06.09.2020

“The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith” edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger

Magick Matters
"The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith" edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
"The Miscellaneous Fictions of Clark Ashton Smith gathers together the adventure, juvenilia and other non-fantastic fiction of Smith. While he is known best for his fantastic work, these adventure and mainstream stories shed light on the development of Smith’s writing and his constantly evolving style. The Miscellaneous Fictions is a perfect companion to the five volume Collected Fantasies set. As with that set, editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have prepared this volume by comparing original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts."...>>
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06.09.2020

“The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith” edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger (five-volume set)

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"The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith" edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger (five-volume set)
"Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Connors and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive “preferred text” for Smith's entire body of work. Volume 1: The End Of The Story Volume 2: The Door To Saturn Volume 3: A Vintage From Atlantis Volume 4: The Maze of the Enchanter Volume 5: The Last Hieroglyph"...>>
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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synopses he never finished during his lifetime, this is perhaps the largest single collection of all his published and unpublished fiction."...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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