Clark Ashton Smith

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 worthy term sui generis. Clark Ashton Smith--autodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre sculptor, and unmatched storyteller--simply wrote like no one else, before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smith's visionary brand of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention, terror, and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

Selected carefully by well-respected editor Robert Weinberg and with an introduction by award-winning author Gene Wolfe, The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith offers both readers and scholars a definitive collection of short fiction and short novels, by an overlooked master of fantasy, horror and science-fiction. Also available in a hardcover edition (0-8095-5665-0, $35.00, C: $42.50, 18.95).

The Best of Clark Ashton Smith

The Return of the Sorcerer

From the vampire-haunted alleyways of mediaeval Averoigne to the shining spires of dying Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith weaves his literary sorcery, transporting us to forgotten realms of necromancies and nightmares, lost worlds and other dimensions. In the enchanted regions of Hyperborea, Atlantis and Xiccarph, encounter malefic magic and demonic deeds beneath the last rays of a fading sun . . . For the first time ever, this volume encompasses Clark Ashton Smith's entire career as a writer. Smith virtually stopped writing stories in 1937, for reasons that have never been satisfactorily explained, but he left behind a unique legacy of fantasy fiction which is as imaginative and decadent today as when it was first published in the pulp magazines more than half a century ago.

The Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith

The Emperor of Dreams

The End Of The Story (Collected Fantasies)

The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 1

Hyperborea

The Maze of the Enchanter (The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith)

The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 4

The Door To Saturn (Collected Fantasies)

The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 2

A Vintage From Atlantis

The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 3

These 30 stories represent the nightmarish world of the master of horror.

Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith

A Rendezvous in Averoigne

Hashish Eater

The Door to Saturn: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 2 (Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smit)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Charles Dickens

Robert E. Howard

Virginia Woolf

Robert Louis Stevenson

Henry James

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

H. G. Wells

Lafcadio Hearn

H. P. Lovecraft

Aleister Crowley

Algernon Blackwood

F. Marion Crawford

Rudyard Kipling

Edith Wharton

E. F. Benson

O. Henry

Walter Scott

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Oscar Wilde

Guy de Maupassant

Wilkie Collins

Willa Cather

Bram Stoker

Anatole France

W. W. Jacobs

Nathaniel Hawthorne

John Buchan

Margaret Oliphant

Edith Nesbit

Marjorie Bowen

Edward Lucas White

Elizabeth Gaskell

Oliver Onions

M. R. James

Arthur Machen

William Hope Hodgson

Robert W. Chambers

Nikolai Gogol

Ambrose Bierce

M. P. Shiel

Mark Twain

Edgar Allan Poe

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

L. P. Hartley

Washington Irving

Saki

Lord Dunsany

Leonid Andreyev

Amelia B. Edwards

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Richard Connell

Vernon Lee

Rebecca Harding Davis

W. F. Harvey

Robert Hichens

Walter De La Mare

Violet Hunt

John Metcalfe

A. M. Burrage

Cynthia Asquith

Myla Jo Closser

Vincent O’Sullivan

H. Russell Wakefield

Franz Kafka

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be aware that this book includes a big amount of stories that appear for the first time in digital print.

The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories (KathartikaTM Classics)

The first of five volumes collecting the complete stories of renowned “weird fiction” author Clark Ashton Smith. “None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer.” —H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape “weird fiction” in the early twentieth century, alongside contemporaries H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, drawing upon his background in poetry to convey an unparalleled richness of imagination and expression in his stories of the bizarre and fantastical. The Collected Fantasies series presents all of Smith’s fiction chronologically. Authorized by the author’s estate and endorsed by Arkham House, the stories in this series are accompanied by detailed background notes from editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, who in preparation for this collection meticulously compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s own notes and letters. Their efforts have resulted in the most definitive and complete collection of the author’s work to date. The End of the Story is the first of five volumes collecting all of Clark Ashton Smith’s tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. It includes all of his stories from “The Abominations of Yondo” (1925) to “A Voyage to Sfanomoë” (1930) and an introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

The Collected Fantasies

The End of the Story

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 worthy term sui generis. Clark Ashton Smith—autodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre sculptor, and unmatched storyteller—simply wrote like no one else, before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smith’s visionary brand of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention, terror, and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Ubbo-Sathla

A collection of a juvenile works: a novella, poems, short stories, and fragments.

The Sword of Zagan and Other Writings

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

Jason Van Hollander

The Adventures of Captain Volmar

Red World of Polaris

Xiccarph

It was quite impossible for him to believe that Ilalotha had died from a fatal passion: since, in his experience, passion was never fatal.

The Death of Ilalotha

Clark Ashton Smith

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