Dweller in the Gulf; The Dark Age; The Third Episode of Vathek; Chinoiserie;
The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony; The Passing of Aphrodite.
Tales of Science and Sorcery. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1964. Contains: Master of the Asteroid; The Seed from the Sepulcher; The Root of Ampoi; The Immortals of
Mercury; Murder in the Fourth Dimension; Seedling of Mars; The Maker of Gar-
goyles; The Great God Awto; Mother of Toads; The Tomb-Spawn; Schizoid
Creator; Symposium of the Gorgon; The Theft of the Thirty-nine Girdles; Mor-
thylla. Contains memoir by E. Hoffmann Price.
Other Dimensions. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1970. Contains: Marooned in Andromeda; The Amazing Planet; An Adventure in Futurity; The Immeasurable
Horror; The Invisible City; The Dimension of Chance; The Metamorphosis of
Earth; Phoenix; The Necromantic Tale; The Venus of Azombeii; The Resur-
rection of the Rattlesnake; The Supernumerary Corpse; The Mandrakes; Thir-
teen Phantasms; An Offering to the Moon; Monsters in the Night; The Malay
Krise; The Ghost of Mohammed Din; The Mahout; The Raja and the Tiger;
Something New; The Justice of the Elephant; The Kiss of Zoraida; A Tale of
Sir John Maundeville; The Ghoul; Told in the Desert.
The Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith. Series editor, Steve Behrends. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press. Comprises: The Dweller in the Gulf (1987); The Monster of the Prophecy (1988); Mother of Toads (1987); The Vaults of Yoh-
Vombis (1988); The Witchcraft of Ulua (1988); Xeethra (1988).
A Rendezvous in Averoigne. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1988. Contains: The Sorcerer Departs (poem); The Holiness of Azédarac; The Colossus of Ylourgne; The End of the Story; A Rendevous in Av-
eroigne; 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 (re-
stored text); The Dweller in the Gulf; The Chain of Aforgomon; Genius Loci;
The Maze of Maâl 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.
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Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith. Ed. Steve Behrends with Donald Sidney-Fryer and Rah Hoffman. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Tales of Zothique. Ed. Will Murray with Steve Behrends. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1995. Contains: “Introduction” by Will Murray; The Empire of the Necromancers; The Isle of the Torturers; The Charnel God; The Dark
Eidolon; The Voyage of King Euvoran; The Weaver in the Vault; The Tomb-
Spawn; The Witchcraft of Ulua; Xeethra; In the Book of Vergama; The Last
Hieroglyph; Shapes of Adamant (fragment); Necromancy in Naat; The Black
Abbot of Puthuum; The Death of Ilalotha; The Garden of Adompha; Zothique
(poem); The Master of the Crabs; Mandor’s Enemy (fragment); Morthylla; The
Dead Will Cuckold You (play); “Postscript” by Will Murray.
The Book of Hyperborea. Ed. Will Murray. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1996. Contains: “Introduction” by Will Murray; The Tale of Satampra Zeiros; The Muse of Hyperborea (prose-poem); The Door to Saturn; The Testament
of Athammaus; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan; Ubbo-Sathla; The Ice-
Demon; The White Sybil; The House of Haon-Dor; The Coming of the White
Worm; The Seven Geases; Lament for Vixella (poem); The Theft of the Thirty-
nine Girdles; Appendix: The Coming of the White Worm (abridged); “Post-
script” by Will Murray.
The Black Diamonds. Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2002. A juvenile novel written c. 1907.
Red World of Polaris: The Adventures of Captain Volmar. Ed. Ronald S. Hilger and Scott Connors. San Francisco: Night Shade, 2003. Contains: “The Magellan of the Constellations: An Introduction” by Ronald S. Hilger and Scott Connors; Marooned in Andromeda; The Red World of Polaris; A Captivity in Serpens; The
Ocean-World of Alioth (fragment). Afterword by Donald Sidney-Fryer.
The Sword of Zagan and Other Writings. Ed. Dr. W. C. Farmer. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2004. Introduction by S. T. Joshi. A collection of mainly juvenile writings, including a 39,000-word novella, nine completed short stories, several fragments, and a number of poems written over Smith’s entire lifetime, all
taken from papers entrusted by Smith to his friend Dr. William C. Farmer, who
also provides an invaluable memoir.
Star Changes. Ed. Scott Connors and Ronald S. Hilger. Seattle: Darkside Press, 2005. Contains: “Introduction: The Non-Human Equation” by Scott Connors and Ronald S. Hilger; The Monster of the Prophecy; The Letter from Mohaun
Los; The Plutonian Drug; The Immortals of Mercury; The Eternal World; The
Demon of the Flower; A Star-Change; The Secret of the Cairn; The Vaults of
Yoh-Vombis; The Dweller in the Gulf; Vulthoom; Phoenix.
The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith. Edited by Scott Connors and Ronald S.
Hilger. San Francisco: Night Shade, 2006f. 5 vols.
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C. Nonfiction and Miscellany
The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1979. Also contains two memoirs by George Haas, “As I Remember Klarkash-Ton” (from
Chalker, 1963) and “Memories of Klarkash-Ton” (from Morris, August 1972).
The Devil’s Notebook: Collected Epigrams and Pensées of Clark Ashton Smith. Compiled by Donald Sidney-Fryer. Ed. Don Herron. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House,
1990.
Letters to H. P. Lovecraft. Ed. Steve Behrends. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1987.
Planets and Dimensions: Collected Essays of Clark Ashton Smith. Ed. Charles K. Wolfe.
Baltimore: Mirage Press, 1973.
Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith. Ed. David E. Schultz and Scott Connors. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 2003.
The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith. Ed.
S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2005. In-
cludes a letter about Smith by Ambrose Bierce as well as writings by Sterling
and Smith about each other.
II. Secondary Sources
In addition to articles cited in the notes, the following books and articles are useful to the student of Clark Ashton Smith (the most accessible source is usually cited).
Many of these pieces, as well as many stories, poems, and other works by Smith
may be found at www.eldritchdark.com, Boyd Pearson’s Website devoted to
Smith. Additional items may be found in Sidney-Fryer’s Emperor of Dreams.
Ambrose, Michael E. “The Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith: An Introduction.”
Dragonbane 1 (Spring 1978): 48–51. Brief but cogent general essay on Smith as a poet.
Ashley, Mike. “The Perils of Wonder: Clark Ashton Smith’s Experiences with
Wonder Stories.” Dark Eidolon No. 2 (July 1989): 2–8.
———, and Robert A. W. Lowndes. The Gernsback Days. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2004.
Behrends, Steve. “CAS and Diverse Hands.” Crypt of Cthulhu No. 26 (Hallowmas 1984): 30–31. Rpt. The Horror of It All. Ed. Robert M. Price. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont, 1990. 65–67.
———. Clark Ashton Smith. Starmont Reader’s Guide 49. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990. Only full-length study to date.
———. “Clark A
shton Smith: Cosmicist or Misanthrope?” Dark Eidolon No. 2
(July 1989): 12–14.
———, ed. Klarkash-Ton: The Journal of Smith Studies No. 1 (June 1988); as The Dark Eidolon: The Journal of Smith Studies No. 2 (July 1989) and No. 3 (Winter, 1993).
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Originally published by Robert M. Price’s Cryptic Publications, then by Ne-
cronomicon Press, this regrettably defunct journal provided a forum for both
new articles on Smith as well as a source for reprinting important material from the past.
Bell, Joseph, and Roy A. Squires. The Books of Clark Ashton Smith. Toronto: Soft Books, 1987. Updates Sidney-Fryer et al. (1978).
Brandenberger, Mary Ann. “Poetic Devices in ‘The Empire of the Necroman-
cers.’” Niekas No. 45 (1998): 87–89.
Chalker, Jack, ed. In Memoriam: Clark Ashton Smith. Baltimore: Anthem, 1963. Contains important articles and tributes by Fritz Leiber, Ethel Heiple, George Haas, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, L. Sprague de Camp, and others.
“Clark Ashton Smith.” In Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 43. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. pp. 416–25. Contains excerpts from essays and reviews by Love-
craft, Lin Carter, Benjamin De Casseres, Gahan Wilson, Harlan Ellison, Sam
Moskowitz, Charles K. Wolfe, and Steve Behrends.
“Clark Ashton Smith.” In Modern Fantasy Writers. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1995. pp. 151–64. Contains excerpts from works by Bierce,
Sterling, Donald Wandrei, Lovecraft, Francis T. Laney, Fritz Leiber, Jean
Marigny, Ray Bradbury, and others.
Cockcroft, T. G. “The Reader Speaks: Reaction to Clark Ashton Smith in the
Pulps.” Dark Eidolon No. 2 (July 1989): 15–20.
Connors, Scott. “An Arthur Machen Review of Clark Ashton Smith.” Faunus: The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen No. 6 (Autumn 2000): 31–38.
———. “Who Discovered Clark Ashton Smith?” Lost Worlds No. 1 (2004): 25–34.
———, and Arinn Dembo. “The Last Continent: An Exchange.” New York Review
of Science Fiction No. 157 (September 2001): 18–19.
———, ed. Lost Worlds: The Journal of Clark Ashton Smith Studies. New York: Seele-Brennt Publications. Nos. 1, 2 (2004); No. 3 (forthcoming). Picks up where
Klarkash-Ton/Dark Eidolon left off. Covers feature color reproductions of
Smith’s paintings.
de Camp, L. Sprague. “Sierra Shaman.” In Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1976. pp. 195–214.
Ellison, Harlan. “Out of Space and Time by Clark Ashton Smith.” In Horror: 100
Best Books. Ed. Stephen Jones and Kim Newman. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998. pp. 135–39.
Galpin, Alfred. “Echoes from Beyond Space.” United Amateur 24, No. 1 (January 1921): 3–4. Rpt. Letters to Alfred Galpin by H. P. Lovecraft. Ed. S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2003. pp. 273–75.
Hall, Mark. “Clark Ashton Smith Collections in the San Francisco Bay Area, Pt. 1: Letters to Samuel Loveman.” Lost Worlds No. 2 (2004): 31–38.
Herron, Don. “Collecting Clark Ashton Smith.” Firsts (October 2000): 26–37.
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———. “The Double Shadow: The Influence of Clark Ashton Smith.” In Jack
Vance. Ed. Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller. New York: Taplinger, 1980. pp.
87–102.
Hilger, Ronald S. One Hundred Years of Klarkash-Ton: The Clark Ashton Smith Centennial Conference. n.p.: Averon Press, 1996. Record of a conference held in Auburn to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Smith’s birth. Includes color reproduction of paintings and carvings by Smith. Also includes memoirs by Violet
Nelson Heyer and Robert B. Elder.
———, and Donald Sidney-Fryer. “The Phospor Lamps of Clark Ashton Smith.”
Chronicles of the Cthulhu Codex No. 17 (Winter 2000): 43–51.
Hillman, Arthur F. “The Poet of Science Fiction.” Fantasy Review No. 14 (April–
May 1949). Rpt. Yawning Vortex No. 9 (1996): 35–37.
Hussey, Derrick. “Clark Ashton Smith and the Bohemian Club.” Underworlds No. 1
(December 2002): 91–92.
Joshi, S. T., and Marc A. Michaud. “The Prose and Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith.”
Books at Brown 27 (1979): 81–87.
Leiber, Fritz, “On Fantasy: Lost Fantasies.” Fantasy Newsletter 5, No. 8 (September 1982): 7–9.
Lovecraft, H. P. The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature. Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2000. pp. 54–55.
———. Review of Ebony and Crystal. L’Alouette 1, No. 1 (January 1924): 20–21. In Collected Essays. Ed. S. T. Joshi. Vol. 2. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2004.
pp. 73–74.
Luserke, Uwe. “Klarkash-Ton: Poet des Monströsen: Leben und Werk des Clark
Ashton Smith.” Science Fiction Times (Germany) 27, No. 3 (March 1985): 4–7.
Lyman, William Whittingham. “Clark Ashton Smith.” Unpublished ms., Lyman
Family Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Brief
memoir of Smith and his family in the late 1920s by a friend not associated
with fantasy fandom.
Marigny, Jean. “L’Univers fantastique de Clark Ashton Smith.” Caliban 15, No. 1
(Publications de l’Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail, 1979). Rpt. Cahier Zothique.
Ed. Jean-Luc Buard. Maurepas, France: Les Presses d’Ananké, 1985. As “Clark
Ashton Smith and His World of Fantasy.” Trans. S. T. Joshi. Crypt of Cthulhu No. 26 (Hallowmas 1984): 3–12.
———. Les Mondes perdus de Clark Ashton Smith. Dole, France: La Clef d’Argent, 2004.
Mayer, F. J. “Clark Ashton Smith, Artist and Sculptor.” Fantasy: A Forum for Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists 2, No. 4 (Winter 1980): 8–11.
Mitchell, Steve. “Secret Worlds Incredible: The Weird Fiction of Clark Ashton
Smith.” Paperback Parade No. 34 (June 1993): 65–84.
———. “The Weird Corner.” Echoes (December 1991): 20–25.
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Morris, Harry, ed. CAS-Nyctalops. Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, August 1972. Special issue (number 7) of this important and long-running fanzine, with contributions by Robert Bloch, Marvin K. Hiemstra, Frank Belknap Long,
George Haas, Dennis Rickard, Charles K. Wolfe, S. J. Sackett, T. G. L. Cock-
croft, and many others.
Mullen, Stanley. “Cartouche (Clark Ashton Smith).” Gorgon No. 3 (July 1947): 54–
58.
Parker, Robert Allerton. “Such Pulps as Dreams Are Made On.” VVV (1943).
Rpt. Radical America (January 1970): 70–77. Early positive notice from a surrealist perspective.
Petaja, Emil. “The Man in the Mist.” Mirage No. 10 (1971): 21–25. Memoir.
Price, E. Hoffmann. Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others. Ed.
Peter Ruber. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 2001. Contains expanded version
of Price’s memoir from TSS. pp. 94–125.
Rickard, Dennis. The Fantastic Art of Clark Ashton Smith. Foreword by Gahan Wilson. Baltimore: Mirage Press, 1973. Contains many photos (unfortunately,
black and white) of Smith’s paintings and carvings.
Robillard, Douglas. “Clark Ashton Smith.” In Supernatural Fiction Writers. Ed. E. F.
Bleiler New York: Scribner’s, 1985. pp. 875–82.
Rockhill, Jim. “The Poetics of Morbidity: The Original Text to Clark Ashton
Smith’s ‘The Maze of Maal Dweb’ and Other Works First Published in The
Double Shadow and Other Fantasies. ” Lost Worlds No. 1 (2004): 20–25.
Ruber, Peter. “Clark Ashton Smith.” In Arkham’s Masters of Horror. Sauk City, W
I: Arkham House, 2000. pp. 53–61.
Rubin, Hal. “Clark Ashton Smith: Ill-Fated Master of Fantasy.” Sierra Heritage 5, No. 1 (June 1985): 34–38. Written by an acquaintance of Smith’s, it nonetheless contains several major errors amidst some invaluable contemporary accounts.
Schwartz, Robert. “Clark Ashton Smith: Dunsanian Temporality, Visions and Lit-
erary Concepts.” Tales of Horror and Damnation No. 6 (January 1985): 6–13, 17.
Schweitzer, Darrell. “Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantastic Worlds and Muddy
Prose.” Space and Time No. 18 (May 1973): 28–31.
———. “Klarkash-Ton, Sorcerer-Poet.” In The Maker of Gargoyles and Other Stories.
By Clark Ashton Smith. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2004. pp. 7–9.
Sidney-Fryer, Donald. Clark Ashton Smith: The Sorcerer Departs. West Hills, CA: Tsathoggua Press, 1997. Reprint of biographical-critical article from Chalker,
1963.
———. “Klarkash-Ton & Ech-Pi El: Or the Alleged Influence of H. P. Lovecraft on Clark Ashton Smith.” Mirage 1, No. 6 (Winter 1963–64): 30–33.
———. The Last of the Great Romantic Poets. Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, 1973. Essay-review of Smith’s Selected Poems.
———. “A Memoir of Timeus Gaylord: Reminiscences of Two Visits with Clark
Ashton Smith, &c.” Romantist 2 (1978): 1–19.
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———. “O Amor atque Realitas! Clark Ashton Smith’s First Adult Fiction.” Dark Eidolon No. 3 (Winter 1993): 22–25.
———. “On the Alleged Influence of Lord Dunsany on Clark Ashton Smith.”
Amra No. 23 (January 1963); rpt. Klarkash-Ton No. 1 (June 1988): 9–13, 15.
———. “A Statement for Imagination: George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith.”
Romantist 6–7–8 (1982–83–84): 13–23.
———, and Divers Hands. Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1978. Also contains memoir-letters by
Eric Greene, Rah Hoffman, Genevieve K. Sully, and Ethel Heiple, plus letters
of appreciation by such writers as Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber,
Avram Davidson, and others. The foundation upon which all Smith scholar-
ship rests.
Smith, Andrew. “The Dead Will Cuckold You, in Print and Manuscript, and an
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