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The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis Clark Ashton Smith Edited by Steve Behrends. 3rd Necronomicon Press Stapled Chapbook 1993. Great cover by Bob Knox. ... Read more

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'Tis the season to look to Garfield for greetings that deck the halls with his special brand of holiday cheer. Here are 30 full-color yuletide postcards for everyone on your list. Each jolly wish is perforated and can be easily separated from the binding for sending.
This year, when you think of stockings and mistletoe, snowy streets and silent nights, think of Garfield and send a little holiday magic to the people you care for most. ... Read more

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Magnificent mind-bending tales of swords and sorcery. ... Read more

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58 poems by the weird poet Clark Ashton Smith. Smith was a friend of H.P. Lovecraft, and Lovecraft's influence can be seen throughout his poetry.

Includes:

Haunting (1922)
The Hidden Paradise (1922)
The Hope of the Infinite (1922)
The Horizon (1911)
Impression (1922)
In November (1919)
In Saturn (1919)
Inferno (1918)
The Infinite Quest (1922)
Inheritance (1922)
The Kingdom of Shadows (1922)
Lament of the Stars (1912)
The Land of Evil Stars (1922)
The Last Night (1912)
Laus Mortis (1921)
Lethe
A Live-Oak Leaf (1911)
Love is not Yours, Love is not Mine (1922)
Love Malevolent (1922)
The Mad Wind (1912)
The Masque of the Foresaken Gods (1912)
The Maze of Sleep (1912)
Medusa (1911)
The Medusa of Despair (1913)
The Medusa of the Skies (1912)
The Melancholy Pool (1922)
Memnon at Midnight (1918)
The Ministers of Law (1918)
Mirage (1922)
Mirrors (1922)
The Mirrors of Beauty (1922)
Moonlight (1910)
The Morning Pool (1912)
The Motes (1922)
The Mummy (1919)
The Nemesis of Suns (1912)
The Nereid (1913)
Nero (1912)
The Night Forest (1912)
Nightmare (1922)
Nirvana (1912)
November Twilight (1922)
Ode on Imagination (1912)
Ode to Music (1912)
Ode to the Abyss (1911)
The Orchid of Beauty (1922)
Palms (1920)
Pine Needles (1912)
A Precept (1922)
The Price (1912)
Psalm (1922)
A Psalm to the Best Beloved (1922)
Psalm to the Desert (1915)
Quest (1922)
Recompense (1922)
The Refuge of Beauty (1918)
Remembered Light (1912)
Requiescat (1922)
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ne of Clark Ashton Smith's best fantasy stories from Weird Tales, "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" chronicles the strange doom of Avoosl Wuthoqquan, greedy money-lender. Introduction by John Gregory Betancourt. ... Read more

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This volume collects three classic fantasies: "The Colossus of Ylourgne," "The Dark Eidolon," "The Charnel God," and "The Abominations of Yondo." ... Read more

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GOTHIC ZOTHIQUE
If Clark Ashton Smith has never yet achieved the cult status that H P Lovecraft has long enjoyed, then I for one am baffled as to why not. In my own opinion Smith is a better storyteller for one thing, but what seems to me to be completely beyond argument is that Smith is a far, far better writer. The man has a magnificent English vocabulary, apart from anything else. I suppose my own vocabulary is as good as most people's, I suppose I count as reasonably well read, but I am in no doubt at all that I have learned more new words from my intermittent reading of Smith than I have learned from any other writer over the last 30 years. He does not overdo it either. His style of writing is relaxed and natural, and although he is obviously showing off to a certain extent, he is so delightfully tongue-in-cheek that he takes the reader along with him. If I had ever known the word aspergillus in my early years as an altar-boy I had certainly forgotten it by the time I read these stories. As a typical instance of Smith in full flow, you may like the following, taken from The Dark Eidolon `The rays of the lamps that illumed it were saffron-red like the spilt ichor of devils, and they flowed on aludels and crucibles and black athanors and alembics'. Great stuff. In case anyone wants to know, the word eidolon itself is the original Greek form of the English `idol'. In Greek it meant any kind of image, and I know its use best from the fourth book of the Odyssey, in which Penelope conducts a dialogue in a dream with the `eidolon amauron', the `dim phantom'.

The print in this edition is very easy to read and the level of accuracy is good in general, so in any reprint the editors should correct the back cover, which says that there are three stories when in fact there are four; and also the reverse of the title-page, which mentions The Chain of Aforgomon instead of The Dark Eidolon. To be precise, the stories here are The Abominations of Yondo, The Dark Eidolon, The Charnel God and The Colossus of Ylourgne. They are all uncomplicated recreational reading, I can detect no parables, allegories or `messages' in them, nor do I want to. They are also, in my own decided view, very good quality, and I hope you will share my own enjoyment in reading them. ... Read more

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The Last Hieroglyph is the fifth of the five volume Collected Fantasies series. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts. The Last Hieroglyph includes, in chronological order, all of Clark Ashton Smith's stories from "The Dark Age" to "The Dart of Rasasfa." ... Read more

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Nostalgia of the Unknown The Complete Prose Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith 1st Necronomicon Press Stapled Chapbook 1988. Great Cover by Robert Knox. Rounds out what Gerry de la Ree set out to do. ... Read more

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Perfect Bound softcover chapbook (Size: 8 ½" x 11"). Contents of Issue Number 3:1. "The Shadow of the Unattained" by Clark Ashton Smith. A previously unpublished poem.2. "Clark Ashton Smith" by William Whittingham Lyman. A previously unpublished memoir.3. Symposium: On the Discovery of the Lost Smith Works: Essays concerning the discovery of "The Face in the River" and "The Red World of Polaris," two previously unpublished Smith tales that were thought lost until discovery in 2004.* "The "Face" Behind the Mask" by Scott Connors* "The River and The Red World" by Brian Stableford* "Worlds Lost within Worlds" by Don Herron* "If Zothique had Electrical Engineers: Some Thoughts on the New Two" by Steve Behrends* "Evoking Wonder" by Mike Ashley4. "Satampra "Lefty" Zeiros" by Dan Clore. As the title indicates, this essay concerns the two tales about Satampra Zeiros ("The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" and "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles").5. "Amithaigne" by Ronald S. Hilger. A dissection of the poem of the same name.6. "On the Authorship of a Review of Ebony and Crystal" by Donald Sidney-Fryer. Mr. Sidney-Fryer revisits the topic of who wrote an unsigned review of Smith's collection.7. "Reviews" include Smith's The Hashish-Eater and Other Poems performed by Donald Sidney-Fryer (reviewed by S.T. Joshi), Smith's The Black Diamonds and The Sword of Zagan and Other Writings (reviewed by Alan Gullette), George Sterling's The Thirst of Satan (reviewed by Richard Hughey), and From Baltimore to Bohemia: The Letters of H. L. Mencken and George Sterling (reviewed by Richard Hughey).8. "From the Vaults of Yoh-Vombis": A reprint of a set of questions regarding Smith from a college literature textbook (circa 1935).9. Also includes an Editorial by Scott Connors, a full-color interior reprint of the cover art ('Uranus' by Clark Ashton Smith), and several Smith drawings from Grotesques and Fantastiques (1973). ... Read more

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It is indeed strange that John Milwarp and his writings should have fallen so speedily into semi-oblivion. His books, treating of Oriental life in a somewhat flowery, romantic style, were popular a few months ago. But now, in spite of their range and penetration, their pervasive verbal sorcery, they are seldom mentioned; and they seem to have vanished unaccountably from the shelves of book-stores and libraries.

Even the mystery of Milwarp's death, baffling to both law and science, has evoked but a passing interest, an excitement quickly lulled and forgotten.

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For the first time, Clark Ashton Smith's "The Necromancy in Naat" is published in full (both original and revised editions) with demarcation of the alterations between the two. Featuring an introduction by Scott Connors, a previously unpublished Virgil Finlay illustration for "The Necromancy in Naat", a full color reprint of the Clark Ashton Smith cover art ("The Tree"), reviews by Donald Sidney-Fryer and John Alfred Taylor, and a memoir by Don Herron of recently deceased Smith scholar Charles K. Wolfe (aka Ceewolf). ... Read more

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Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. His formal education was limited: he suffered from psychological disorders and for this reason attended only eight years of grammar school and never went to high school. However, he continued to teach himself after he left school, learning French and Spanish, and his nearphotographic memory allowed him to retain prodigious amounts from his very wide reading, including several entire dictionaries and encyclopedias. In his later youth he became the protégé of the San Francisco poet George Sterling, who helped him to publish his first volume of poems, The Star-Treader and Other Poems, at the age of nineteen. The Star-Treader was received very favorably by American critics. Smith made the acquaintance of Sterling through a member of the local Auburn Monday Night Club, where he read several of his poems with considerable success. The publication of Ebony and Crystal in 1922 was followed by a fan letter from H. P. Lovecraft, which was the beginning of fifteen years of friendship and correspondence. His other works include: Odes and Sonnets (1918) and Sandalwood (1925). ... Read more

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As the sun goes down over a wonderful series
The legendary Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series was approaching its final few volumes when this anthology appeared, although readers still hoped for many more years of it. Published in conjunction with its more classical literary companion, "Golden Cities, Far," it offered another superb selection of fantasy short stories & poems, complete with copious notes from editor Lin Carter.

While not drawing upon the work of quite so many fantasy masters this time around, Carter did give readers a more eclectic mix. So we have a short piece by Poe, a humorous but thoughtful fairy tale from George MacDonald, some high quality sword & sorcery from the likes of C. L. Moore (one of her best Jirel of Joiry tales) & Robert E. Howard (an ancestral memory tale, rather than more of the immortal but familiar Conan) -- and more besides!

Particularly interesting is a lost chapter from Mervyn Peake's "Titus Alone," and another fragment of Carter's own never-written epic "Khymyrium." Anything by Peake is worth reading, of course! And Carter's fragment is a reminder of what might have been, had he pushed himself past pastiche in the 1970s, rather than losing his way & much of his inspiration.

But there's a sense of something lost about this whole anthology, not only because the series as a whole was ending, but because the times were changing so much. The creative fire of the 1960s was fading, and fantasy would soon become one more mass-market niche, with plenty of new authors, but little of the magic that made the older works glow so brilliantly. Even the cover art was soon to change to something more generic, alas.

As always, you can find most of these stories in other collections now. But if you should come across a copy of this paperback, pick it up as a memento & treasure of a golden era in fantasy. Most highly recommended! ... Read more