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} }) </script> </div> </form> </fieldset> <article class="entryArticle content STeditorial"> <header class="entryHeader icon-author"> <h1 class="entryTitle">Smith, Clark Ashton </h1> </header><p class='tagLine'>Entry updated 2 September 2024. Tagged: Author.</p><div class="browsingBtns"> <span> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=smith_clark_ashton'" value="Prev" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=smith_clark_ashton'" value="Next" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=smith_clark_ashton'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> </span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=smith_clark_ashton&abc'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=smith_clark_ashton'" ></span> <span style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.open('/gallery.php?link=smith_clark_ashton');"> <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img></span> </div><p style='float:right; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:10px; position: relative; top: 3px;'> <a href='/gallery.php?id=161326.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/161326.jpg' alt='pic'></a></p> <p>(1893-1961) US sculptor and author, of primary interest for his tales of <a href="/entry/science_fantasy">Science Fantasy</a> and horror (see <a href="/entry/horror_in_sf">Horror in SF</a>); the rich style (sometimes idiomatic, sometimes "jewelled" in the early Lord <a href="/entry/dunsany_lord">Dunsany</a> manner) and baroque invention of this work did much to transform the interplanetary romance of the early years of the century into the full-fledged Post-World War Two <a href="/entry/planetary_romance">Planetary Romance</a> which authors like Leigh <a href="/entry/brackett_leigh">Brackett</a> were also shaping into a malleable device. Smith was more specifically instrumental in the creation of the <a href="/entry/far_future">Far Future</a> in general as an sf habitation, as a venue useful for depicting more than the inevitable crisis of <a href="/entry/evolution">Evolution</a> and the <a href="/entry/end_of_the_world">End of the World</a>; his highly influential <a href="/entry/dying_earth">Dying Earth</a> tales, set in various fantasticated venues (sometimes other planets, sometimes perhaps not), were capitalized upon by Jack <a href="/entry/vance_jack">Vance</a> and others. But none of this work comfortably fits within any normal parameter; in their savvy eccentricity, Smith's romances are a very early example of <a href="/entry/equipoise">Equipoise</a>, a term usually used to describe work whose grappling with story forms involves the transfiguration of early modes. Smith – much to the delight of readers who rediscover him – jumps the gun.</p> <p>In any case, treating these venues as inherently unproblematical series markers, Lin <a href="/entry/carter_lin">Carter</a> reassembled many of Smith's Planetary Romances in four volumes contributed to his <b>Ballantine Adult Fantasy</b> sequence [not listed as a series in Checklist], each volume focusing on a single location: <i>Zothique</i> (coll of linked stories <b>1970</b>; exp vt <i>Tales of Zothique</i> <b>1995</b>); <i>Hyperborea</i> (coll of linked stories <b>1971</b>), <i>Xiccarph</i> (coll of stories, some linked, <b>1972</b>) and <i>Poseidonis</i> (coll of linked stories <b>1973</b>); these four volumes brought Smith to an audience broader than he had previously enjoyed. That Smith himself may have had a more complicated sense of his work seems evident from his first collection, <i>The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies</i> (coll <b>1932</b> chap [large pages; reprints of the coll are over 100 pages long]), where at least three tales from various venues are presented together, without comment. The <a href="/entry/arkham_house">Arkham House</a> collections of his work from the 1940s on (see below) were similarly eclectic, though biased towards a presentation of Smith as belonging to the H P <a href="/entry/lovecraft_h_p">Lovecraft</a> orbit.</p> <p>By 1910 Smith had finished what seems to have been his only novel, <i>The Black Diamonds</i> (written <i>circa</i> 1907; <b>2002</b>), and sold stories to <i>The</i> <a href="/entry/black_cat_the">Black Cat</a> and <i>The</i> <a href="/entry/overland_monthly_the">Overland Monthly</a>; but he concentrated mainly on poetry for some years, publishing some sf-tinged but fustian-choked poems in his first book, <i>The Star-Treader and Other Poems</i> (coll <b>1912</b>). His poetry, which offered no narrative constraints to channel <i>Sehnsucht</i>, was never very successful; it has been assembled as <b>Complete Poetry and Translations</b> [for titles see Checklist]. Although he published some <a href="/entry/science_fantasy">Science Fantasy</a> before 1930, almost all his work of note within the genre, beginning with "The Last Incantation" (June 1930 <a href="/entry/weird_tales">Weird Tales</a>), was written by about 1936, when he virtually stopped creative work; almost all his later publications, and certainly the posthumous release of unknown work, come from this period. It is clear that Smith's work was both enabled and constrained (see his poetry for contrast) by the fact that almost his only outlet during these years was the <a href="/entry/pulp">Pulp</a> magazines – most frequently <a href="/entry/weird_tales">Weird Tales</a>, occasionally <a href="/entry/wonder_stories">Wonder Stories</a> – whose editors may have found him difficult to come to terms with. It should be noted that his first book, <i>The Immortals of Mercury</i> (<b>1932</b> chap) for Hugo <a href="/entry/gernsback_hugo">Gernsback</a>'s <a href="/entry/science_fiction_series">Science Fiction Series</a> sequence, and <i>The Double Shadow</i> (see above), contained only previously unpublished stories, almost certainly work refused by the magazine editors of the time.</p> <p><i>The Immortals of Mercury</i> is a conspicuously uneasy <a href="/entry/space_opera">Space Opera</a>. It initially seems to be an attempt to write sf without the ornate accoutrements he usually deployed: an explorer on <a href="/entry/mercury">Mercury</a> is kidnapped by savage natives, saved by seemingly advanced <a href="/entry/immortality">Immortals</a> who live <a href="/entry/underground">Underground</a>, but finds that his protoplasm is necessary to keep them alive, and he escapes. At this point, instead of following his protagonist's climb back upwards to his ship in normal sf fashion, Smith depicts his panicked course deeper and deeper into the horrors beneath Mercury, eating helpless <a href="/entry/monsters">Monsters</a> to stay alive as he goes, emerging finally, dehumanized and frozen, on the night side of the planet, where he freezes to death. One of the few stories that seem comfortable with the demands of <a href="/entry/genre_sf">Genre SF</a> was <i>The City of the Singing Flame</i> (July 1931 <a href="/entry/wonder_stories">Wonder Stories</a>; <b>2011</b> chap), notable for the power of the <a href="/entry/sense_of_wonder">Sense of Wonder</a> it evoked; some of the tales assembled in <i>Red World of Polaris: The Adventures of Captain Volmar</i> (coll of linked stories <b>2003</b>), written but not all published in the early 1930s, convey something similar. <i>As It Is Written</i> (<b>1982</b>) as by Smith was in fact written by De Lysle Ferrée <a href="/entry/cass_de_lisle_ferree">Cass</a> [and is not listed in the Checklist below]; the unsigned manuscript, discovered in the files of <i>The</i> <a href="/entry/thrill_book">Thrill Book</a>, was a <a href="/entry/lost_races">Lost Race</a> tale in a style similar to Smith's.</p> <p>As already noted, Smith's work has appeared variously, according to various criteria of selection and emphasis. The collections from <a href="/entry/arkham_house">Arkham House</a>, though they epigonize him, do comprise the first attempt to make available the full range of his work, over 100 tales in all, in five volumes: <i>Out of Space and Time</i> (coll <b>1942</b>), <i>Lost Worlds</i> (coll <b>1944</b>), <i>The Abominations of Yondo</i> (coll <b>1960</b>) <i>Tales of Science and Sorcery</i> (coll <b>1964</b>) and <i>Other Dimensions</i> (coll <b>1970</b>). The last two collections contain most of his sf. More recently, the <b>Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith</b> sequence, beginning with <i>The Dweller in the Gulf</i> (cut March 1933 <a href="/entry/wonder_stories">Wonder Stories</a> as "Dweller in Martian Depths"; <b>1987</b> chap), provided a selection of restored texts; but it is only with the <b>Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith</b> sequence, beginning with <i>The End of the Story</i> (coll <b>2006</b>) and including sf as well as fantasy, that a full chronological presentation of his work has been available [for further titles in both sequences see Checklist].</p> <p>Smith was not much interested in science, nor in expressing the forward thrusting of conventional sf, though his failure to advocate the future is more in accord with the temper of 1930s sf than is sometimes thought; but still it is inadvisable to think of him as an sf author by instinct. He is perhaps better thought of in terms of his only peers from the 1930s, Robert E <a href="/entry/howard_robert_e">Howard</a> and his friend H P <a href="/entry/lovecraft_h_p">Lovecraft</a>. Though lacking the narrative drive of the first, and the abandoned metaphysical pathos of the second, he was a finer and more civilized writer than either of them. [JC/PN]</p> <p><b>see also:</b> <a href="/entry/asteroids">Asteroids</a>; <a href="/entry/atlantis">Atlantis</a>; <a href="/entry/cordwainer_smith_rediscovery_award">Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award</a>; <a href="/entry/mars">Mars</a>; <a href="/entry/parallel_worlds">Parallel Worlds</a>; <a href="/entry/small_presses_and_limited_editions">Small Presses and Limited Editions</a>; <a href="/entry/sun">Sun</a>; <a href="/entry/sword_and_sorcery">Sword and Sorcery</a>; <a href="/entry/transportation">Transportation</a>; <a href="/entry/venus">Venus</a>.</p> <h3 id="chklst">Clark Ashton Smith</h3> <p><b>born</b> Long Valley, California: 13 January 1893</p> <p><b>died</b> Pacific Grove, California: 14 August 1961</p> <p><b>works</b> (selected)</p> <p><input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=smith_clark_ashton&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=smith_clark_ashton'"></p> <p><b>series</b></p> <p><b>Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Dweller+in+the+Gulf&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Dweller in the Gulf</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1987</b>) [story: chap: early version first appeared March 1933 <a href="/entry/wonder_stories">Wonder Stories</a> as "Dweller in Martian Depths": <b>Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith</b>: pb/Robert H Knox]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Mother+of+Toads&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Mother of Toads</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1987</b>) [story: chap: early version first appeared July 1938 <a href="/entry/weird_tales">Weird Tales</a>: <b>Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith</b>: pb/Robert H Knox]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Vaults+of+Yoh-Vombis&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1988</b>) [story: chap: early version first appeared May 1932 <a href="/entry/weird_tales">Weird Tales</a>: <b>Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith</b>: pb/Robert H Knox]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Monster+of+the+Prophecy&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Monster of the Prophecy</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1988</b>) [story: chap: early version first appeared January 1932 <a href="/entry/weird_tales">Weird Tales</a>: <b>Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith</b>: pb/Robert H Knox]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Xeethra&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Xeethra</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1988</b>) [story: chap: early version first appeared December 1934 <a href="/entry/weird_tales">Weird Tales</a>: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Witchcraft+of+Ulua&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Witchcraft of Ulua</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1988</b>) [story: chap: early version first appeared February 1934 <a href="/entry/weird_tales">Weird Tales</a>: <b>Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith</b>: pb/Robert H Knox]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Hashish-Eater+Or+the+Apocalypse+of+Evil&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Hashish-Eater; Or, the Apocalypse of Evil</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1989</b>) [poem: chap: previously unpublished: <b>Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith</b>: pb/Robert H Knox]</li> </ul> <p><b>Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Collected+Fantasies+of+Clark+Ashton+Smith&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: Volume 1: The End of the Story</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, <b>2006</b>) [coll: edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger: introduction by Ramsey <a href="/entry/campbell_ramsey">Campbell</a>: <b>Collected Fantasies</b>: hb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Collected+Fantasies+of+Clark+Ashton+Smith&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: Volume 2: The Door to Saturn</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, <b>2007</b>) [coll: edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger: introduction by Tim <a href="/entry/powers_tim">Powers</a>: <b>Collected Fantasies</b>: hb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Collected+Fantasies+of+Clark+Ashton+Smith&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: Volume 3: A Vintage from Atlantis</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, <b>2007</b>) [coll: edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger: introduction by Michael <a href="/entry/dirda_michael">Dirda</a>: <b>Collected Fantasies</b>: hb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Collected+Fantasies+of+Clark+Ashton+Smith&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: Volume 4: The Maze of the Enchanter</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, <b>2009</b>) [coll: edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger: introduction by Gahan <a href="/entry/wilson_gahan">Wilson</a>: <b>Collected Fantasies</b>: hb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Collected+Fantasies+of+Clark+Ashton+Smith&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: Volume 5: The Last Hieroglyph</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, <b>2010</b>) [coll: edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger: introduction by Richard A <a href="/entry/lupoff_richard_a">Lupoff</a>: <b>Collected Fantasies</b>: hb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Miscellaneous+Writings+of+Clark+Ashton+Smith&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, <b>2011</b>) [coll: edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger: <b>Collected Fantasies</b>: hb/Jason Van Hollander]</li> </ul> <p><b>Complete Poetry and Translations</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Complete+Poetry+and+Translations+Volume+1&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 1: The Abyss Triumphant</a></em> (New York: Hippocampus Press, <b>2008</b>) [coll: containing poetry and prose: <b>Complete Poetry and Translations</b>: hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Complete+Poetry+and+Translations+Volume+2&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 2: The Wine of Summer</a></em> (New York: Hippocampus Press, <b>2008</b>) [coll: containing poetry and prose: <b>Complete Poetry and Translations</b>: hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Complete+Poetry+and+Translations+Volume+3&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 3: The Flowers of Evil and Others</a></em> (New York: Hippocampus Press, <b>2008</b>) [coll: containing poetry and prose: <b>Complete Poetry and Translations</b>: hb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>individual titles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Black+Diamonds&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Black Diamonds</a></em> (New York: Hippocampus Press, <b>2002</b>) [written <em>circa</em> 1907: introduction by S T <a href="/entry/joshi_s_t">Joshi</a>: illus/pb/Jason C Eckhardt]</li> </ul> <p><b>collections and stories</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Immortals+of+Mercury&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Immortals of Mercury</a></em> (New York: Stellar Publishing Corporation, <b>1932</b>) [novelette: chap: in the publisher's <b>Science Fiction Series</b> #16: pb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Double+Shadow+and+Other+Fantasies&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies</a></em> (Auburn, California: Auburn Journal Print, <b>1933</b>) [coll: chap: large pages: pb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+White+Sybil&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The White Sybil</a></em> (Everett, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Publications, <b>1934</b>) [story: chap: bound with <em>Men of Avalon</em> by David H <a href="/entry/keller_david_h_m_d">Keller</a> MD: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Out+of+Space+and+Time&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Out of Space and Time</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1942</b>) [coll: hb/Hannes <a href="/entry/bok_hannes">Bok</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Out+of+Space+and+Time+Volume+I&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Out of Space and Time Volume I</a></em> (London: Panther Books, <b>1974</b>) [cut vt of the above: containing the first half of the above: pb/Bob <a href="/entry/haberfield_bob">Haberfield</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Out+of+Space+and+Time+Volume+II&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Out of Space and Time Volume II</a></em> (London: Panther Books, <b>1974</b>) [cut vt of the above: containing the second half of the above: pb/Bob <a href="/entry/haberfield_bob">Haberfield</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Lost+Worlds&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Lost Worlds</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1944</b>) [coll: hb/Clark Ashton Smith and E Burt Trimpey] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Lost+Worlds+Volume+1+Zothique+Averoigne+and&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Lost Worlds Volume 1: Zothique, Averoigne, and Others</a></em> (London: Panther Books, <b>1974</b>) [cut vt of the above: containing the first half of the above: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/pennington_bruce">Pennington</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Lost+Worlds+Volume+2+Atlantis+Hyperborea&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Lost Worlds Volume 2: Atlantis, Hyperborea, Xiccarph, and Others</a></em> (London: Panther Books, <b>1974</b>) [cut vt of the above: containing the second half of the above: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/pennington_bruce">Pennington</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Genius+Loci+and+Other+Tales&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Genius Loci and Other Tales</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1948</b>) [coll: hb/Frank Wakefield]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Abominations+of+Yondo&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Abominations of Yondo</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1960</b>) [coll: hb/Wynne Bullock and Ronald <a href="/entry/clyne_ronald">Clyne</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tales+of+Science+and+Sorcery&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tales of Science and Sorcery</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1964</b>) [coll: hb/Frank <a href="/entry/utpatel_frank">Utpatel</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Other+Dimensions&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Other Dimensions</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1970</b>) [coll: hb/Lee Brown Coye] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Other+Dimensions+Volume+1&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Other Dimensions Volume 1</a></em> (London: Panther Books, <b>1977</b>) [cut vt of the above: containing the first half of the above: pb/Rodney <a href="/entry/matthews_rodney">Matthews</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Other+Dimensions+Volume+2&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Other Dimensions Volume 2</a></em> (London: Panther Books, <b>1977</b>) [cut vt of the above: containing the second half of the above: pb/Rodney <a href="/entry/matthews_rodney">Matthews</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Zothique&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Zothique</a></em> (New York: Ballantine Books, <b>1970</b>) [coll of linked stories: edited by Lin <a href="/entry/carter_lin">Carter</a> for <b>Ballantine Adult Fantasy</b>: pb/George <a href="/entry/barr_george">Barr</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tales+of+Zothique&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tales of Zothique</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1995</b>) [coll: exp vt of the above: pb/Homer D Eckhardt and Jason C Eckhardt]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Hyperborea&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Hyperborea</a></em> (New York: Ballantine Books, <b>1971</b>) [coll of linked stories: edited by Lin <a href="/entry/carter_lin">Carter</a> for <b>Ballantine Adult Fantasy</b>: pb/Bill Martin]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Xiccarph&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Xiccarph</a></em> (New York: Ballantine Books, <b>1972</b>) [coll: some linked: edited by Lin <a href="/entry/carter_lin">Carter</a> for <b>Ballantine Adult Fantasy</b>: pb/Gervasio Gallardo]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Poseidonis&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Poseidonis</a></em> (New York: Ballantine Books, <b>1973</b>) [coll of linked stories: edited by Lin <a href="/entry/carter_lin">Carter</a> for <b>Ballantine Adult Fantasy</b>: pb/Gervasio Gallardo]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Mortuary&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Mortuary</a></em> (Glendale, California: Roy Squires Press/Carolyn Wakefield, <b>1971</b>) [prose poem: chap: pb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Sadastor&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Sadastor</a></em> (Glendale, California: Roy A Squires, <b>1972</b>) [prose poem: chap: first appeared July 1930 <a href="/entry/weird_tales">Weird Tales</a>: pb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Prince+Alcouz+and+the+Magician&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Prince Alcouz and the Magician</a></em> (Glendale, California: Roy A Squires, <b>1977</b>) [story: chap: previously unpublished early tale: pb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Book+of+Hyperborea&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Book of Hyperborea</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1978</b>) [coll: edited by Will <a href="/entry/murray_will">Murray</a>: pb/Robert H Knox]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+City+of+the+Singing+Flame&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The City of the Singing Flame</a></em> (New York: Pocket Books/Timescape, <b>1981</b>) [coll: pb/Rowena <a href="/entry/morrill_rowena">Morrill</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+City+of+the+Singing+Flame&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The City of the Singing Flame</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, <b>2011</b>) [novella: chap: containing title story only of the above: first appeared July 1931 <a href="/entry/wonder_stories">Wonder Stories</a>: pb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Last+Incantation&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Last Incantation</a></em> (New York: Pocket Books/Timescape, <b>1982</b>) [coll: pb/Rowena <a href="/entry/morrill_rowena">Morrill</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Monster+of+the+Prophecy&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Monster of the Prophecy</a></em> (New York: Pocket Books/Timescape, <b>1983</b>) [coll: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Rendezvous+in+Averoigne+Best+Fantastic+Tales&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Rendezvous in Averoigne: Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1988</b>) [coll: hb/J K <a href="/entry/potter_j_k">Potter</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Strange+Shadows+The+Uncollected+Fiction+and&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (New York: Greenwood Press, <b>1989</b>) [coll: fiction and nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Red+World+of+Polaris+The+Adventures+of+Captain&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Red World of Polaris: The Adventures of Captain Volmar</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, <b>2003</b>) [coll of linked stories: hb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Maker+of+Gargoyles+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Maker of Gargoyles and Other Stories</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, <b>2004</b>) [coll: hb/Rich DiSilvio]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+White+Sybil+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The White Sybil and Other Stories</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, <b>2004</b>) [coll: hb/Rich DiSilvio]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Black+Abbot+of+Puthuum&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Black Abbot of Puthuum</a></em> (Glendale, California: The RAS Press, <b>2007</b>) [story: chap: first appeared March 1936 <a href="/entry/weird_tales">Weird Tales</a> in cut and rewritten form: original text here restored: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Colossus+of+Ylourgne+and+Three+Others&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Colossus of Ylourgne and Three Others</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, <b>2009</b>) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Empire+of+the+Necromancers+and+Three+Others&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Empire of the Necromancers and Three Others</a></em> (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, <b>2009</b>) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Dark+Eidolon+and+Other+Fantasies&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies</a></em> (New York: Penguin Books, <b>2014</b>) [coll: contains some poetry: edited by S T <a href="/entry/joshi_s_t">Joshi</a>: pb/Clark Ashton Smith]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Averoigne+Chronicles&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Averoigne Chronicles</a></em> (Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, <b>2016</b>) [coll: illus/hb/David Ho]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=In+the+Realms+of+Mystery+and+Wonder+Collected&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">In the Realms of Mystery and Wonder: Collected Prose Poems and Artwork of Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, <b>2018</b>) [coll: hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Interplanetaries+The+Complete+Interplanetary&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Interplanetaries: The Complete Interplanetary Tales of Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (New York: Hippocampus Press, <b>2024</b>) [coll: pb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=In+the+Shadow+of+Boulder+Ridge&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">In the Shadow of Boulder Ridge</a></em> (New York: Hippocampus Press, <b>2024</b>) [coll: edited by Ronald S Hilger: pb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>poetry</b> (highly selected)</p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Star-Treader+and+Other+Poems&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Star-Treader and Other Poems</a></em> (San Francisco, California: A M Robertson, <b>1912</b>) [poetry: coll: hb/uncredited]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Ebony+and+Crystal+Poems+in+Verse+and+Prose&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose</a></em> (Auburn, California: Clark Ashton Smith, <b>1922</b>) [poetry: coll: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ghoul+and+the+Seraph&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ghoul and the Seraph</a></em> (New York: Gargoyle Press, <b>1950</b>) [poem: chap: first published in <em>Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose</em> (coll <b>1922</b>): pb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Dark+Chateau+and+Other+Poems&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Dark Chateau, and Other Poems</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1951</b>) [poetry: coll: chap: hb/Frank <a href="/entry/utpatel_frank">Utpatel</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Spells+and+Philtres&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Spells and Philtres</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1958</b>) [poetry: coll: chap: hb/Frank <a href="/entry/utpatel_frank">Utpatel</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Poems+in+Prose&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Poems in Prose</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1964</b>) [poetry: coll: chap: illus/hb/Frank <a href="/entry/utpatel_frank">Utpatel</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Selected+Poems&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Selected Poems</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1971</b>) [poetry: coll: hb/Gary Gore]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Clark+Ashton+Smith+-+Poet&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Clark Ashton Smith – Poet</a></em> (Saddle River, New Jersey: Gerry de la Ree, <b>1975</b>) [poetry: coll: chap: edited by Gerry <a href="/entry/de_la_ree_gerry">de la Ree</a>: pb/Clark Ashton Smith]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Nostalgia+of+the+Unknown+The+Complete+Prose&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry</a></em> (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, <b>1988</b>) [poetry: coll: edited by Marc and Susan Michaud, Necronomicon: pb/Robert H Knox]</li> </ul> <p><b>nonfiction</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Planets+and+Dimensions+Collected+Essays&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Planets and Dimensions: Collected Essays</a></em> (Mirage Press, <b>1973</b>) [nonfiction: coll: chap: edited by Charles K Wolfe (brother of Gary K <a href="/entry/wolfe_gary_k">Wolfe</a>): pb/Joe Wehrle Jr]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Black+Book+of+Clark+Ashton+Smith&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1979</b>) [nonfiction: coll: hb/Andrew Smith]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Devil+Notebook+Collected+Epigrams+and&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Devil's Notebook: Collected Epigrams and Pensées</a></em> (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, <b>1990</b>) [nonfiction: coll: chap: edited by Donald Sidney-Fryer: pb/Bruce Timm]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Eccentric+Impractical+Devils+The+Letters+of&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Eccentric, Impractical Devils: The Letters of August Derleth and Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (New York: Hippocampus Press, <b>2020</b>) with August <a href="/entry/derleth_august">Derleth</a>: [nonfiction: coll: edited by S T <a href="/entry/joshi_s_t">Joshi</a> and David E Schultz: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dawnward+Spire+Lonely+Hill+The+Letters+of+H+P+&field-author=Smith+Clark+Ashton" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (New York: Hippocampus Press, <b>2021</b>) with H P <a href="/entry/lovecraft_h_p">Lovecraft</a> [nonfiction: coll: published in two volumes: edited by S T <a href="/entry/joshi_s_t">Joshi</a> and David E Schultz: pb/David C Verba]</li> </ul> <p><b>about the author</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li>Thomas G L <a href="/entry/cockcroft_t_g_l">Cockcroft</a>. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Tales+of+Clark+Ashton+Smith+A+Bibliography&field-author=Cockcroft+T+G+L" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Tales of Clark Ashton Smith: A Bibliography</a></em> (Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Thomas G L Cockcroft, <b>1951</b>) [bibliography: chap: pb/nonpictorial]</li> <li>L Sprague <a href="/entry/de_camp_l_sprague">de Camp</a>. "Sierran Shaman: Clark Ashton Smith" in <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Literary+Swordsmen+and+Sorcerers+The+Makers+of&field-author=De+Camp+L+Sprague" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy</a></em> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, <b>1976</b>) [nonfiction: coll: hb/Tim <a href="/entry/kirk_tim">Kirk</a>]</li> <li>Donald Sydney-Fryer. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Emperor+of+Dreams+A+Clark+Ashton+Smith&field-author=Donald+Sydney-Fryer" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography</a></em> (West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M Grant, <b>1978</b>) [bibliography: hb/Ned Dameron]</li> <li>Joseph <a href="/entry/bell_joseph">Bell</a>. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Books+of+Clark+Ashton+Smith&field-author=Bell+Joseph" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Books of Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (Toronto, Ontario: Soft Books, <b>1987</b>) [bibliography: chap: pb/uncredited portrait of Smith]</li> <li>Ronald Hilger, editor. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=One+Hundred+Years+of+Klarkash-Ton+The+Clark&field-author=Ronald+Hilger" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">One Hundred Years of Klarkash-Ton: The Clark Ashton Smith Centennial Conference</a></em> (no place given: Averon Press, <b>1996</b>) [anth: pb/Gahan <a href="/entry/wilson_gahan">Wilson</a>]</li> <li>Donald Sidney-Fryer. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Clark+Ashton+Smith+The+Sorcerer+Departs&field-author=Donald+Sidney-Fryer" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Clark Ashton Smith: The Sorcerer Departs</a></em> (West Hills, California: Tsathoggua Press, <b>1997</b>) [nonfiction/bibliography: chap: pb/Robert H Knox]</li> </ul> <p><b>further reading</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li>Edward J Stasheff, editor. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Averoigne+Legacy+Tribute+Tales+in+the+World&field-author=Edward+J+Stasheff" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Averoigne Legacy: Tribute Tales in the World of Clark Ashton Smith</a></em> (Champaign, Illinois: Pickman's Press, <b>2019</b>) [anth: pb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>links</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/articles/criticism/32/on-the-authorship-of-%27as-it-is-written%27">Doug Anderson's detailed look at Cass</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?819">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/gallery.php?link=smith_clark_ashton">Picture Gallery</a></li> </ul> <p><b>previous versions of this entry</b></p> <ul><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_clark_ashton' target='_blank'>Internet Archive</a></li></ul><br /><br /></article></div> <div class="sideBarsWrapper"> <div class="sideBarsColsWrapper clearfix"> <div class="column sideBar12 clearfix"> <div class="columnForm"><aside id="blogFeed" class="widget"> <div class="content STeditorial clearfix"> <h2>Recently visited entries<span style="background:url(/images/thingSFE2.png) !important"></span></h2><ul style='width: 50%; 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