Clark Ashton Smith bibliography
Appearance
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The following is a list of works by Clark Ashton Smith.
Short fiction
[edit]Title | Date published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Fictional setting | Notes | Online versions |
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The Abominations of Yondo | Apr 1926 | Overland Monthly (Vol 84, #4) | The Abominations of Yondo | [1] | ||
An Adventure in Futurity | Apr 1931 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | [2] | ||
The Amazing Planet | Summer 1931 | Wonder Stories Quarterly (Summer) | Other Dimensions | The Alcyone | also titled "A Captivity in Serpens" | |
The Beast of Averoigne | May 1933 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Averoigne | abridged version original published version | |
Beyond the Singing Flame | Nov 1931 | Wonder Stories | The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: A Vintage from Atlantis | sequel to The City of the Singing Flame, later merged with it | ||
The Black Abbot of Puthuum | Mar 1936 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | [3] | |
The Chain of Aforgomon | Dec 1935 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | [4] | ||
The Charnel God | Mar 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | [5] | |
Checkmate | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1930 | [6] | |
The City of the Singing Flame | Jul 1931 | Wonder Stories | Out of Space and Time | [7] | ||
The Colossus of Ylourgne | Jun 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Averoigne | [8] | |
The Coming of the White Worm | Apr 1941 | Stirring Science Stories | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | written in 1933 | [9] abridged version |
A Copy of Burns | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1930 | [10] | |
The Dark Age | Apr 1938 | Thrilling Wonder Stories[2] | The Abominations of Yondo | [11] | ||
The Dark Eidolon | Jan 1935 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Zothique | [12] | |
The Dart of Rasasfa | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1961 | [13] | |
The Death of Ilalotha | Sep 1937 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Zothique | [14] | |
The Death of Malygris | Apr 1934 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Poseidonis | [15] | |
The Demon of the Flower | Dec 1933 | Astounding Stories | Lost Worlds | [16] | ||
The Devotee of Evil | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | The Abominations of Yondo | [17] unpublished synopsis | ||
The Dimension of Chance | Nov 1932 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | [18] | ||
The Disinterment of Venus | Jul 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Averoigne | [19] unpublished synopsis | |
The Door to Saturn | Jan 1932 | Strange Tales | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | [20] | |
Double Cosmos | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1934-1940 | [21] | |
The Double Shadow | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Out of Space and Time | Poseidonis | [22] unpublished synopsis | |
The Dweller in the Gulf | Mar 1933 | Wonder Stories | The Abominations of Yondo | Aihai (Mars) | [23] | |
The Empire of the Necromancers | Sep 1932 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | [24] | |
The Enchantress of Sylaire | Jul 1941 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Averoigne | [25] | |
The End of the Story | May 1930 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Averoigne | [26] | |
The Epiphany of Death | Jul 1934 | The Fantasy Fan[3] | The Abominations of Yondo | [27] | ||
The Eternal World | Mar 1932 | Wonder Stories[4] | Genius Loci and Other Tales | [28] | ||
The Expert Lover | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1925 | [29] | |
The Face by the River | Mar 2004 | Lost Worlds: The Journal of Clark Ashton Smith Studies #1 | The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Door To Saturn | written in 1930 | ||
The Flirt | Mar 1923 | Live Stories (vol 36) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction | [30] | |
The Flower-Women | May 1935 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Xiccarph | [31] | |
The Garden of Adompha | Apr 1938 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | [32] | |
Genius Loci | Jun 1933 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | [33] | ||
The Ghoul | Jan 1934 | The Fantasy Fan | Other Dimensions | [34] | ||
A Good Embalmer | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1931 | [35] | |
The Gorgon | Apr 1932 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | [36] | ||
The Great God Awto | Feb 1940 | Thrilling Wonder Stories | Tales of Science and Sorcery | [37] | ||
The Holiness of Azédarac | Nov 1933 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Averoigne | [38] | |
The Hunters from Beyond | Oct 1932 | Strange Tales | Lost Worlds | [39] | ||
The Ice-Demon | Apr 1933 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Hyperborea | [40] | |
The Immeasurable Horror | Sep 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | [41] | ||
The Immortals of Mercury | 1932 | Science Fiction Series (#16) | Tales of Science and Sorcery | [42] | ||
The Invisible City | Jun 1932 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | [43] | ||
The Isle of the Torturers | Mar 1933 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | [44] | |
The Justice of the Elephant | Fall 1931 | Oriental Stories (Fall) | Other Dimensions | [45] | ||
The Kiss of Zoraida | Jul 1933 | The Magic Carpet | Other Dimensions | [46] | ||
The Last Hieroglyph | Apr 1935 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Zothique | [47] | |
The Last Incantation | Jun 1930 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Poseidonis | [48] | |
The Letter from Mohaun Los | Aug 1932 | Wonder Stories | Lost Worlds | also titled "Flight into Super-Time" | [49] | |
The Light from Beyond | Apr 1933 | Wonder Stories | Lost Worlds | also titled "The Secret of the Cairn" | [50] | |
The Maker of Gargoyles | Aug 1932 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Averoigne | [51] | |
The Mandrakes | Feb 1933 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | Averoigne | [52] | |
Marooned in Andromeda | Oct 1930 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | The Alcyone | [53] | |
Master of the Asteroid | Oct 1932 | Wonder Stories | Tales of Science and Sorcery | also titled "The God of the Asteroid" | [54] | |
The Master of the Crabs | Mar 1948 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Zothique | [55] | |
The Maze of the Enchanter | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Lost Worlds | Xiccarph | alternate version published in Weird Tales Oct 1938 as "The Maze of Maâl Dweb" | [56] [57] |
The Metamorphosis of Earth | Sep 1951 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | written in 1929 | [58] | |
The Monster of the Prophecy | Jan 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | also titled "A Prophecy of Monsters" | [59] | |
Monsters in the Night | Oct 1954 | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | Other Dimensions | [60] | ||
Morthylla | May 1953 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Zothique | [61] | |
Mother of Toads | Jul 1938 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Averoigne | [62] original published version | |
Murder in the Fourth Dimension | Oct 1930 | Amazing Detective Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | [63] | ||
The Nameless Offspring | Summer 1932 | The Magazine of Horror (#33) | The Abominations of Yondo | [64] | ||
Necromancy in Naat | Jul 1936 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | [65] | |
The Necromantic Tale | Jan 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | [66] | ||
Nemesis of the Unfinished | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1947 | [67] | |
A Night in Malnéant | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Out of Space and Time | Averoigne | [68] | |
The Ninth Skeleton | Sep 1928 | Weird Tales[5] | Genius Loci and Other Tales | [69] | ||
An Offering to the Moon | Sep 1953 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | Lemuria | written in 1930 | [70] |
The Parrot | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1930 | [71] | |
The Perfect Woman | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1923 | [72] | |
The Phantoms of the Fire | Sep 1930 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | [73] | ||
Phoenix | 1954 | Time to Come (Farrar, Straus & Young) | Other Dimensions | [74] | ||
The Planet of the Dead | Mar 1932 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | also titled "The Doom of Antarion" | [75] | |
A Platonic Entanglement | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | non-fantastic fiction, written in 1923 | [76] | |
The Plutonian Drug | Sep 1934 | Amazing Stories | Lost Worlds | [77] | ||
The Primal City | Nov 1934 | The Fantasy Fan[6] | Genius Loci and Other Tales | [78] | ||
The Red World of Polaris | 2003 | Red World of Polaris | The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Door To Saturn | The Alcyone | written in 1930 | [79] |
A Rendezvous in Averoigne | Apr/May 1931 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Averoigne | [80] | |
The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake | Oct 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | [81] | ||
The Return of the Sorcerer | Sep 1931 | Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror | Out of Space and Time | was the basis for Rod Serling's Night Gallery 29, (1972) | [82] variant ending | |
The Root of Ampoi | Spring 1949 | The Arkham Sampler[7] | Tales of Science and Sorcery | written in 1930 | [83] | |
Sadastor | Jul 1930 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | [84] | ||
The Satyr | Jul 1931 | La Paree Stories | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Averoigne | [85] alternative ending | |
Schizoid Creator | Nov 1953 | Fantasy Fiction | Tales of Science and Sorcery | [86] | ||
The Second Interment | Jan 1933 | Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror | Out of Space and Time | [87] | ||
The Seed from the Sepulchre | Oct 1933 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | [88] | ||
Seedling of Mars | Fall 1931 | Wonder Stories Quarterly (Fall) V3 #1 | Tales of Science and Sorcery | [89] | ||
The Seven Geases | Oct 1934 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | note: a geis or geas is a curse in Celtic mythology | [90] |
Something New | Aug 1924 | 10 Story Book (V23 #6) | Other Dimensions | non-fantastic fiction | [91] | |
A Star-Change | May 1933 | Wonder Stories | Genius Loci and Other Tales | [92] | ||
Strange Shadows | Nov 1985 | The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (11) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | three drafts exist, the third with the title "I Am Your Shadow", written in 1938-1941 | [93] | |
The Supernumerary Corpse | Nov 1932 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | [94] synopsis | ||
Symposium of the Gorgon | Oct 1958 | Fantastic Universe Science Fiction (V10 #4) | Tales of Science and Sorcery | [95] | ||
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros | Nov 1931 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | [96] | |
The Tale of Sir John Maundeville | Oct 1933 | The Fantasy Fan | Other Dimensions | also titled "The Kingdom of the Worm" | [97] | |
The Testament of Athammaus | Oct 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Hyperborea | [98] unpublished synopsis | |
The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles | Mar 1958 | Saturn Science Fiction and Fantasy (V1 #5) | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Hyperborea | [99] | |
The Third Episode of Vathek | Summer 1937 | Leaves (Summer) | The Abominations of Yondo | a fragment by William Beckford completed by Smith | [100] | |
Thirteen Phantasms | Mar 1936 | Fantasy Magazine | Other Dimensions | written in 1929 | [101] | |
Told in the Desert | 1964 | Over the Edge : Stories to Freeze Your Blood | Other Dimensions | written in 1930 | [102] | |
The Tomb-Spawn | May 1934 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Zothique | [103] | |
The Treader of the Dust | Aug 1935 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | [104] | ||
Ubbo-Sathla | Jul 1933 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Hyperborea | see Clark Ashton Smith deities | [105] unpublished synopsis |
The Uncharted Isle | Nov 1930 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Lemuria | [106] | |
The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis | May 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Aihai (Mars) | [107] abridged version unpublished synopsis | |
The Venus of Azombeii | Jun 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | [108] | ||
A Vintage from Atlantis | Sep 1933 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Poseidonis | [109] unpublished synopsis | |
The Voyage of King Euvoran | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | The Abominations of Yondo | Zothique | alternate version published in Weird Tales Sep 1947 as "The Quest of the Gazolba" | [110] [111] |
A Voyage to Sfanomoë | Aug 1931 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Poseidonis | [112] | |
Vulthoom | Sep 1935 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Aihai (Mars) | also exists as a synopsis. see Clark Ashton Smith deities. | [113] synopsis version |
The Weaver in the Vault | Jan 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | [114] | |
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan | Jun 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Hyperborea | also exists as a synopsis | [115] synopsis version |
The White Sybil | 1935 | The White Sybil | The Abominations of Yondo | Hyperborea | [116] | |
The Willow Landscape | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Genius Loci and Other Tales | [117] | ||
The Witchcraft of Ulua | Feb 1934 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Zothique | [118] | |
Xeethra | Dec 1934 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | [119] |
Fragments
[edit]Title | Date published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Fictional setting | Notes | Online versions |
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Across the Time-Stream | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis for what would become "The Eternal World" | [120] | |
The After-Men | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [121] | |
The Arm from the Fig-Tree | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [122] | |
Ascharia | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and a fragment | [123] | |
The Atmospheric Entity | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [124] | |
Between Two Worlds | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [125] | |
Beyond the Rose-Arbor | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [126] | |
A Bottle On the Orinoco | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [127] | |
The Burial-Place of the Unknown | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [128] | |
The Cairn | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [129] | |
Chincharrero | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [130] | |
The Conquest of Mercury | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [131] | |
The Cosmic Sequel | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [132] | |
The Crabs of Iribos | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [133] | |
The Cypress | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [134] | |
Dead Assassins | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [135] | |
The Demon From Alphard | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [136] | |
The Destination of Gideon Balcoth | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [137] | |
Djinn without A Bottle | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [138] | |
The Dome in the Ice | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [139] | |
The Doom of Azédarac | 1979 | The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a fragment | [140] | |
The Double Dream | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [141] | |
The Eggs from Saturn | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [142] | |
The Elder Manor | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [143] | |
The Embassy to Tiirath | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [144] | |
The Entity of the Sands | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [145] | |
Eviction by Night | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [146] | |
An Excursion in Time | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [147] | |
The Feet of Sidaiva | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Zothique | a one-sentence plot synopsis | [148] |
From A Lost World | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [149] | |
The Galley from Atlantis | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [150] | |
The Gargoyle of Vyones | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a synopsis | [151] |
The Ghoul from Mercury | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [152] | |
A Gift from the Beloved | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [153] | |
The God of the Asteroid | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [154] | |
Gossip | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [155] | |
Hecate | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [156] | |
The House of Haon-Dor | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Hyperborea | a fragment, written in 1933 | [157] |
The Hyperborean City | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Hyperborea | a synopsis | [158] |
I Am A Witch | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [159] | |
In A Hashish-Dream | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [160] | |
In the Book of Vergama | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [161] | |
The Infernal Star | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [162] | |
The Inverse Avatar | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [163] | |
The Invisible Devourer | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [164] | |
The Invisible Satellite | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [165] | |
The Lord of Lunacy | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [166] | |
The Lunar Brain | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [167] | |
The Lunar Path | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [168] | |
Maker of Prodigies | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [169] | |
Mandor's Enemy | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Zothique | a fragment | [170] |
The Master of Destruction | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment and a synopsis | [171] | |
The Mechanical Murder | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [172] | |
Men of the Macrocosm | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [173] | |
The Menace of the Dust | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [174] | |
The Minotaur's Brother | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [175] | |
A Misadventure of Don Juan | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [176] | |
Mnemoka | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [177] | |
The Moon-Spectre | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [178] | |
The Moraine | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [179] | |
The Mummy-Case of Hammen-Tha | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [180] | |
The Music of Death | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and a fragment | [181] | |
The Mysterious Poison | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [182] | |
Neria | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [183] | |
The Ocean-World of Alioth | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | The Alcyone | a synopsis and a fragment | [184] |
Offspring of the Grave | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [185] | |
The Oracle of Sadoqua | 1979 | The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a fragment | [186] | |
The Other Entity | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [187] | |
The Pilgrim of Eternity | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [188] | |
The Point of the Jest | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [189] | |
Poseidon | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [190] | |
Prisoners of the Black Dimension | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [191] | |
The Protean People | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [192] | |
Queen of the Sabbat | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a synopsis | [193] |
The Re-Union | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a two-sentence synopsis | [194] | |
The Rebirth of the Flame | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [195] | |
The River of Mystery | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [196] | |
The Scarab | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [197] | |
Shapes of Adamant | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Zothique | a fragment | [198] |
Slaves of the Black Pillar | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and fragment, also titled "The Drug from Algol" | [199] | |
A Sojourn in Mercury | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | [200] | |
The Sorceress of Averoigne | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a fragment, also titled "The Tower of Istarelle" | [201] |
The Spectral Tarn | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [202] | |
A Tale of Gnydron | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [203] | |
The Thing from the Antarctic | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [204] | |
The Transformation of Athanor | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [205] | |
The Trilithon | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [206] | |
Unquiet Boundary | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [207] | |
The Vapor from the Void | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [208] | |
The Vestibule of the Past | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [209] | |
Vizaphmal in Ophiuchus | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [210] | |
The Werewolf of Averoigne | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a synopsis | [211] |
Wingless Phoenix | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | [212] | |
The World-Maker | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [213] | |
The Youngest Vampire | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | [214] |
Collections
[edit]- The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies (Auburn Journal, 1933)
- Out of Space and Time (Arkham House, 1942)
- Lost Worlds (Arkham House, 1944)
- Genius Loci and Other Tales (Arkham House, 1948)
- The Abominations of Yondo (Arkham House, 1960)
- Tales of Science and Sorcery (Arkham House, 1964)
- Other Dimensions (Arkham House, 1970)
- Zothique (Ballantine Books, 1970)
- Hyperborea (Ballantine Books, 1971)
- Xiccarph (Ballantine Books, 1972)
- Poseidonis (Ballantine Books, 1973)
- A Rendezvous in Averoigne (Arkham House, 1988)
- Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays (Greenwood Press, 1989)
- The Emperor of Dreams (Gollancz, 2002)
- The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings (Hippocampus Press, 2004)
- The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 1: The End of the Story (Night Shade Books, 2006)
- The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 2: The Door to Saturn (Night Shade Books, 2007)
- The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 3: A Vintage from Atlantis (Night Shade Books, 2007)
- The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 4: The Door to Saturn (Night Shade Books, 2008)
- The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 5: The Door to Saturn (Night Shade Books, 2009)
- The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith (Night Shade Books, 2011)
Prose poems
[edit]Title | Date written/published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Fictional setting | First line | Notes | Online versions |
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The Abomination of Desolation | Dec 18, 1929 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The desert of Soom is said to lie at the world's unchartable extreme, between the lands that are little known and those that are scarcely… | also titled "The Desolation of Soom" and "The Horror of Soom" | [215] | |
The Black Lake | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In a land where weirdness and mystery had strongly leagued themselves with eternal desolation, the lake was out-poured at an undiscoverable date of elder aeons,… | [216] | ||
The Caravan (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | My dreams are like a caravan that departed long ago, with tumult of intrepid banners and spears, and the clamour of bugles and brave, adventurous… | [217] | ||
Chinoiserie | 1960 | The Abominations of Yondo (1960) | The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Ling Yang, the poet, sits all day in his hut among the willows by the river-side, and dreams of the Lady Moy. Spring and the… | [218] | ||
The City of Destruction | 1948 | Arkham Sampler (Winter) V1 #1, (1948) | Selected Poems, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The city is surrounded with ramparts like a mountain-range… | a prose version of "The City of Destruction", after Smith's unfinished poem of that name; a fragment | [219] | |
The Corpse and the Skeleton | Apr 15, 1915 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Scene: The catacombs of the ancient city of Oomal. A new corpse has been deposited alongside a skeleton, which, from its mouldiness and worm-picked appearance,… | [220] | ||
The Crystals (Clark Ashton Smith) | Jul 2, 1914 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Raptly as one who would divine the perilous eyes of Sleep, and the dreams and mysteries which lurk therein, I sought to fathom the gulf-enclosing… | [221] | ||
The Days (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1973 | Grotesques and Fantastiques: A Selection of Previously Unpublished Drawings and Poems (1973) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988), Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith (1989) | O Fairest, O dearest, to what shall I liken thy days? Methinks are as precious gems, as pearls and amethysts, which, from a broken string,… | [222] | ||
The Demon, the Angel, and Beauty | c. May 1913 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Of the Demon who standeth or walketh always with me at my left hand, I asked: Hast thou seen Beauty? Her that meseemeth was the… | [223] | ||
A Dream of Lethe | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In the quest of her whom I had lost, I came at length to the shores of Lethe, under the vault of an immense, empty,… | [224] | ||
Ennui (In) | Feb 26, 1918 | Selected Poems (1971) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In the alcove whose curtains are cloth-of-gold, and whose pillars are fluted sapphire, reclines the emperor Chan, on his couch of ebony set with opals… | [225] | ||
The Flower Devil | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In a basin of porphyry, at the summit of a pillar of serpentine, the thing has existed from primeval time, in the garden of the… | [226] | ||
The Forbidden Forest (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The child Natha lived with his father and mother in a little house not far from the verge of the great jungle. Every day he… | [227] | ||
From the Crypts of Memory | 1922 | Bohemia V2 #3, (Apr 1917), Ebony and Crystal, Auburn Journal (1922) | Out of Space and Time, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Aeons of aeons ago, in an epoch whose marvelous worlds have crumbled, and whose mighty suns are less than shadow, I dwelt in a star… | two versions | [228] [229] | |
The Frozen Waterfall | 1988 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | I returned on a winter day to the mountain stream, upon whose banks we roamed so long ago when the rich azaleas leaned above it… | [230] | ||
The Garden and the Tomb | Jun 9, 1915 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I know a garden of flowers-flowers lovely and marvellous and multiform as the orchids of far, exotic worlds-as the flowers of manifold petal, whose colours… | [231] | ||
The Image of Bronze and the Image of Iron | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In the temple of the city of Morm, which lies between the desert and the sea, are two images of thegod Amanon,- a bronze image… | unfinished | [232] | |
Images | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922), Auburn Journal, (19 Jul 1923) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Thy tears are not as mine: Thou weepest as a green fountain among palms and roses, with lightly falling drops that bedew the flowery turf.… | [233] | ||
In Cocaigne | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922), Auburn Journal, (19 Jul 1923) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | It was a windless afternoon of April, beneath skies that were tender as the smile of love, when we went forth, you and I, to… | [234] | ||
The Lake of Enchanted Silence | 1988 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | It lies with in a land that is only seen by the sun and the moon and the horizon-questing stars. The sky-wrestled mountains, like sentries… | [235] | ||
The Land of Fruitful Palms | 1988 and 1989 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | It is a land of fruitful palms and flowering myrtles, with winds that are gentle as the sighs of woman, and pearling fountains delicious as… | [236] untitled fragment | ||
The Litany of the Seven Kisses | Apr 13, 1921 | Ebony and Crystal (1922), Laughing Horse #6, (1923) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I kiss thy hands-thy hands. whose fingers are delicate and the pale as the petals of the white lotus. | [237] | ||
The Lotus and the Moon | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I stood with my beloved in the lotus pool, when the moon was round as the great ivory breast of a Titaness, and the flowers… | [238] | ||
The Memnons of the Night | Feb 1917 | Bohemia V2 #1, (1 Feb 1917), Ebony and Crystal, Auburn Journal (1922), Phantagraph V4 #2, (Dec 1935) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Ringed with a bronze horizon, which, at a point immensely remote, seems welded with the blue brilliance of a sky of steel, they oppose the… | [239] | ||
The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony | 1960 | The Abominations of Yondo (1960) | The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | From the nethermost profound of slumber, from a gulf beyond the sun and stars that illume the Lethean shoals and the vague lands of somnolent… | [240] | ||
The Mithridate | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The world has a thousand poisons, thin or potent, honey-like or nauseous, quick or languid, corrosive and deadly, or captious and deceptive and narcotic. There… | [241] | ||
The Mortuary | 1971 | The Mortuary, Roy A. Squires (1971) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | I sought the cloister of the dead, when, fallen athwart the funereal glooms of yew and cypress, the sunset wrought a phantom flush upon the… | [242] | ||
The Muse of Atlantis | 1973 | Poseidonis (1973) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Poseidonis | Will you not join me in Atlantis, where we will go down through streets of blue and yellow marble to the wharves of orichalch, and… | also titled "From a Letter" | [243] version "from a letter" |
The Muse of Hyperborea | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Hyperborea | Too far away is her wan and mortal face, and too remote are the snows of her lethal breast, for mine eyes to behold them… | [244] | |
Narcissus | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Splenetic, pale Narcissus, in the green dead depth of some rotting pool: thou seest thine image drown and re-emmerge, beneath the shifting iridescence of corruption,… | [245] | ||
Offering | March 12, 1928 | Grotesques and Fantastiques: A Selection of Previously Unpublished Drawings and Poems (1973) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Hast thou desired to love wherein the fervor of the mountain flames of autumn is mingled with all the tenderness of half-unfolded… | [246] | ||
The Osprey and the Shark | December 18, 1929 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | An osprey who had sighted a plump turbot glided to the surface of the waves; and at that very same moment a… | [247] | ||
The Passing of Aphrodite | Dec 1934 | The Fantasy Fan V2 #4, (Dec 1934), Acolyte (Summer) V1 #4, (1943) | The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In all the lands of Illarion, from mountain-valleys rimmed with unmelting snow, to the great cliffs of sand whose reflex darkens a sleepy, tepid sea,… | [248] | ||
The Peril That Lurks Among Ruins | 1945 | Acolyte (Winter) V1 #2, (1945) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Go not too often among ruins, said the Daemon in one of his... | two versions | [249] [250] | |
A Phantasy (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I have dreamt of an unknown land-a land remote in ulterior time, and alien space not ascertainable; the desert of a long-completed past, upon which… | [251] | ||
Preference | 1988 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | I would rather look upon thy face than upon the gardens of Atlantis, in the setting of a hyacinthine sun than necromancers have summoned.I would… | [252] | ||
The Princess Almeena | Feb 1920 | Smart Set V61 #1, (Feb 1920), Ebony and Crystal, Auburn Journal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | From her balcony of pearl, the princess Almeena, clad in a gown of irisated silk, with her long and sable locks unbound, gazes toward the… | [253] | ||
Remoteness | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | There are days when all the beauty of the world is dim and strange; when the sunlight about me seems to fall on a land… | [254] | ||
The Shadows (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Out of Space and Time, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | There were many shadows in the palace of Augusthes, About the silver throne that had blackened beneath the invisible passing of ages, they fell from… | [255] | ||
The Statue of Silence | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I saw a statue, carven I knew not of what substance, nor with what form or feature, because of the manifold draper of black which… | [256] | ||
The Sun and the Sepulchre | Jun 22 c.1914-15 | California Poets (1932) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I saw the declivous latter sunlight fall and glitter upon the sepulchre of one whose immomentous name was holden awhile from Oblivion by the deeply-trenched… | [257] | ||
To the Daemon | Dec 16, 1929 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Tell me many tales, O benign maleficent daemon, but tell me none that I have ever heard or have even dreamt of otherwise than obscurely… | [258] | ||
The Touch-Stone | Dec 18, 1929 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Nasiphra the philosopher had sought through many years and in many lands for the fabled touch-stone, which was said to reveal the true nature of… | [259] | ||
The Traveller (Clark Ashton Smith) | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Stranger, where goest thou, in the sad raiment of a pilgrim, with shattered sandals retaining the dustand mire of so many devious ways? With thy… | [260] | ||
Vignettes | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Surely, beyond the mountains there is peace-beyond the mountains that lie so blue and still at the world's extreme. Such ancient calm, such infinite quietude… | [261] |
Juvenilia
[edit]Title | Date published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Notes | Online versions |
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The Animated Sword | 2011 | The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith | The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith | written in 1905 | [262] |
The Black Diamonds | 2002 | The Black Diamonds | The Black Diamonds | novel, written in 1907 | [263] |
The Bronze Image | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | [264] | |
The Emerald Eye | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | [265] |
The Emir's Captive | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | [266] | |
Fakhreddin | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | [267] | |
The Fulfilled Prophecy | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | [268] | |
The Ghost of Mohammed Din | Nov 1910 | Overland Monthly | Other Dimensions | [269] | |
The Guardian of the Temple | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | [270] |
The Haunted Chamber | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | [271] | |
The Haunted Gong | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | [272] | |
The Mahout | Aug 1911 | The Black Cat (V16 #11) | Other Dimensions | [273] | |
The Malay Krise | Oct 1910 | Overland Monthly | Other Dimensions | also published as "The Malay Creese" | [274] [275] |
The Opal of Delhi | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | 2 fragments | fragment I fragment II |
Prince Alcouz and the Magician | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | [276] 2nd version | |
The Raja and the Tiger | Feb 1912 | The Black Cat (V17 #5) | Other Dimensions | [277] | |
The Red Turban | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | first published as a fragment, complete text published in The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith | [278] |
The Shah's Messenger | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | [279] | |
The Sword of Zagan | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | [280] | |
When the Earth Trembled | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | [281] |
The Yogi's Ring | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | [282] |
Plays
[edit]- The Dead will Cuckold You: A Drama in Six Acts (in verse). Written in 1951. First published in 1989. [283]
- The Fugitives: a fragment. Written on September 17, 1922. Published in 1989. [284]
- Venus And The Priest: a fragment. Published in 1989. [285]
Lyrics
[edit]- The Dream Bridge: Music by Henry Cowell, words by Clark Ashton Smith. Written c. 1920. [286]
- Impression: Music by Joseph W. Grant, words by Clark Ashton Smith. [287]
- White Death: Music by Henry Cowell, words by Clark Ashton Smith. Written in Sept 1915. [288]
Poetry
[edit]Poems (including translations)[10] by Clark Ashton Smith:
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Collections
[edit]- The Star-Treader and Other Poems (A.M. Robertson, 1912)
- Odes and Sonnets (The Book Club of California, 1918)
- Ebony and Crystal (Auburn Journal, 1922)
- Sandalwood (Auburn Journal, 1925)
- Nero and Other Poems (Futile Press, 1937)
- The Dark Chateau (Arkham House, 1951)
- Spells and Philtres (Arkham House, 1958)
- Poems in Prose (Arkham House, 1965)
- Selected Poems (Arkham House, 1971)
See also
[edit]- As It Is Written – a novel mistakenly republished under Smith's name
References
[edit]- ^ Titles, dates and media of initial publication for some works are based on the copyright notice in Lost Worlds (Bison Books edition, 2006, ISBN 0-8032-9351-8). For other works, this information is based on the bibliography established by www.eldritchdark.com or, as indicated by footnotes, by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) ISFDB bibliography.
- ^ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Titles, dates and media of initial publication for some works are based on the copyright notice in Lost Worlds (Bison Books edition, 2006, ISBN 0-8032-9351-8). For other works, this information is based on the bibliography established by www.eldritchdark.com or, as indicated by footnotes, by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) ISFDB bibliography.
- ^ Titles, dates and media of initial publication based on the bibliography established by www.eldritchdark.com.
- ^ Titles and dates based on the bibliography established by www.eldritchdark.com.