Clark Ashton Smith was a prodigy, who wrote Arabian Nights novels
in his mid-teens and was heralded as a major voice in American
poetry by the time he was nineteen. In one frantic burst in the
middle 1930s, he wrote nearly a hundred strange, wondrous, and
grotesque stories, most of which were published in Weird Tales,
Strange Tales, Wonder Stories, and other pulps, but he was by no
means a conventional pulp writer. A direct heir to Edgar Allan Poe
and to the late Romantics and Decadents, a translator of
Baudelaire, Smith wrote in baroque, jeweled prose of distant times
and remote planets, of baleful magics and reanimated corpses, lost
lovers, eldritch gods, and inexorable fate. He is also a writer
whose works refuse to die, even after nearly a century. Think of
him as the sorcerer-poet, alone in his eyrie in the dry California
hills, dreaming his strange dreams and creating his unique
worlds-of Zothique, the Earth's haunted last conti- nent at the end
of time, Hyperborea, a prehistoric land, Posei- donis, the last
foundering isle of Atlantis, and Averoigne, an unhistoried province
of medieval France, thick with vampires. runes, transported from
the sorcerer's lair by in- describable genii or winged spirits. His
stories are altogether unlike anyone else's and quite wonderful,
among the treasures of fantastic literature. This fine collection
of Clark Ashton Smith's work reprints eight of his classic
fantasies, including two set in Hyperborea.
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