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06.09.2020

“The Ultimate Weird Tales Collection – 133 stories – Clark Ashton Smith”

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"The Ultimate Weird Tales Collection - 133 stories - Clark Ashton Smith"
"133 Weird Tales-era works of horror, science fiction and fantasy have been gathered here into one volume, all written by Clark Ashton Smith, who was the third member of the literary circle that included authors Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft. Excluding only fragmentary notes, excerpts and synopses he never finished during his lifetime, this is perhaps the largest single collection of all his published and unpublished fiction."...>>
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06.09.2020

“The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies” by Clark Ashton Smith (Penguin Classics)

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"The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies" by Clark Ashton Smith (Penguin Classics)
"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...>>
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06.09.2020

“The Averoigne Archives” by Clark Ashton Smith

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"The Averoigne Archives" by Clark Ashton Smith
"Collected into one volume are all of "Weird Tales" author Clark Ashton Smith's short stories of Averoigne, the sinister, monster-haunted province of medieval France. Werewolves and satyrs stalk the dark forests, witches and necromancers lurk in the swamps, and gargoyles and giants terrorize the cathedral city of Vyônes in the heart of Averoigne. Even the holy Abbey of Périgon is defiled by cursed statues and demons from the stars. Come, explore the mysteries of Averoigne... if you dare."...>>
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06.09.2020

“The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram” by Michael Benjamin

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"The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram" by Michael Benjamin
"The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram – A Twenty-first Century Grimoire is the most comprehensive examination of this foundational Magickal ritual as originally taught within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In this work, author Michael Benjamin extracts deeply from his two decades of experience as a practicing occultist, mystic, and esoteric scholar. Drawing from such erudite resources as Eliphas Levi, Israel Regardie, W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Alexandra David-Neel, and various charter members of the Golden Dawn, the author adds his own insightful perspicacity gained from several years of habitual daily performance of this ritual. In addition to holding a B.A. in History, and advanced black belts in four different...>>
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