The following is a list of works by Clark Ashton Smith .
The following is a list of works by Clark Ashton Smith .
| Title | Date published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Fictional setting | Notes | Online versions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Abominations of Yondo | Apr 1926 | Overland Monthly (Vol 84, #4) | The Abominations of Yondo | |||
| An Adventure in Futurity | Apr 1931 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | |||
| The Amazing Planet | Summer 1931 | Wonder Stories Quarterly (Summer) | Other Dimensions | The Alcyone | also titled "A Captivity in Serpens" | |
| The Beast of Averoigne | May 1933 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Averoigne | abridged version original published version | |
| Beyond the Singing Flame | Nov 1931 | Wonder Stories | The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: A Vintage from Atlantis | sequel to The City of the Singing Flame, later merged with it | ||
| The Black Abbot of Puthuum | Mar 1936 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | ||
| The Chain of Aforgomon | Dec 1935 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | |||
| The Charnel God | Mar 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | ||
| Checkmate | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1930 | ||
| The City of the Singing Flame | Jul 1931 | Wonder Stories | Out of Space and Time | |||
| The Colossus of Ylourgne | Jun 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Averoigne | ||
| The Coming of the White Worm | Apr 1941 | Stirring Science Stories | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | written in 1933 | abridged version |
| A Copy of Burns | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1930 | ||
| The Dark Age | Apr 1938 | Thrilling Wonder Stories [2] | The Abominations of Yondo | |||
| The Dark Eidolon | Jan 1935 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Zothique | ||
| The Dart of Rasasfa | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1961 | ||
| The Death of Ilalotha | Sep 1937 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Zothique | ||
| The Death of Malygris | Apr 1934 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Poseidonis | ||
| The Demon of the Flower | Dec 1933 | Astounding Stories | Lost Worlds | |||
| The Devotee of Evil | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | The Abominations of Yondo | unpublished synopsis | ||
| The Dimension of Chance | Nov 1932 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | |||
| The Disinterment of Venus | Jul 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Averoigne | unpublished synopsis | |
| The Door to Saturn | Jan 1932 | Strange Tales | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | ||
| Double Cosmos | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1934-1940 | ||
| The Double Shadow | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Out of Space and Time | Poseidonis | unpublished synopsis | |
| The Dweller in the Gulf | Mar 1933 | Wonder Stories | The Abominations of Yondo | Aihai (Mars) | ||
| The Empire of the Necromancers | Sep 1932 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | ||
| The Enchantress of Sylaire | Jul 1941 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Averoigne | ||
| The End of the Story | May 1930 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Averoigne | ||
| The Epiphany of Death | Jul 1934 | The Fantasy Fan [3] | The Abominations of Yondo | |||
| The Eternal World | Mar 1932 | Wonder Stories [4] | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
| The Expert Lover | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1925 | ||
| The Face by the River | Mar 2004 | Lost Worlds: The Journal of Clark Ashton Smith Studies #1 | The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Door To Saturn | written in 1930 | ||
| The Flirt | Mar 1923 | Live Stories (vol 36) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction | ||
| The Flower-Women | May 1935 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Xiccarph | ||
| The Garden of Adompha | Apr 1938 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | ||
| Genius Loci | Jun 1933 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
| The Ghoul | Jan 1934 | The Fantasy Fan | Other Dimensions | |||
| A Good Embalmer | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1931 | ||
| The Gorgon | Apr 1932 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | |||
| The Great God Awto | Feb 1940 | Thrilling Wonder Stories | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
| The Holiness of Azédarac | Nov 1933 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Averoigne | ||
| The Hunters from Beyond | Oct 1932 | Strange Tales | Lost Worlds | |||
| The Ice-Demon | Apr 1933 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Hyperborea | ||
| The Immeasurable Horror | Sep 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
| The Immortals of Mercury | 1932 | Science Fiction Series (#16) | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
| The Invisible City | Jun 1932 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | |||
| The Isle of the Torturers | Mar 1933 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | ||
| The Justice of the Elephant | Fall 1931 | Oriental Stories (Fall) | Other Dimensions | |||
| The Kiss of Zoraida | Jul 1933 | The Magic Carpet | Other Dimensions | |||
| The Last Hieroglyph | Apr 1935 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Zothique | ||
| The Last Incantation | Jun 1930 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Poseidonis | ||
| The Letter from Mohaun Los | Aug 1932 | Wonder Stories | Lost Worlds | also titled "Flight into Super-Time" | ||
| The Light from Beyond | Apr 1933 | Wonder Stories | Lost Worlds | also titled "The Secret of the Cairn" | ||
| The Maker of Gargoyles | Aug 1932 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Averoigne | ||
| The Mandrakes | Feb 1933 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | Averoigne | ||
| Marooned in Andromeda | Oct 1930 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | The Alcyone | ||
| Master of the Asteroid | Oct 1932 | Wonder Stories | Tales of Science and Sorcery | also titled "The God of the Asteroid" | ||
| The Master of the Crabs | Mar 1948 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Zothique | ||
| The Maze of the Enchanter | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Lost Worlds | Xiccarph | alternate version published in Weird Tales Oct 1938 as "The Maze of Maâl Dweb" | |
| The Metamorphosis of Earth | Sep 1951 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | written in 1929 | ||
| The Monster of the Prophecy | Jan 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | also titled "A Prophecy of Monsters" | ||
| Monsters in the Night | Oct 1954 | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | Other Dimensions | |||
| Morthylla | May 1953 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Zothique | ||
| Mother of Toads | Jul 1938 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Averoigne | original published version | |
| Murder in the Fourth Dimension | Oct 1930 | Amazing Detective Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
| The Nameless Offspring | Summer 1932 | The Magazine of Horror (#33) | The Abominations of Yondo | |||
| Necromancy in Naat | Jul 1936 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | ||
| The Necromantic Tale | Jan 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
| Nemesis of the Unfinished | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1947 | ||
| A Night in Malnéant | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Out of Space and Time | Averoigne | ||
| The Ninth Skeleton | Sep 1928 | Weird Tales [5] | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
| An Offering to the Moon | Sep 1953 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | Lemuria | written in 1930 | |
| The Parrot | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1930 | ||
| The Perfect Woman | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1923 | ||
| The Phantoms of the Fire | Sep 1930 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
| Phoenix | 1954 | Time to Come (Farrar, Straus & Young) | Other Dimensions | |||
| The Planet of the Dead | Mar 1932 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | also titled "The Doom of Antarion" | ||
| A Platonic Entanglement | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1923 | ||
| The Plutonian Drug | Sep 1934 | Amazing Stories | Lost Worlds | |||
| The Primal City | Nov 1934 | The Fantasy Fan [6] | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
| The Red World of Polaris | 2003 | Red World of Polaris | The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Door To Saturn | The Alcyone | written in 1930 | |
| A Rendezvous in Averoigne | Apr/May 1931 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Averoigne | ||
| The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake | Oct 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
| The Return of the Sorcerer | Sep 1931 | Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror | Out of Space and Time | was the basis for Rod Serling's Night Gallery 29, (1972) | variant ending | |
| The Root of Ampoi | Spring 1949 | The Arkham Sampler [7] | Tales of Science and Sorcery | written in 1930 | ||
| Sadastor | Jul 1930 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | |||
| The Satyr | Jul 1931 | La Paree Stories | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Averoigne | alternative ending | |
| Schizoid Creator | Nov 1953 | Fantasy Fiction | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
| The Second Interment | Jan 1933 | Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror | Out of Space and Time | |||
| The Seed from the Sepulchre | Oct 1933 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
| Seedling of Mars | Fall 1931 | Wonder Stories Quarterly (Fall) V3 #1 | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
| The Seven Geases | Oct 1934 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | note: a geis or geas is a curse in Celtic mythology | |
| Something New | Aug 1924 | 10 Story Book (V23 #6) | Other Dimensions | non-fantastic fiction | ||
| A Star-Change | May 1933 | Wonder Stories | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
| Strange Shadows | Nov 1985 | The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (11) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | three drafts exist, the third with the title "I Am Your Shadow", written in 1938-1941 | ||
| The Supernumerary Corpse | Nov 1932 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | synopsis | ||
| Symposium of the Gorgon | Oct 1958 | Fantastic Universe Science Fiction (V10 #4) | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
| The Tale of Satampra Zeiros | Nov 1931 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | ||
| The Tale of Sir John Maundeville | Oct 1933 | The Fantasy Fan | Other Dimensions | also titled "The Kingdom of the Worm" | ||
| The Testament of Athammaus | Oct 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Hyperborea | unpublished synopsis | |
| The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles | Mar 1958 | Saturn Science Fiction and Fantasy (V1 #5) | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Hyperborea | ||
| The Third Episode of Vathek | Summer 1937 | Leaves (Summer) | The Abominations of Yondo | a fragment by William Beckford completed by Smith | ||
| Thirteen Phantasms | Mar 1936 | Fantasy Magazine | Other Dimensions | written in 1929 | ||
| Told in the Desert | 1964 | Over the Edge : Stories to Freeze Your Blood | Other Dimensions | written in 1930 | ||
| The Tomb-Spawn | May 1934 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Zothique | ||
| The Treader of the Dust | Aug 1935 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | |||
| Ubbo-Sathla | Jul 1933 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Hyperborea | see Clark Ashton Smith deities | unpublished synopsis |
| The Uncharted Isle | Nov 1930 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Lemuria | ||
| The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis | May 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Aihai (Mars) | abridged version unpublished synopsis | |
| The Venus of Azombeii | Jun 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
| A Vintage from Atlantis | Sep 1933 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Poseidonis | unpublished synopsis | |
| The Voyage of King Euvoran | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | The Abominations of Yondo | Zothique | alternate version published in Weird Tales Sep 1947 as "The Quest of the Gazolba" | |
| A Voyage to Sfanomoë | Aug 1931 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Poseidonis | ||
| Vulthoom | Sep 1935 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Aihai (Mars) | also exists as a synopsis. see Clark Ashton Smith deities. | synopsis version |
| The Weaver in the Vault | Jan 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | ||
| The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan | Jun 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Hyperborea | also exists as a synopsis | synopsis version |
| The White Sybil | 1935 | The White Sybil | The Abominations of Yondo | Hyperborea | ||
| The Willow Landscape | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
| The Witchcraft of Ulua | Feb 1934 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Zothique | ||
| Xeethra | Dec 1934 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | ||
| Title | Date published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Fictional setting | Notes | Online versions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Across the Time-Stream | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis for what would become "The Eternal World" | ||
| The After-Men | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Arm from the Fig-Tree | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Ascharia | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and a fragment | ||
| The Atmospheric Entity | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Between Two Worlds | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Beyond the Rose-Arbor | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| A Bottle On the Orinoco | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Burial-Place of the Unknown | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Cairn | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Chincharrero | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| The Conquest of Mercury | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Cosmic Sequel | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Crabs of Iribos | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Cypress | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Dead Assassins | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Demon From Alphard | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Destination of Gideon Balcoth | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Djinn without A Bottle | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| The Dome in the Ice | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Doom of Azédarac | 1979 | The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a fragment | ||
| The Double Dream | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Eggs from Saturn | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| The Elder Manor | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Embassy to Tiirath | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Entity of the Sands | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Eviction by Night | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| An Excursion in Time | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Feet of Sidaiva | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Zothique | a one-sentence plot synopsis | |
| From A Lost World | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Galley from Atlantis | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Gargoyle of Vyones | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a synopsis | |
| The Ghoul from Mercury | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| A Gift from the Beloved | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The God of the Asteroid | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Gossip | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| Hecate | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| The House of Haon-Dor | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Hyperborea | a fragment, written in 1933 | |
| The Hyperborean City | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Hyperborea | a synopsis | |
| I Am A Witch | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| In A Hashish-Dream | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| In the Book of Vergama | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| The Infernal Star | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| The Inverse Avatar | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Invisible Devourer | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| The Invisible Satellite | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| The Lord of Lunacy | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| The Lunar Brain | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Lunar Path | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Maker of Prodigies | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Mandor's Enemy | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Zothique | a fragment | |
| The Master of Destruction | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment and a synopsis | ||
| The Mechanical Murder | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| Men of the Macrocosm | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Menace of the Dust | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| The Minotaur's Brother | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| A Misadventure of Don Juan | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Mnemoka | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| The Moon-Spectre | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Moraine | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| The Mummy-Case of Hammen-Tha | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Music of Death | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and a fragment | ||
| The Mysterious Poison | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| Neria | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Ocean-World of Alioth | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | The Alcyone | a synopsis and a fragment | |
| Offspring of the Grave | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Oracle of Sadoqua | 1979 | The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a fragment | ||
| The Other Entity | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| The Pilgrim of Eternity | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Point of the Jest | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| Poseidon | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| Prisoners of the Black Dimension | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| The Protean People | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| Queen of the Sabbat | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a synopsis | |
| The Re-Union | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a two-sentence synopsis | ||
| The Rebirth of the Flame | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The River of Mystery | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Scarab | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Shapes of Adamant | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Zothique | a fragment | |
| Slaves of the Black Pillar | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and fragment, also titled "The Drug from Algol" | ||
| A Sojourn in Mercury | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
| The Sorceress of Averoigne | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a fragment, also titled "The Tower of Istarelle" | |
| The Spectral Tarn | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| A Tale of Gnydron | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Thing from the Antarctic | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Transformation of Athanor | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Trilithon | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Unquiet Boundary | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| The Vapor from the Void | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Vestibule of the Past | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Vizaphmal in Ophiuchus | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Werewolf of Averoigne | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a synopsis | |
| Wingless Phoenix | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
| The World-Maker | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| The Youngest Vampire | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
| Title | Date written/published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Fictional setting | First line | Notes | Online versions |
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| The Abomination of Desolation | Dec 18, 1929 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The desert of Soom is said to lie at the world's unchartable extreme, between the lands that are little known and those that are scarcely… | also titled "The Desolation of Soom" and "The Horror of Soom" | ||
| The Black Lake | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In a land where weirdness and mystery had strongly leagued themselves with eternal desolation, the lake was out-poured at an undiscoverable date of elder aeons,… | |||
| The Caravan (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | My dreams are like a caravan that departed long ago, with tumult of intrepid banners and spears, and the clamour of bugles and brave, adventurous… | |||
| Chinoiserie | 1960 | The Abominations of Yondo (1960) | The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Ling Yang, the poet, sits all day in his hut among the willows by the river-side, and dreams of the Lady Moy. Spring and the… | |||
| The City of Destruction | 1948 | Arkham Sampler (Winter) V1 #1, (1948) | Selected Poems, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The city is surrounded with ramparts like a mountain-range… | a prose version of "The City of Destruction", after Smith's unfinished poem of that name; a fragment | ||
| The Corpse and the Skeleton | Apr 15, 1915 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Scene: The catacombs of the ancient city of Oomal. A new corpse has been deposited alongside a skeleton, which, from its mouldiness and worm-picked appearance,… | |||
| The Crystals (Clark Ashton Smith) | Jul 2, 1914 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Raptly as one who would divine the perilous eyes of Sleep, and the dreams and mysteries which lurk therein, I sought to fathom the gulf-enclosing… | |||
| The Days (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1973 | Grotesques and Fantastiques: A Selection of Previously Unpublished Drawings and Poems (1973) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988), Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith (1989) | O Fairest, O dearest, to what shall I liken thy days? Methinks are as precious gems, as pearls and amethysts, which, from a broken string,… | |||
| The Demon, the Angel, and Beauty | c. May 1913 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Of the Demon who standeth or walketh always with me at my left hand, I asked: Hast thou seen Beauty? Her that meseemeth was the… | |||
| A Dream of Lethe | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In the quest of her whom I had lost, I came at length to the shores of Lethe, under the vault of an immense, empty,… | |||
| Ennui (In) | Feb 26, 1918 | Selected Poems (1971) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In the alcove whose curtains are cloth-of-gold, and whose pillars are fluted sapphire, reclines the emperor Chan, on his couch of ebony set with opals… | |||
| The Flower Devil | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In a basin of porphyry, at the summit of a pillar of serpentine, the thing has existed from primeval time, in the garden of the… | |||
| The Forbidden Forest (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The child Natha lived with his father and mother in a little house not far from the verge of the great jungle. Every day he… | |||
| From the Crypts of Memory | 1922 | Bohemia V2 #3, (Apr 1917), Ebony and Crystal, Auburn Journal (1922) | Out of Space and Time, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Aeons of aeons ago, in an epoch whose marvelous worlds have crumbled, and whose mighty suns are less than shadow, I dwelt in a star… | two versions | ||
| The Frozen Waterfall | 1988 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | I returned on a winter day to the mountain stream, upon whose banks we roamed so long ago when the rich azaleas leaned above it… | |||
| The Garden and the Tomb | Jun 9, 1915 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I know a garden of flowers-flowers lovely and marvellous and multiform as the orchids of far, exotic worlds-as the flowers of manifold petal, whose colours… | |||
| The Image of Bronze and the Image of Iron | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In the temple of the city of Morm, which lies between the desert and the sea, are two images of thegod Amanon,- a bronze image… | unfinished | ||
| Images | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922), Auburn Journal, (19 Jul 1923) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Thy tears are not as mine: Thou weepest as a green fountain among palms and roses, with lightly falling drops that bedew the flowery turf.… | |||
| In Cocaigne | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922), Auburn Journal, (19 Jul 1923) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | It was a windless afternoon of April, beneath skies that were tender as the smile of love, when we went forth, you and I, to… | |||
| The Lake of Enchanted Silence | 1988 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | It lies with in a land that is only seen by the sun and the moon and the horizon-questing stars. The sky-wrestled mountains, like sentries… | |||
| The Land of Fruitful Palms | 1988 and 1989 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | It is a land of fruitful palms and flowering myrtles, with winds that are gentle as the sighs of woman, and pearling fountains delicious as… | untitled fragment | ||
| The Litany of the Seven Kisses | Apr 13, 1921 | Ebony and Crystal (1922), Laughing Horse #6, (1923) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I kiss thy hands-thy hands. whose fingers are delicate and the pale as the petals of the white lotus. | |||
| The Lotus and the Moon | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I stood with my beloved in the lotus pool, when the moon was round as the great ivory breast of a Titaness, and the flowers… | |||
| The Memnons of the Night | Feb 1917 | Bohemia V2 #1, (1 Feb 1917), Ebony and Crystal, Auburn Journal (1922), Phantagraph V4 #2, (Dec 1935) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Ringed with a bronze horizon, which, at a point immensely remote, seems welded with the blue brilliance of a sky of steel, they oppose the… | |||
| The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony | 1960 | The Abominations of Yondo (1960) | The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | From the nethermost profound of slumber, from a gulf beyond the sun and stars that illume the Lethean shoals and the vague lands of somnolent… | |||
| The Mithridate | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The world has a thousand poisons, thin or potent, honey-like or nauseous, quick or languid, corrosive and deadly, or captious and deceptive and narcotic. There… | |||
| The Mortuary | 1971 | The Mortuary, Roy A. Squires (1971) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | I sought the cloister of the dead, when, fallen athwart the funereal glooms of yew and cypress, the sunset wrought a phantom flush upon the… | |||
| The Muse of Atlantis | 1973 | Poseidonis (1973) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Poseidonis | Will you not join me in Atlantis, where we will go down through streets of blue and yellow marble to the wharves of orichalch, and… | also titled "From a Letter" | version "from a letter" |
| The Muse of Hyperborea | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Hyperborea | Too far away is her wan and mortal face, and too remote are the snows of her lethal breast, for mine eyes to behold them… | ||
| Narcissus | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Splenetic, pale Narcissus, in the green dead depth of some rotting pool: thou seest thine image drown and re-emmerge, beneath the shifting iridescence of corruption,… | |||
| Offering | March 12, 1928 | Grotesques and Fantastiques: A Selection of Previously Unpublished Drawings and Poems (1973) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Hast thou desired to love wherein the fervor of the mountain flames of autumn is mingled with all the tenderness of half-unfolded… | |||
| The Osprey and the Shark | December 18, 1929 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | An osprey who had sighted a plump turbot glided to the surface of the waves; and at that very same moment a… | |||
| The Passing of Aphrodite | Dec 1934 | The Fantasy Fan V2 #4, (Dec 1934), Acolyte (Summer) V1 #4, (1943) | The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In all the lands of Illarion, from mountain-valleys rimmed with unmelting snow, to the great cliffs of sand whose reflex darkens a sleepy, tepid sea,… | |||
| The Peril That Lurks Among Ruins | 1945 | Acolyte (Winter) V1 #2, (1945) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Go not too often among ruins, said the Daemon in one of his... | two versions | ||
| A Phantasy (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I have dreamt of an unknown land-a land remote in ulterior time, and alien space not ascertainable; the desert of a long-completed past, upon which… | |||
| Preference | 1988 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | I would rather look upon thy face than upon the gardens of Atlantis, in the setting of a hyacinthine sun than necromancers have summoned.I would… | |||
| The Princess Almeena | Feb 1920 | Smart Set V61 #1, (Feb 1920), Ebony and Crystal, Auburn Journal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | From her balcony of pearl, the princess Almeena, clad in a gown of irisated silk, with her long and sable locks unbound, gazes toward the… | |||
| Remoteness | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | There are days when all the beauty of the world is dim and strange; when the sunlight about me seems to fall on a land… | |||
| The Shadows (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Out of Space and Time, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | There were many shadows in the palace of Augusthes, About the silver throne that had blackened beneath the invisible passing of ages, they fell from… | |||
| The Statue of Silence | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I saw a statue, carven I knew not of what substance, nor with what form or feature, because of the manifold draper of black which… | |||
| The Sun and the Sepulchre | Jun 22 c.1914-15 | California Poets (1932) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I saw the declivous latter sunlight fall and glitter upon the sepulchre of one whose immomentous name was holden awhile from Oblivion by the deeply-trenched… | |||
| To the Daemon | Dec 16, 1929 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Tell me many tales, O benign maleficent daemon, but tell me none that I have ever heard or have even dreamt of otherwise than obscurely… | |||
| The Touch-Stone | Dec 18, 1929 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Nasiphra the philosopher had sought through many years and in many lands for the fabled touch-stone, which was said to reveal the true nature of… | |||
| The Traveller (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Stranger, where goest thou, in the sad raiment of a pilgrim, with shattered sandals retaining the dustand mire of so many devious ways? With thy… | |||
| Vignettes | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Surely, beyond the mountains there is peace-beyond the mountains that lie so blue and still at the world's extreme. Such ancient calm, such infinite quietude… | |||
| Title | Date published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Notes | Online versions |
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| The Animated Sword | 2011 | The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith | The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1905 | |
| The Black Diamonds | 2002 | The Black Diamonds | The Black Diamonds | novel, written in 1907 | |
| The Bronze Image | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | ||
| The Emerald Eye | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | |
| The Emir's Captive | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | ||
| Fakhreddin | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | ||
| The Fulfilled Prophecy | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | ||
| The Ghost of Mohammed Din | Nov 1910 | Overland Monthly | Other Dimensions | ||
| The Guardian of the Temple | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | |
| The Haunted Chamber | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | ||
| The Haunted Gong | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | ||
| The Mahout | Aug 1911 | The Black Cat (V16 #11) | Other Dimensions | ||
| The Malay Krise | Oct 1910 | Overland Monthly | Other Dimensions | also published as "The Malay Creese" | |
| The Opal of Delhi | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | 2 fragments | fragment I fragment II |
| Prince Alcouz and the Magician | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | 2nd version | |
| The Raja and the Tiger | Feb 1912 | The Black Cat (V17 #5) | Other Dimensions | ||
| The Red Turban | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | first published as a fragment, complete text published in The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith | |
| The Shah's Messenger | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | ||
| The Sword of Zagan | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | ||
| When the Earth Trembled | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | |
| The Yogi's Ring | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | |
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Clark Ashton Smith was an American writer and artist. 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 Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures".
Arkham House was an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had previously been published only in pulp magazines. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham, Massachusetts. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their printing and binding. The colophon for Arkham House was designed by Frank Utpatel.
Seabury Grandin Quinn was an American government lawyer, journalist, and pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales.
Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin. He is best known for his work in the 1970s as editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, which introduced readers to many overlooked classics of the fantasy genre.
Donald Sidney-Fryer is a poet and entertainer principally influenced by Edmund Spenser and Clark Ashton Smith.
"Worms of the Earth" is a short story by American fantasy fiction writer Robert E. Howard. It was originally published in the magazine Weird Tales in November 1932, then again in 1975 in a collection of Howard's short stories, Worms of the Earth. The story features one of Howard's recurring protagonists, Bran Mak Morn, a legendary king of the Picts.
Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei. He had fourteen stories in Weird Tales, another sixteen in Astounding Stories, plus a few in other magazines including Esquire. Wandrei was the co-founder of the prestigious fantasy/horror publishing house Arkham House.
David Henry Keller was an American writer who worked for pulp magazines in the mid-twentieth century, in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. He was also a psychiatrist and physician to shell-shocked soldiers during World War I and World War II, and his experience treating mentally ill people is evident in some of his writing, which contains references to mental disorders. He initially wrote short stories as a hobby and published his first science fiction story in Amazing Stories in 1928. He continued to work as a psychiatrist while publishing over sixty short stories in science fiction and horror genres. Technically, his stories were not well-written, but focused on the emotional aspects of imaginative situations, which was unusual for stories at the time.
Jason Van Hollander is an American illustrator, book designer and occasional author. His stories and collaborations with Darrell Schweitzer earned a World Fantasy Award nomination. Van Hollander's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Weird Tales, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction and other publications.
Out of Space and Time is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by American writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1942 and was the third book published by Arkham House. 1,054 copies were printed. A British hardcover appeared from Neville Spearman in 1971, with a two-volume paperback reprint following from Panther Books in 1974. Bison Books issued a trade paperback edition in 2006.
The Dark Chateau is a collection of poems by American writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1951 and was the author's fourth book to be published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 563 copies. The book was intended to be a stop-gap volume representing Smith's poetry while the more extensive Selected Poems was being prepared, although Selected Poems did not ultimately appear until 1971.
Other Dimensions is a collection of stories by American writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1970 and was the author's sixth collection of stories published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 3,144 copies. The stories were originally published between 1910 and 1953 in Weird Tales and other pulp magazines.
Mary Elizabeth Counselman was an American writer of short stories and poetry.
The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith is a transcription of a notebook that was kept by author Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1979 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,588 copies. The book was transcribed from Smith's notebook by Donald Sidney-Fryer and Robert A. ('Rah') Hoffman. Appended to the transcription are two memoirs of Smith by George F. Haas.
The Young Magicians is an American anthology of fantasy short stories, edited by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in October 1969 as the seventh volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. It was the second such anthology assembled by Carter for the series, issued simultaneously with the first, Dragons, Elves, and Heroes. The book has been translated into German.
New Worlds for Old is an anthology of fantasy short stories, edited by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in September 1971 as the thirty-fifth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. It was the fourth such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.
Hyperborea is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-ninth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1971. It was the second themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, notably Weird Tales.
Zothique is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the sixteenth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1970. It was the first themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines in the 1930s, notably Weird Tales.
Xiccarph is a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories by American writer Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the forty-first volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in February 1972. It was the third collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy and SF magazines in the 1930s, notably Weird Tales.
Poseidonis is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifty-ninth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1973. It was the fourth collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines in the 1930s and 1940s, notably Weird Tales.