Name: the maker of gargoyles and other stories
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Author: Clark Ashton Smith
ISBN: 9780809511198

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the maker of gargoyles and other stories

Type

Physical Book

Author

Clark Ashton Smith

Illustrated by

John Gregory Betancourt

Introduction by

Darrell Schweitzer

Publisher

Wildside Press

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

156

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0809511193

ISBN13

9780809511198

Synopsis "the maker of gargoyles and other stories"

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. Think of the visions his stories conjure up as sendings, written in strange 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

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Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was an American writer, poet, and artist, noted for his contributions to fantasy, horror, and science fiction literature. Born in Long Valley, California, he was self-taught and a close friend of H.P. Lovecraft, with whom he shared correspondence and collaborations in the Cthulhu Mythos.

Among his most notable works are Zothique: The Last Continent and Hyperborea and Other Lost Worlds, both collections of stories that explore imaginary worlds and were published in Spanish. In addition to his literary work, Smith also dedicated himself to sculpture and painting, leaving a multifaceted artistic legacy.

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