Clark Ashton Smith -The Last Hieroglyph (Coll.Works 5)

[andydecker]

Clark Ashton Smith - The Last Hieroglyph

Volume Five of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith

(Night Shade Books, 2010, hc, 360 pages)

Cover: Jason Van Hollander

Contents:
Richard A. Lupoff – Introduction
A Note on the Texts - Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
The Dark Age (1938)
The Death of Malygris [Malygris] (1934)
The Tomb-Spawn [Zothique] (1934)
The Witchcraft of Ulua [Zothique] (1934)
The Coming of the White Worm (Chapter IX of the Book of Eibon) [Hyperborea] (1941)
The Seven Geases [Hyperborea] (1934)
The Chain of Aforgomon (1935)
The Primal City (1934)
Xeethra [Zothique] (1934)
The Last Hieroglyph [Zothique] (1935)
Necromancy in Naat [Zothique] (1936)
The Treader of the Dust (1935)
The Black Abbot of Puthuum [Zothique] (1936)
The Death of Ilalotha [Zothique] (1937)
Mother of Toads [Averoigne] (1938)
The Garden of Adompha [Zothique] (1938)
The Great God Awto (1940)
Strange Shadows (1984)
The Enchantress of Sylaire [Averoigne] (1941)
Double Cosmos (1983)
Nemesis of the Unfinished (1984)
The Master of the Crabs [Zothique] (1948)
Morthylla [Zothique] (1953)
Schizoid Creator (1953)
Monsters in the Night (1954)
Phoenix (1954)
The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles [Satampra Zeiros] (1958
Symposium of the Gorgon (1958)
The Dart of Rasasfa (1984)
Story Notes by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger
Variant Temptation Scenes from "The Witchcraft of Ulua" [Zothique]
"The Traveler" - poem
Material Removed from "The Black Abbot of Puthuum"
Alternate Ending to "I Am Your Shadow"
Alternate Ending to "Nemesis of the Unfinished"

Bibliography

The Night Shade edition:
1: The End of the Story
2: The Door to Saturn
3: A Vintage from Atlantis
4: The Maze of the Enchanter
5: The Last Hieroglyph

[helrunar]

A friend pointed me towards this recording of Clark Ashton Smith reading his poems. The sound quality is bad and I can only understand what he's saying by following along with the text of the poems, helpfully provided in the accompanying video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRRzaC35pZI

This is Clark in old age, and he mostly sounds tired and droning, but there are still faint flashes of alchemical fire, here and there.

Hel.

[Jojo Lapin X]

Oct 23, 2023 14:12:37 GMT helrunar said:

The sound quality is bad

It was originally released on a cassette tape (which I used to own).