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"Incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures... Take one step across the threshold of his stories and you plunge into colour, sound, taste, smell and texture: into language."--Ray Bradbury "He had a monstrously vivid imagination, a keenly ironic sense of humor, and an uninhibited bent for the macabre. Weird-heroic fantasy is not a large genre, but Smith was a giant in this field."--L. Sprague de Camp
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An artist, poet, and prolific contributor to "Weird Tales", Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1967) was 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 print for the first time since 1971, "Out of Space and Time" showcases the many facets of Smith's unique prose that make him one of the greatest American writers of macabre and fantastic tales. Here are tales of Averoigne, tales belonging to the Cthulhu, stories of sheer horror, and one or two of sardonic comedy. Jeff VanderMeer provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition. Jeff VanderMeer is a two-time World Fantasy Award winner whose books of fiction and edited anthologies have been finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award and the International Horror Guild Award.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What really irritates me,as a C.A. Smith fan is that Out of Space and Time and Lost Worlds both were issued in two volumes,with different stories in each volume.I have Out of Space and Time vol.2 and Lost worlds vol.1.However none of these listing note which volumes these books are.Furthermore there is no way of contacting the sellers to rectify this situation.Lets hope someone from Amazon reads this and gets the information from the booksellars,so I don't have to purchase 3 or 4 Lost Worlds vol.1s before I finally get volume2!
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Table of contents
5 Aug 2009
Format:Paperback
OK, I confess I do not have this book. Even maniacs like me can't afford everything. What I am doing is reproducing the table of contents so potential buyers can compare and see how this collection will fit into their plans. I cannot vouch for the editorial scholarship compared to the Nightshade Books edition. I just gave it 5 stars because, heck, it's CAS!
CLARK ASHTON SMITH: MASTER OF FANTASY XV
OUT OF SPACE AND TIME
The End of the Story
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
A Night in Malneant
The City of the Singing Flame
The Uncharted Isle
JUDGMENTS AND DOOMS
The Second Interment
The Double Shadow
The Chain of Aforgomon
The Dark Eidolon
The Last Hieroglyph
Sadastor
The Death of Ilalotha
The Return of the Sorcerer
HYPERBOREAN GROTESQUES
The Testament of Athammaus
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
Ubbo-Sathla
INTERPLANETARIES
The Monster of the Prophecy
The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis
From the Crypts of Memory
The Shadows
For comparison, here are the contents of A Rendezvous in Averoigne from Arkham House. Of course all the weird tales should be available in the Nightshade Books edition.
The Holiness of Azédarac
The Colossus of Ylourgne
The End of the Story
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
The Last Incantation
The Death of Malygris
A Voyage to Sfanomoë
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
The Seven Geases
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
The Coming of the White Worm
The City of the Singing Flame
The Dweller in the Gulf ["Dweller in Martian Depths"]
The Chain of Aforgomon
Genius Loci
The Maze of Maal Dweb
The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis
The Uncharted Isle
The Planet of the Dead
Master of the Asteroid
The Empire of the Necromancers
The Charnel God
Xeethra
The Dark Eidolon
The Death of Ilalotha
The Last Hieroglyph
Necromancy in Naat
The Garden of Adompha
The Isle of the Torturers
Morthylla
CLARK ASHTON SMITH: MASTER OF FANTASY XV
OUT OF SPACE AND TIME
The End of the Story
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
A Night in Malneant
The City of the Singing Flame
The Uncharted Isle
JUDGMENTS AND DOOMS
The Second Interment
The Double Shadow
The Chain of Aforgomon
The Dark Eidolon
The Last Hieroglyph
Sadastor
The Death of Ilalotha
The Return of the Sorcerer
HYPERBOREAN GROTESQUES
The Testament of Athammaus
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
Ubbo-Sathla
INTERPLANETARIES
The Monster of the Prophecy
The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis
From the Crypts of Memory
The Shadows
For comparison, here are the contents of A Rendezvous in Averoigne from Arkham House. Of course all the weird tales should be available in the Nightshade Books edition.
The Holiness of Azédarac
The Colossus of Ylourgne
The End of the Story
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
The Last Incantation
The Death of Malygris
A Voyage to Sfanomoë
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
The Seven Geases
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
The Coming of the White Worm
The City of the Singing Flame
The Dweller in the Gulf ["Dweller in Martian Depths"]
The Chain of Aforgomon
Genius Loci
The Maze of Maal Dweb
The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis
The Uncharted Isle
The Planet of the Dead
Master of the Asteroid
The Empire of the Necromancers
The Charnel God
Xeethra
The Dark Eidolon
The Death of Ilalotha
The Last Hieroglyph
Necromancy in Naat
The Garden of Adompha
The Isle of the Torturers
Morthylla
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
"In the proper style, at the proper time..."
3 April 2010
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Pretty fantastic and glad to have read and learned of CAS. The book is overwhelming in its scope and the size of this man's imagination. He draws each world, each story, each person with incredible depth. An amazing introduction can be found here as well of unusual words. And I think there are few writer's I've ever read that actually put a smell of something awful, the thing you turn your eyes from if you can, that boiling in one's stomach so fully described as to be experienced. His forerunner stories are the sort that always catch my attention (Andre Norton wrote some of my favorites). The deep ideas behind the layers of worlds, the thin veil between them, the unimagined ages and civilizations before ours. The idea of rooms which "exhale a medley of half-forgotten superstitions", poets "regarded as no less anomalous than double-headed snakes or five legged calves", the "vertigo ineffable before the vastness and diuturnity of the cycles of being" - all seem to tell a bit of CAS himself. Where early imaginative books like those of Verne have tried my patience, I found CAS's work to be an impressive collection and a door opened to a early age in this genre, full of "eldritch terrors and forebodings that still murmur in [t]his brain."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A great collection of his work!
29 Nov 2011
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Clark Ashton Smith is by far my favorite writer these days and this is a great collection of his work! I have Out of Space and time on my end table next to H.P. Lovecraft's collection of Bloodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre... A perfect combo for that late nite read ;-)
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