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Post by David A. Riley on Feb 17, 2012 19:41:47 GMT
I know what you mean. I love Smith's fantasies/horrors, especially those in Zothque, but I can't say I care much for his SF.
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Post by noose on Feb 17, 2012 19:50:03 GMT
ashamed to say I've probably never read him - or can remember having read him...
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 17, 2012 19:56:39 GMT
An interesting surprise in the MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS volume is the inclusion of at least one "weird menace" story originally published as by E Hoffman Price. There is nothing recognizably Smith in it, but hey! you can never have enough "weird menace" if you ask me.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 17, 2012 19:59:32 GMT
I know what you mean. I love Smith's fantasies/horrors, especially those in Zothque, but I can't say I care much for his SF. Some of his "SF," such as "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" and "The Dweller in the Gulf," are among my favorite Smith stories. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Feb 17, 2012 21:04:55 GMT
I know what you mean. I love Smith's fantasies/horrors, especially those in Zothque, but I can't say I care much for his SF. Some of his "SF," such as "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" and "The Dweller in the Gulf," are among my favorite Smith stories. Hopefully needless to say, those weren't the ones I was referring to. But there are a few 'of their time' SF pulp adventure stories in those books that I never need to read again. |
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Post by David A. Riley on Feb 17, 2012 21:22:37 GMT
I know what you mean. I love Smith's fantasies/horrors, especially those in Zothque, but I can't say I care much for his SF. Some of his "SF," such as "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" and "The Dweller in the Gulf," are among my favorite Smith stories. No, these aren't the ones I was referring to. I look on these as being more fantasy than SF anyway. It's his much more blatantly SF stuff, which I think are fairly mediocre. They don't work for me anyway. Agreed, The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis and The Dweller in the Gulf are brilliant. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Feb 17, 2012 22:38:43 GMT
I'd still go for the Masterworks volume. Which is probably out of print now  I was all set to second (or third or fourth) the recommendation for the Masterworks Emperor of Dreams, but then I looked up what it's selling for now. Ouch! I think it's safe to say it's out of print, which is a shame because it's a great one-volume introduction to CAS. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Feb 18, 2012 0:18:54 GMT
I'd still go for the Masterworks volume. Which is probably out of print now I was all set to second (or third or fourth) the recommendation for the Masterworks Emperor of Dreams, but then I looked up what it's selling for now. Ouch! I think it's safe to say it's out of print, which is a shame because it's a great one-volume introduction to CAS. Gosh - yes! What a great shame this series has been allowed to lapse like that. |
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Post by dem on Feb 18, 2012 12:14:42 GMT
An interesting surprise in the MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS volume is the inclusion of at least one "weird menace" story originally published as by E Hoffman Price. There is nothing recognizably Smith in it, but hey! you can never have enough "weird menace" if you ask me. Which one's that, jojo? Bob Jones lists three weird menace stories credited to E. Hoffman Price but i've not spotted any of them on the MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS table of contents so i'm guessing it isn't from one of the red circle titles? |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 18, 2012 12:45:07 GMT
"House of the Monoceros." (Spicy Mystery Stories; originally published as "The Old Gods Eat.") |
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Post by dem on Aug 29, 2012 21:15:28 GMT
very belated thanks for that, JoJo  Clark Ashton Smith - Tales Of Science And Sorcery (Panther, 1976)  Bruce Pennington
Master Of The Asteroid
The Seed From The Sepulchre
The Root Of Ampoi
The Immortals Of Mercury
Murder In The Fourth Dimension
Deedings Of Mars
The Maker Of Gargoyles
The Great God Awto
Mother Of Toads
The Tomb-Spawn
Schizoid Creator
Sympostum Of The Gorgon
The Theft-Of Thirty Nine Girdles
MorthyllaBlurb Ghoulish Tales Of Weird Fantasy And Sheer Horror By The Master Of The MacabreGot this in Bethnal Green earlier. It had better be one of the horror heavy collections because for want of another 50p had to forgo the potential Holy Grail that is Dick Emery's In Character (Robson, 1973) - have hidden it behind a row of but it will be a nerve-shredding sixteen hours of fretting that some bastard muscles in before I can return and claim it tomorrow afternoon. Anyway, CAS. I recognise a few of these from their Magazine Of Horror/ Startling Mystery Stories reprints, and whenever i've liked his work - Seeds Of The Sepulchre, Vaults Of Yoh-Vombis, A Rendezvous In Averoigne, The Gorgon, Mother Of Toads: from my tragic red asterisk/ blue asterisk/ no asterisk marking days, there were 13 top scorers in all - I really liked it, but when I did't ... |
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Post by dem on Feb 9, 2013 17:43:56 GMT
Clark Ashton Smith - The Emperor Of Dreams: Fantasy Masterworks #26 (Gollancz , 2002. Ed Stephen Jones)  J. K. Potter
Song of the Necromancer
The Abominations of Yondo
The Ninth Skeleton
The Last Incantation
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
The Return of the Sorcerer
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
The Door to Saturn
The Gorgon
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
The Nameless Offspring
The Empire of the Necromancers
The Hunters from Beyond
The Isle of the Torturers
The Beast of Averoigne
Genius Loci
Ubbo-Sathla
The Kiss of Zoraida
The Seed from the Sepulcher
The Weaver in the Vault
The Ghoul
The Charnel God
The Death of Malygris
The Tomb-Spawn
The Seven Geases
Xeethra
The Dark Eidolon
The Flower-Women
The Treader of the Dust
The Black Abbot of Puthuum
Necromancy in Naat
The Death of Ilalotha
The Garden of Adompha
Mother of Toads
The Double Shadow
The Coming of the White Worm
The Root of Ampoi
Morthylla
An Offering to the Moon
The Theft of Thirty-Nine Girdles
Symposium of the Gorgon
Told in the Desert
Prince Alcouz and the Magician
A Good Embalmer
The Mortuary
Stephen Jones - Afterword: The Lost Worlds of Klarkash-TonBlurb: From the vampire-haunted alleyways of mediaeval Averoigne to the shining spires of dying Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith transports us to forgotten worlds and strange dimensions. In the enchanted regions of Hyperborea, Atlantis and Xiccarph, encounter malefic magic and demonic deeds beneath the last rays of a fading sun . . .
This volume is the first ever to encompass Clark Ashton Smith's entire career as a writer. He virtually stopped writing stories in 1937, but he left behind a unique legacy of fantasy fiction which is as imaginative and decadent today as when it was first published.Much discussion on the Seabury Quinn thread about Weird Tales authors best appreciated in small doses, and here's another one, at least, as far as this reader is concerned. The man was a genius of fantasy - have thrilled to enough of his stories to realise that - but It was sampling CAS made me realise that i'm just not arsed what happens on dying Zothique or forgotten Xiccarph, prefer horror and supernatural stories set in London or Macclesfield or Crawley to some imaginary far distant planet, no matter how much black magic and torture is on offer.
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Post by mcannon on Feb 10, 2013 0:07:40 GMT
Clark Ashton Smith - The Emperor Of Dreams: Fantasy Masterworks #26 (Gollancz , 2002. Ed Stephen Jones) >>Much discussion on the Seabury Quinn thread about Weird Tales authors best appreciated in small doses, and here's another one, at least, as far as this reader is concerned. The man was a genius of fantasy - have thrilled to enough of his stories to realise that - but It was sampling CAS made me realise that i'm just not arsed what happens on dying Zothique or forgotten Xiccarph, prefer horror and supernatural stories set in London or Macclesfield or Crawley to some imaginary far distant planet, no matter how much black magic and torture is on offer. >> I love CAS' work dearly, and rate him as one of my favourite writers. However after reading a few stories in a single sitting, even I tire of keeping a dictionary at hand, and start longing for some simple prose along the lines of "He walked down the corridor and entered the room". I find it hard to believe that I read my original Panther paperbacks of "Out of Space and Time" and "Lost Worlds" in just a few sessions. But I was a lot younger then, and had more endurance..... Interestingly, it looks as though the next CAS collection may be from the Penguin Modern Classics series!: www.eldritchdark.com/forum/read.php?1,9173,page=1 I'm sure the old boy would have been quite chuffed by that. MarkC |
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Post by doug on Feb 10, 2013 12:29:14 GMT
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Post by severance on Mar 5, 2013 12:03:25 GMT
Clark Ashton Smith - The Dweller in the Gulf, Necronomicon Press chapbook, June 1988. Cover art by Robert H. Knox. In the late 80's, Necronomicon produced half a dozen chapbooks called 'The Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith,' this is one of them. In their words: "... Smith's work frequently fell victim to the editor's pen, due to their length, their richly atmospheric prose, or, on occasion, their risque contents," therefore these chapbooks featured texts taken from the original manuscripts. "The Dweller in the Gulf" is one of my favourite of his S.F/horror stories, the ending being particularly stunning - it was that ending that was originally changed for magazine publication. |
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