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 st[...]

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 wo[...]

An artist, poet, and prolific contributor to "Weird Tales", Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1967) is an influential figure in the history of pulp fiction. A close correspondent and collaborator with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was widely celebrated as a master by his contemporaries. Back in[...]

Clark Ashton Smith -- one of the "big three" classic authors from the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales (the others being H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard) -- began writing early in the twentieth century. By the 1920s, he became a regular poet and author in Weird Tales magazine, helping to ushe[...]

"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" in[...]

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[...]