Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961)
Author of The End of the Story
About the Author
Series
Works by Clark Ashton Smith
The Maze of the Enchanter (The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 4) (v. 4) (2008) 205 copies
The Last Hieroglyph (The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 5) (v. 5) (2009) 180 copies
The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 2: The Wine of Summer (The Complete Poetry and Translations of Clark Ashton… (2008) 33 copies
The Ultimate Weird Tales Collection - 133 stories - Clark Ashton Smith (Trilogus Classics) (2011) 25 copies
The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith (2005) 21 copies
Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith (Contributions to the Study of Science… (1989) 21 copies
In the Realms of Mystery and Wonder: The Prose Poems and Artwork of Clark Ashton Smith (2017) 14 copies
The Devil's Notebook: Collected Epigrams and Pensees of Clark Ashton Smith (Starmont Popular Culture Series) (1990) 8 copies
Grotesques and fantastiques: A selection of previously unpublished drawings and poems (1973) 8 copies
A Night in Malnéant [short story] 7 copies
The Holiness of Azédarac 7 copies
Avatars of Wizardry: Poetry Inspired by George Sterling's "A Wine of Wizardry" and Clark Ashton Smith's "The… (2012) 6 copies
A Prophecy of Monsters 6 copies
The Disinterment Of Venus 5 copies
Thirteen Phantasms 5 copies
Monsters In The Night 4 copies
Sadastor [poem] 4 copies
The Venus of Azombeii 4 copies
A Voyage To Sfanomoë [short story] 4 copies
The Uncharted Isle 4 copies
The Supernumerary Corpse 3 copies
The Immeasurable Horror 3 copies
A Star-Change 3 copies
Poseidonis Cycle I 3 copies
Klarkash-Ton and Monstro Ligriv 3 copies
Beyond Time and Space 3 copies
The Malay Krise 3 copies
The End of the Story [short story] 3 copies
The Necromantic Tale 3 copies
The Primal City [short story] 3 copies
The Second interment 3 copies
To Worlds Unknown: The Letters of Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei, Howard Wandrei, and R. H. Barlow (2023) 3 copies
Master of the Asteroid [short story] 3 copies
Schizoid Creator 3 copies
The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake 3 copies
The Dimension of Chance 2 copies
The Flirt 2 copies
The Expert Lover 2 copies
The Dart of Rasasfa 2 copies
Afterwards 2 copies
Checkmate 2 copies
GENIUS LOCI: The Willow 2 copies
Double Cosmos 2 copies
From the Crypts of Memory 2 copies
A Copy of Burns 2 copies
The Raja and the Tiger 2 copies
The Parrot 2 copies
The Letter from Mohaun Los 2 copies
Something New 2 copies
The Justice of the Elephant 2 copies
The Face By The River 2 copies
The Mahout 2 copies
The Mandrakes 2 copies
Crypt of Cthulhu #27 Untold Tales 2 copies
Nemesis of the Unfinished 2 copies
The Perfect Woman 2 copies
Strange Shadows [short story] 2 copies
Klarkash-Ton Cycle: The Lovecraftian Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) 2 copies
Seer of the cycles 2 copies
A Platonic Entanglement 2 copies
The Metamorphosis Of The World 2 copies
Beyond the Singing Flame 2 copies
Nero and Other Poems 2 copies
To the Daemon [poem] 2 copies
The God of the Asteroid 2 copies
December 1 copy
Averoigne (Broadside) 1 copy
魔術師の帝国《1 ゾシーク篇》 (ナイトランド叢書) 1 copy
The potion of dreams 1 copy
A song from hell 1 copy
The titans in Tartarus 1 copy
Wonder Stories, August 1932 1 copy
魔術師の帝国《3 アヴェロワーニュ篇》 1 copy
Inferno 1 copy
La mort d'Ilalotha 1 copy
Metà A metà B — Author — 1 copy
Third Rail #1 1 copy
The Brahmin's Wisdom 1 copy
The Bronze Image 1 copy
The Shah's Messenger 1 copy
Cuentos de Averoigne 1 copy
Kroniki Averoigne 1 copy
Quest of the Gazolba 1 copy
A Captivity In Serpens 1 copy
The Haunted Chamber 1 copy
The Complete Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Volumes 1-5 (The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith) (2006) 1 copy
The Kingdom Of The Worm 1 copy
Fakhreddin 1 copy
The Fulfilled Prophecy 1 copy
The Haunted Gong 1 copy
O Amor Atque Realitas! 1 copy
Bibliography 1 copy
The Dead Will Cuckold You 1 copy
House Of The Monoceros 1 copy
Dawn Of Discord 1 copy
The Infernal Star 1 copy
The Secret Of The Cairn 1 copy
The Red Turban 1 copy
The Animated Sword 1 copy
呪われし地(ロキ) 1 copy
Ombre dal Cosmo 1 copy
Clark Ashton Smith : Celui qui marchait parmi les étoiles: Volume 13 (Les Manuscrits d'Edward Derby) (2017) 1 copy
Flight into Super-Time 1 copy
The Metamorphosis of Earth 1 copy
The Eternal Word 1 copy
Zothique (broadside) 1 copy
The Emir's Captive 1 copy
The Light from the Pole 1 copy
The Light from Beyond 1 copy
In the Book of Vergama 1 copy
Зібрання творів 1 copy
Associated Works
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contributor — 264 copies
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contributor — 184 copies
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contributor — 92 copies
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Contributor — 88 copies
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Contributor — 78 copies
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Contributor — 44 copies
Weird Tales: A Facsimile of the World's Most Famous Fantasy Magazine: v. 1 (1978) — Contributor — 27 copies
The Lure of Atlantis: Strange Tales from the Sunken Continent: 40 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Contributor — 10 copies
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Contributor — 4 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 6, June 1938 — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 4, April 1933 — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 22 Number 1, July 1933 — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 25 Number 1, January 1935 — Contributor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 1, July 1937 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 1, July 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 4, April 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 26 Number 3, September 1935 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 2, February 1933 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 4, October 1932 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 26 Number 5, November 1935 — Contributor — 2 copies
Wonder Stories, June 1932 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 24 Number 2, August 1934 — Author — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 5, November 1932 — Contributor — 2 copies
Magazine of Horror Vol.6 No.3, Summer 1970, Whole Number 33 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 3, September 1938 — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 22 Number 5, November 1933 — Contributor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 21 Number 3, March 1933 — Contributor — 1 copy
Fantasy Fiction - November 1953 - Vol. 1, No. 4 — Contributor — 1 copy
A Day in the Hills a Poetical Competition... — Contributor — 1 copy
Donde Duermas, Eldorado? Y Otros Poemas — some editions — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 3, September 1937 — Contributor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 43 Number 6, September 1951 — Author — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Smith, Clark Ashton
- Legal name
- Smith, Clark Ashton
- Other names
- Herrigo, Clerigo
Gaylord, Timeus
Gallardo, Clerigo
des Laurieres, Christophe
Smith, C. Ashton - Birthdate
- 1893-01-13
- Date of death
- 1961-08-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Long Valley, California, USA
- Place of death
- Pacific Grove, California, USA
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Places of residence
- Auburn, California, USA
Pacific Grove, California, USA - Education
- Long Valley School, California, USA
self taught - Occupations
- sculptor
painter
poet
short story writer
fantasy writer - Relationships
- Carol Dorman Jones (wife)
- Agent
- CASiana Enterprises
- Short biography
- Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures".
Smith was one of "the big three of Weird Tales, with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", but some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. The fantasy critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. His work is marked by an extraordinarily rich and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor.
Of his writing style, Smith stated: "My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation."
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THE DEEP ONES: "The Last Hieroglyph" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (August 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Charnel God" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (October 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "A Vintage from Atlantis" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (September 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Planet of the Dead" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (February 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "Monsters in the Night" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (December 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "A Night in Malnéant" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (July 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Colossus of Ylourgne" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (February 2021)
Did Clark Ashton Smith read Tolkien? in Council of Elrond (March 2020)
THE DEEP ONES: "A Voyage to Sfanomoë" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (April 2019)
Favorite Clark Ashton Smith Story in Weird Fiction (June 2016)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Invisible City" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (May 2015)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Disinterment of Venus" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (November 2014)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Holiness of Azéderac" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (June 2014)
CAS In Penguin Classics! in The Weird Tradition (May 2014)
THE DEEP ONES: "Genius Loci" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (November 2013)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Coming of the White Worm" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (September 2013)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Isle of the Torturers" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (February 2013)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Empire of the Necromancers" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (March 2012)
THE DEEP ONES: "Necromancy in Naat" by Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (February 2012)
Clark Ashton Smith in The Weird Tradition (December 2011)
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- Works
- 359
- Also by
- 159
- Members
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- Popularity
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- Rating
- 3.8
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- ISBNs
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- Favorited
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