- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Night Shade Books (24 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1597800287
- ISBN-13: 978-1597800280
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 906,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work. This first volume of the series, brings together 25 of his fantasy stories, written between 1925 and 1930, including such classics as "The Abominations of Yondo," "The Monster of the Prophecy," "The Last Incantation" and the title story.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This book is volume 1 of a 5 volume collection of the complete weird tales of Clark Ashton Smith. Its a great compilation of work, re-edited to create the author's preferred version of the text. There are endnotes in relation to the stories setting out commentary and alternate versions.
All the tales are short stories, from just a few pages long to the more usual 30-odd page length. Some are Averoigne tales, most are not, all are superb. The collection covers all of what would today be called science fiction - even "hard" science fiction - fantasy, and horror.
Its not a cheap book, but it is beautifully presented and the work of a master.
All the tales are short stories, from just a few pages long to the more usual 30-odd page length. Some are Averoigne tales, most are not, all are superb. The collection covers all of what would today be called science fiction - even "hard" science fiction - fantasy, and horror.
Its not a cheap book, but it is beautifully presented and the work of a master.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Indispensable: Smith's fantasies restored to their full splendor
15 Aug 2007
Format:Hardcover
As established here and reinforced by the second volume, all five books in this series are essential to anyone interested in Smith's work and literate fantasy as a whole. Connors and Hilger have followed earlier textual studies by Donald Sidney-Fryer, Steve Behrends, and others with extensive studies of their own to restore as much of the glory to Smith's texts as is currently possible - and what glory! Smith is one of the few fantasists capable not only of creating multiple fantasy cultures, but with investing each of those worlds with its own distinct atmosphere, tone, and use of language. Many earlier versions of these texts toned down the richness, eroticism, and grotesquerie of these stories in order to appeal to what Smith's editors deemed was acceptable to the lowest-common-denominator among its readership. Scores of deletions, simplifications, bowdlerizations, and other alterations which have served to remove the sheen from these works have here been corrected through painstaking attention to all available manuscripts and correpondence. Here, at long last, is Smith in all his mordant, coruscating splendor. If one considers all of this, along with intelligent introductory material; alternate endings; unpedantic notes to each story detailing its composition, publication history, and its place within the larger context of Smith's work; as well as Jason Van Hollander's inspired integration of Smith and his sculptures into the macabre and affectionate cover art; Night Shade and these editors have presented to all lovers of fantasy an edition of the master's prose fiction which will serve as the benchmark for many years to come.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Smith at last
19 April 2007
Format:Hardcover
What happened to Lovecraft with S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, or to Robert E. Howard with Patrice Louinet, has just happened to Clark Ashton Smith. Two long devoted scholars, Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, have spent years editing this definitive edition of the collected tales and short stories (some of them being in fact extended prose poems of an incredibly bewitching quality as the CAS scholar Donald Sidney-Fryer has often pointed out) of Clark Ashton Smith. This is what any serious CAS fan has been waiting for.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Reprint
14 Mar 2011
Format:Hardcover
Resellers on the secondhand market are currently trying to get outrages prices for this out-of-print book. According to editor Scott Connors this book will see a reprint soon so do not throw your money away folks. Keeps your eye out for the reprint so this time you can get a copy before the scumbag resellers buy them all up.
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