35 - A Rendezvous in Averoigne - [Averoigne] - (1931) - short story
• 53 - A Night in Malnéant - (1933) - short story
• 61 - The City of the Singing Flame - [Singing Flame] - (1940) - novelette (variant of City of Singing Flame)
• 109 - The Uncharted Isle - (1930) - short story
• 125 - The Second Interment - (1933) - short story
• 139 - The Chain of Aforgomon - (1935) - novelette
• 159 - The Dark Eidolon - [Zothique] - (1935) - novelette
• 191 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - short story

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy - (1974) - essay by uncredited
• 13 - The Last Hieroglyph - [Zothique] - (1935) - short story
• 33 - Sadastor - (1930) - poem
• 39 - The Death of Ilalotha - [Zothique] - (1937) - short story
• 53 - The Return of the Sorcerer - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - short story
• 75 - The Testament of Athammaus - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - short story
• 99 - The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan - [Hyperborea] - (1932) - short story
• 111 - Ubbo-Sathla - [Hyperborea] - (1933) - short story
• 123 - The Monster of the Prophecy - (1932) - novelette
• 167 - The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis - [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] - (1932) - novelette
• 189 - From the Crypts of Memory - (1917) - poem
• 191 - The Shadows - (1922) - poem

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work. This first volume of the series, brings together 25 of his fantasy stories, written between 1925 and 1930, including such classics as "The Abominations of Yondo," "The Monster of the Prophecy," "The Last Incantation" and the title story.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The End of the Story) • essay by Ramsey Campbell
• A Note on the Texts (The End of the Story) • essay by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
• To the Daemon (1943) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Abominations of Yondo (1926) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Sadastor (1930) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Ninth Skeleton (1928) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Last Incantation [Malygris] (1930) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The End of the Story [Averoigne] (1930) • novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Phantoms of the Fire (1930) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• A Night in Malnéant (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Thirteen Phantasms (1936) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Venus of Azombeii (1931) • novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Tale of Satampra Zeiros [Satampra Zeiros] (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Monster of the Prophecy (1932) • novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Metamorphosis of the World (1951) • novelette by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of The Metamorphosis of Earth)
• The Epiphany of Death (1934) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• A Murder in the Fourth Dimension (1930) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of Murder in the Fourth Dimension)
• The Devotee of Evil (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Satyr [Averoigne] (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Planet of the Dead (1932) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Uncharted Isle (1930) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Marooned in Andromeda [Captain Volmar • 1] (1930) • novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Root of Ampoi (1949) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Necromantic Tale (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Immeasurable Horror (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• A Voyage to Sfanomoë [Poseidonis] (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Story Notes (The End of the Story) • essay by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
• "The Satyr": Alternate Conclusion [Averoigne] (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• From the Crypts of Memory (1917) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• Bibliography (The End of the Story) • essay by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work. This second volume of the series brings together 20 of his fantasy stories.

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• Introduction (The Door to Saturn) (2007), essay by Tim Powers
• A Note on the Texts (The Door to Saturn), essay by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
• The Door to Saturn [Hyperborea] (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Red World of Polaris [Captain Volmar] (2003), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• Told in the Desert (1964), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Willow Landscape (1931), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• A Rendezvous in Averoigne [Averoigne] (1931), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Gorgon (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• An Offering to the Moon (1953), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Kiss of Zoraida (1933), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Face by the River (2004), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Ghoul (1934), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Kingdom of the Worm (1933), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• An Adventure in Futurity (1931), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Justice of the Elephant (1931), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Return of the Sorcerer [Cthulhu Mythos] (1931), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The City of the Singing Flame [Singing Flame, 1] (1941), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of The City of Singing Flame 1931)
• A Good Embalmer (1989), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Testament of Athammaus [Hyperborea] (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• A Captivity in Serpens [Captain Volmar, 2] (1931), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Letter from Mohaun Los (1932), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of Flight into Super-Time)
• The Hunters from Beyond (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Story Notes (The Door to Saturn), essay by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
• Alternate Ending to "The Return of the Sorcerer", short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Bibliography (The Door to Saturn), essay by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
• About the Editors (The Door to Saturn), essay by uncredited

A Vintage from Atlantis is the third of five volumes that collects all of Clark Ashton Smith's tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, faithfully following Smith's manuscripts. It includes, in chronological order, all of his stories from "The Holiness of Azédarac" (November 1933) to "The Colossus of Ylourgne" (June 1934). This volume also features an introduction by Michael Dirda, as well as extensive notes on each story.

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• Introduction (A Vintage From Atlantis), essay by Michael Dirda
• A Note on the Texts (A Vintage from Atlantis), essay by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
• The Holiness of Azédarac [Averoigne] (1933), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Maker of Gargoyles [Averoigne] (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Beyond the Singing Flame [Singing Flame • 2] (1931), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• Seedling of Mars [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] (1931), novelette by E. M. Johnston and Clark Ashton Smith (variant of The Planet Entity) [as by Clark Ashton Smith]
• The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis [Mars (Clark Ashton Smith)] (1932), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Eternal World (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Demon of the Flower (1933), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Nameless Offspring (1932), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• A Vintage from Atlantis [Poseidonis] (1933), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan [Hyperborea] (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Invisible City (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Immortals of Mercury (1932), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Empire of the Necromancers [Zothique] (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Seed from the Sepulcher (1933), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Second Interment (1933), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Ubbo-Sathla [Hyperborea] (1933), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Double Shadow [Poseidonis] (1933), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Plutonian Drug (1934), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Supernumerary Corpse (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Colossus of Ylourgne [The Colossus of Ylourgne] (1934), novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• The God of the Asteroid (1932), short story by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of Master of the Asteroid)
• Story Notes (A Vintage From Atlantis), essay by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
• The Flower-Devil (1922), poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• Bibliography (A Vintage From Atlantis), essay by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger

This series presents Clark Ashton Smith's fiction chronologically, based on composition rather than publication. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts.

The Maze of the Enchanter includes, in chronological order, all of his stories from "The Mandrakes" (February, 1933) to "The Flower-Women" (May, 1935). This volume also features an introduction, and extensive notes on each story.

he Last Hieroglyph is the fifth of five volumes that collect all of Clark Ashton Smith's tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, faithfully following Smith's manuscripts. It includes, in chronological order, all of his stories from "The Dark Age" (April 1938) to "The Dart of Rasasfa" (July 1961). This volume also features an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, as well as extensive notes on each story.

Clark Ashton Smith was one of the most remarkable and distinctive American poets of the twentieth century. His tremendous output of poetry, totaling nearly 1000 original poems written over a span of more than fifty years, is of the highest craftsmanship and runs the gamut of subject matter from breathtaking "cosmic" verse about the stars and galaxies to plangent love poetry to pungent satire to delicate imitations of Japanese haiku.

This edition prints, for the first time, Smith's entire poetic work, including hundreds of uncollected and unpublished poems. The poems have been arranged chronologically by date of writing, so far as can be ascertained. This first volume includes poetry from the first two to three decades of Smith's career, when he published such noteworthy volumes as The Star-Treader (1912), Ebony and Crystal (1922), andSandalwood (1925).

Smith's early work was written under the tutelage of the celebrated California poet George Sterling, but Smith quickly surpassed his mentor in the writing of cosmic and lyric verse. Smith's greatest poetic triumph, perhaps, was The Hashish-Eater, a poem of nearly 600 lines that strikingly evokes the myriad suns of unbounded space and the baleful monsters that may lurk therein. But Smith could also write such touching elegies as "Requiescat in Pace," a dirge for a woman whose death affected him deeply.

This second volume of Clark Ashton Smith's complete original poetry contains the poems he wrote in the decades following the death in 1926 of his early mentor, George Sterling. Although much affected by Sterling's passing, Smith carried on in his poetic work, seeking new modes of expression and expanding his range beyond the cosmic and lyrical verse that had dominated his early career.

Having taught himself French in the mid-1920s, Smith began composing original poems in French, also translating them into English or translating his earlier English poems into French. Although Smith wrote relatively little verse during the period of his extensive writing of fantastic fiction (1929–35), he resumed work in the later 1930s, especially under the influence of his friends Eric Barker and Madelynne Greene, for whom he wrote the poetic cycle entitled The Hill of Dionysus. In the late 1940s he experimented with imitations of Japanese haiku, and in the 1950s, having taught himself Spanish, he wrote numerous original poems in Spanish. Also among his later output are a number of witty satires on the vagaries of modern poetry. In its entirety, Clark Ashton Smith's work stands as one of the great literary contributions to twentieth-century poetry.

All poems have been textually corrected by consultation with manuscripts and early appearances, and have been extensively annotated by editors S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. This volume also contains an exhaustive commentary on all the poems and a complete title and first line index.

In addition to being a prolific and innovative poet in his own right, Clark Ashton Smith was a noted translator of French and Spanish poetry. Teaching himself French in the mid-1920s, Smith undertook the ambitious program of translating the entirety of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) into English.

Over the next several years he succeeded in translating all but six of the 157 poems that comprised the definitive (1868) edition of Les Fleurs du mal. Smith would begin with a relatively literal prose translation and would later render it into verse; in the end, Smith versified about a third of the poems, the rest remaining in prose.

His mentor George Sterling testified to the remarkable spiritual affinity between Smith and Baudelaire, rendering him the perfect translator of this difficult poet. Smith also translated other noteworthy French poets-Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, and Théophile Gautier, among others-as well as such obscure poets as Marie Dauguet and Tristan Klingsor. In the 1940s Smith taught himself Spanish, making splendid verse translations of such poets as Amado Nervo, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, and and Jorge Isaacs. The great majority of the poems included in this volume are unpublished.

The current edition presents, for the first time, Smith's complete translations in French and Spanish, also printing the French and Spanish texts on facing pages. All texts are annotated by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz.