Clark Ashton Smith

13 Jan 1893 – 14 Aug 1961

100 works on record

Biography

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". Smith was one of "the big three of *Weird Tales*, with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", but some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. The fantasy critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. His work is marked by an extraordinarily rich and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor. Of his writing style, Smith stated: "My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation." **Source**: [Clark Ashton Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith) on Wikipedia.

Works

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

2001

Other Dimensions

Magic Journeys

Fantasy Classics

Horror Classics

100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories

The Death of Malygris

The Coming of the White Worm

The Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith

The Book of Hyperborea

The Bronze Image

The Colossus of Ylourgne

The Chain of Aforgomon

The Charnal God

Giants

The Death of Ilalotha

The Dark Eidolon

De kolos van Ylourgne

The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories]

De gewelven van Yoh-Vombis

Hiperborea

The Vampire Archives

The Year's Best Fantasy Stories #2 [DAW 205]

Abominations of Yondo

Other Dimensions: v. 2

Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography

The Klarkash-Ton Cycle: The Lovecraftian Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith (Chaosium Fiction) (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 9

A Vintage From Atlantis

Avatars of Wizardry: Poetry Inspired by George Sterling's "A Wine of Wizardry" and Clark Ashton Smith's "The Hashish-Eater"

Die Stadt der singenden Flamme: Gesammelte Erzählungen 1

The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy

La flamme chantante

Das Labyrinth des Maal Dweb: Gesammelte Erzählungen 3

Die Totenbeschwörer von Naat: Gesammelte Erzählungen Band 5

Xiccarph

L empire des necromants n18

The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith

Zothique en andere Verloren Werelden

Zothique

Tales for the Camp Fire: A Charity Anthology Benefitting Wildfire Relief

The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Maze of the Enchanter

The end of the story

The Door to Saturn: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 2 (Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smit)

Odes and Sonnets

High Adventure #153

Faszination der Science Fiction

A Vintage from Atlantis: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 3 (Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smit)

Out of Space and Time Volume One (Volume 1)

The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Door To Saturn

The Last Hieroglyph: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 5 (Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smit)

The return of the sorcerer

Fantastic Stories Presents the Weird Tales Super Pack #2

Swords Against Darkness

The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

The Maze of the Enchanter

The Dark Eidolon

The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 2

The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

Weird Tales

The Empire of the Necromancers

Die Bestie von Averoigne

Die Grabgewölbe von Yoh-Vombis

Der doppelte Schatten

Cuentos De Averoigne

In the Realms of Mystery and Wonder

The Colossus of Ylourgne and Three Others

The Complete Poetry and Translations of Clark Ashton Smith--3 Volume Set

Poséidonis

Odes and Sonnets Illustrated

Hiperbórea

The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 2

The Maker of Gargoyles and Other Stories

The Double Shadow

Isaac Asimov Präsentiert Sagenwelt Der Fantasy

The monster of the prophecy

The Star-treader

Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill : The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith

Strange Tales

Odes and Sonnets

EXTERUS - Volume 7

The Averoigne Chronicles

One Hundred

Viimeinen hieroglyfi

Nero

The immortals of Mercury

The ghoul and the seraph

The White Sybil

Witchcraft of Ulua

Xeethra

L'Île inconnue

Shadows seen and unseen

Planets and dimensions

Lost Worlds

The star-treader

Strange shadows

The Weaver in the Vault (Zothique)

The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 2

The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 1

The Emperor of Dreams