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Back in print in new trade paperback editions, the third of five
volumes collecting the complete stories of renowned "weird fiction"
author Clark Ashton Smith. "None strikes the note of cosmic horror
as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and
fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other
writer." H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the
greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird
Tales, helped define and shape "weird fiction" in the early
twentieth century, alongside contemporaries H. P. Lovecraft and
Robert E. Howard, drawing upon his background in poetry to convey
an unparalleled richness of imagination and expression in his
stories of the bizarre and fantastical. The Collected Fantasies
series presents all of Smith's fiction chronologically. Authorized
by the author's estate and endorsed by Arkham House, the stories in
this series are accompanied by detailed background notes from
editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, who in preparation for this
collection meticulously compared original manuscripts, various
typescripts, published editions, and Smith's own notes and letters.
Their efforts have resulted in the most definitive and complete
collection of the author's work to date. A Vintage from Atlantis is
the third of five volumes collecting all of Clark Ashton Smith's
tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. It includes all of
his stories from "The Holiness of Azedarac" (1931) to "The God of
the Asteroid" (1932), as well as an introduction by Michael Dirda.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is
proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in
science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion,
near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery,
contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and
horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and
much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York
Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula
award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a
diverse group of authors.
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.
Clark Ashton Smith -- one of the "big three" classic authors from
the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales (the others being H.P.
Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard) -- began writing early in the
twentieth century. By the 1920s, he became a regular poet and
author in Weird Tales magazine, helping to usher in its golden age.
"The Double Shadow" was originally published by the Auburn Journal
in 1933 in an oversized edition limited to only 1,000 copies. Smith
carefully signed and hand-corrected many typographical errors for
years to come. A collection of six stories ranging from
contemporary horror to weird alternate-world fantasy, it remains a
fascinating introduction and showcase to his decadently jeweled
prose.
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great
cosmic masters of the supernatural
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.
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), and
Sandalwood (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. 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 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-1920's Smith began composing
original poems in French. After focusing primarily on the writing
of fantastic fiction from 1925-35, he resumed his poetic output
with such masterworks as The Hill of Dionysus. In the late 1940's
he experimented with haiku, and in the 1950's 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.
Poetry readers and fantasy connoisseurs the world over have
treasured "A Wine of Wizardry" and "The Hashish-Eater" for almost a
century. Written by George Sterling in 1904 and Clark Ashton Smith
in 1920 respectively, these poems have been the supporting lintel
and threshold to a fantastic doorway of the imagination for
generations of enthralled readers. Now at last there is a
contemporary response to these masterworks from poets as diverse
and distinguished as Richard L. Tierney, Bruce Boston, Alan
Gullette, Leigh Blackmore, Michael Fantina, Wade German, Earl
Livings, and Kyla Lee Ward. Their magnificent poems evoke the
enduring, timeless qualities of Sterling's and Smith's masterpieces
and rework the spell to enthral a new generation. "We seem to be in
the midst of a renaissance of fantastic poetry, as the present
volume attests. The poets in this book have found in their work the
inspiration to weave a tapestry of weirdness that stands as a
substantial contribution to the fantastic verse of our own time.
Connoisseurs of poetry know what aesthetic pleasures are in store
for them when they read vivid, meticulously crafted work such as is
contained in this book." S. T. Joshi (author Supernatural
Literature of the World, I Am Providence, H. P. Lovecraft: A
Comprehensive Bibliography) "Inspired by George Sterling and Clark
Ashton Smith, yet fueled by the twenty-first century talents of
celebrated poets from both hemispheres, this collection of vintages
has something for every rarefied taste. From hashish dreams to
psychic expeditions through deep space-time, here are experiences
not to be found elsewhere. Sip slowly, and revel in the flight."
Ann K. Schwader (author Twisted in Dream, In the Yaddith Time, Wild
Hunt of the Stars) "A feast of fantastic verse, a special delight
for Klarkash-tonians who need no further reassurance that the
stately, cosmic tradition represented by such masterpieces as 'The
Star-Treader' and 'The Hashish-Eater' is alive and well." Darrell
Schweitzer (author Pathways to Elfland, Windows of the Imagination,
Exploring Fantasy Worlds)
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. 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 Theophile 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.
This new collection assembles some of the rarest fantasy and horror
stories from the pen of Clark Ashton Smith. Included are "The White
Sybil," "Chinoiserie," "The Raja and the Tiger," "The Justice of
the Elephant," "The Kiss of Zoraida," "The Ghoul," "Something New,"
"The Malay Krise," "The Ghost of Mohammed Din," "The Mirror in the
Hall of Ebony," "The Mahout," "The Primal City," "The Hunters from
Beyond," "The Passing of Aphrodite," "The Tale of Sir John
Maundeville," and "The Light from Beyond."
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