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Smith, Clark Ashton

Smith, Clark Ashton

Author Biography & Works

Clark Ashton Smith was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories and poetry, and an artist. He achieved early recognition in California 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.

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Books by Smith, Clark Ashton

Works By Clark Ashton Smith

Works By Clark Ashton Smith

(Works By Clark Ashton Smith)

This author, together with Robert Howard and HP Lovecraft, helped pioneer a whole genre of "weird tales" that the public had never encountered before. Clark blends together different genres: horror,...

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The Ultimate Weird Tales Collection

The Ultimate Weird Tales Collection

(Works By Clark Ashton Smith)

The third of five volumes collecting the complete stories of renowned “weird fiction” author Clark Ashton Smith. “None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith....

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The Return Of The Sorcerer

The Return Of The Sorcerer

(Works By Clark Ashton Smith)

Selected carefully by well-respected editor Robert Weinberg and with an introduction by award-winning author Gene Wolfe, The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith offers both readers...

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Zothique

Zothique

One of the sub-genre's first collections this sequences takes place on Earth's last continent in the far distant future.

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