Author: Clark Ashton Smith
Year: 1944
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Horror, Fantasy
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9780803293519
9780854351114
0803293518
0854351116 |
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An artist, poet, and prolific contributor to
, 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,
brings together twenty-three of Smith's classic stories, all of which were originally published in
. 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.
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