Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter, and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics (alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and others) and remembered as 'The Last...

ENTER THE HAUNTED LAND OF AVEROIGNE 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 Vynes in the heart of Averoigne. Even the holy Abbey of Périgon is defiled by cursed statues and demons...

Clark Ashton Smith - widely regarded as the third of the "Big Three" to emerge from the early days of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (after H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard) - published dozens of weird fantasy tales. "The Abominations of Yondo" is one of his finest.

Selected carefully by well-respected editor Robert Weinberg and with an introduction by award-winning author Gene Wolfe, The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith offers both readers and scholars a definitive collection of short fiction and short novels, by an overlooked master of fantasy, horror and science-fiction.

It was late in the afternoon, and we were seated on the veranda of my friend's bungalow in the Begum suburb at Hyderabad. Our conversation had turned to ghosts, on which subject I was, at the time, rather skeptical, and Nicholson, after relating a number of blood-curdling stories, had finished by remarking that a nearby house, which was said to be haunted, would give me an excellent chance to put the matter to the test.

Long before the association with "Weird Tales" magazine and H.P. Lovecraft that led to his enduring fame, Clark Ashton Smith was a well-regarded regional poet whose tastes ran to the romantic and the fantastic. This collection of poems - originally published in 1918 - presents some of his best early work.

El hijo de un emigrado inglés, después de la muerte de su padre, realiza un viaje a su Inglaterra natal para recorrer los parajes donde se desarrolló su infancia. Un día, cuando ya anochecía y perdido en medio de una espesa niebla, encuentra una siniestra y solitaria mansión donde solicita poder pasar la noche. Dicha mansión resulta ser Tremoth Hall, la casa de Sir John Tremoth, un antigo camarada de su difunto padre, el cual le contó en el...

Este relato pertenece al ciclo Hyperbóreo del autor, ciclo en el que se relatan historias sobre aquel continente prehistórico poblado por hechiceros y misteriosas criaturas. Ubbo-Sathla es una principales contribuciones de Clark Ashton Smith a los Mitos de Cthulhu, siendo aquel una deidad incluso más antigua que el propio Cthulhu. Esta deidad, sumamente antigua y poderosa, posee el poder de crear vida, y también de destruirla. Según el Libro...

Six short sagas of suspense and surprise, born from the mind of the master of pulp horror, Clark Ashton Smith are brought to life with the narration of Will Hahn. This value-bundle contains some of Smith's most bizarre notions, strewn across dimensions, outer space, and of course from beyond the grave: • The Double Shadow • The Death of Malygris • The Black Abbot of Puthuum • Witchcraft of Ulua • Phoenix • Necromancy in Naat The text...

The pulp horror classic by Clark Ashton Smith, now in the public domain, comes to life again under the narration of storyteller Will Hahn. An acolyte steeped in wizardly lore assists his master to uncover an ancient tablet and decipher its dread secrets. Hear the result of their forbidden researches in this frightful tale of Things Man Was Not Meant to Know. Cover design by Katharina Kolata, Independent Bookworm, using art by grandfailure, Depositphoto....