Clark Ashton Smith Books In Order

The Averoigne Chronicles Books In Publication Order

  1. A Rendezvous in Averoigne (1931)
  2. Mother of Toads (1938)
  3. The Colossus of Ylourgne (2009)

The Averoigne Cycle Books In Publication Order

  1. The Averoigne Archives (2019)

The Book of Hyperborea Books In Publication Order

  1. The Coming of the White Worm (2009)

Tales of Zothique Books In Publication Order

  1. Xeethra (1934)
  2. Witchcraft Of Ulua (1988)
  3. The Dark Eidolon (2009)
  4. The Voyage of King Eurovan (2013)
  5. The Garden of Adompha (2014)

The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Books In Publication Order

  1. The End of the Story (1981)
  2. The Last Hieroglyph (1994)
  3. The Door to Saturn (2007)
  4. A Vintage From Atlantis (2007)
  5. The Maze of the Enchanter (2008)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Book of Eibon (2001)
  2. The Black Diamonds (2002)
  3. The Emperor of Dreams (2002)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Hashish-Eater (1920)
  2. The Dweller in the Gulf (1987)
  3. The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis (1988)
  4. Star Changes (2005)
  5. The Maze Of Maal Dweb (2006)
  6. The Flower Women (2006)
  7. The Empire Of The Necromancers (2009)
  8. Phoenix (2011)
  9. Genius Loci (2013)
  10. The Mahout (2014)
  11. The Star Treader (2016)

Graphic Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Maker of Gargoyles and Other Stories (2004)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Return of the Sorcerer (1931)
  2. The Double Shadow (1933)
  3. Out Of Space And Time Volume 1 (1942)
  4. Out Of Space And Time (1942)
  5. Lost Worlds (1944)
  6. Genius Loci and Other Tales (1948)
  7. The Abominations of Yondo (1960)
  8. Tales of Science and Sorcery (1964)
  9. Zothique (1970)
  10. Other Dimensions volume 1 (1970)
  11. Xiccarph (1972)
  12. Poseidonis (1973)
  13. Other Dimensions volume 2 (1977)
  14. The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)
  15. The City of the Singing Flame (1981)
  16. As It Is Written (1982)
  17. The Last Incantation (1982)
  18. The Monster of the Prophecy (1983)
  19. Strange Shadows (1989)
  20. The Devil’s Notebook (1991)
  21. Nostalgia of the Unknown (2001)
  22. The Last Oblivion (2002)
  23. The Sword of Zagan and Other Writings (2004)
  24. The White Sybil and Other Stories (2005)
  25. Red World of Polaris (2005)
  26. The Klarkash-Ton Cycle: The Lovecraftian Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith (2008)
  27. The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies (2014)

Poetry Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Star-Treader and other poems (1912)
  2. Odes and Sonnets (1918)
  3. A Phantasy And Other Prose Poems (1922)
  4. Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose (1922)
  5. Selected Poems (1971)
  6. Shadows Seen and Unseen: Poetry from the Shadows: Works of Clark Ashton Smith (2007)
  7. Moonlight and Other Poems (2009)

The Complete Poetry and Translations of Books In Publication Order

  1. The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 1 (2008)
  2. The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 2 (2008)
  3. The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 3 (2008)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Selected Letters (2003)
  2. The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith (2005)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure (2011)
  2. The Wildside Book of Fantasy (2012)
  3. Wonder and Glory Forever: Awe-Inspiring Lovecraftian Fiction (2020)

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Clark Ashton Smith Books Overview

The End of the Story

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive ‘preferred text’ for Smith’s entire body of work. This first volume of the series, brings together 25 of his fantasy stories, written between 1925 and 1930, including such classics as ‘The Abominations of Yondo,’ ‘The Monster of the Prophecy,’ ‘The Last Incantation’ and the title story.

The Last Hieroglyph

The Last Hieroglyph is the fifth of the five volume Collected Fantasies series. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts. The Last Hieroglyph includes, in chronological order, all of Clark Ashton Smith’s stories from ‘The Dark Age’ to ‘The Dart of Rasasfa.’

The Door to Saturn

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive ‘preferred text’ for Smith’s entire body of work. This second volume of the series brings together 20 of his fantasy stories.

A Vintage From Atlantis

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive ‘preferred text’ for Smith’s entire body of work. This third volume of the series brings together 21 of his fantasy stories.

The Maze of the Enchanter

This series presents Clark Ashton Smith’s fiction chronologically, based on composition rather than publication. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts. The Maze of the Enchanter includes, in chronological order, all of his stories from ‘The Mandrakes’ February, 1933 to ‘The Flower Women’ May, 1935. This volume also features an introduction, and extensive notes on each story.

The Book of Eibon

Tales of lore tell of The Book of Eibon, a tome so ancient that it was originally written in the Hyperborean language of Tsath Yo, long before Atlantis was born from the sea. It goes by dozens of names and predates even the Necronomicon and Unaussprechlichen Kulten. Now, Chaosium reveals the true secrets of The Book of Eibon for the first time. The contents of The Book of Eibon are primarily the work of Clark Ashton Smith, one of the most famous authors of Weird Tales and the inventor of The Book of Eibon, as well as Lin Carter, esteemed fantasy and horror editor. Robert Price, Richard Tierney, Joseph Pulver, and a number of other authors have helped complete the text, resulting in a tome that reveals all the secrets of the Cthulhu Mythos, from the history of the first alien races to come to Earth, to the histories of the Elder Magi of Hyperborea, and the story of Eibon’s life and death. Sales Points: Long awaited by Call of Cthulhu players and weird Fiction readers alike. Cross over sales with Call of Cthulhu RPG. Includes works by Cthulhu Mythos masters Lin Carter, Clark Ashton Smith, and Richard L. Tierney. This book is part of an expanding collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction and related topics. Call of Cthulhu fiction focuses on single entities, concepts, or authors significant to readers and fans of H.P. Lovecraft.

The Black Diamonds

At the age of fourteen, Clark Ashton Smith wrote an Arabian Nights adventure novel called The Black Diamonds. At nearly 90,000 words, it is the longest work of fiction he would ever write in his long career. The thrilling and fast paced story of seventeenth century Bagdad deals with two mysterious black diamonds and the conflict they engender between an Arab family and the powerful thief who seeks to regain them. Kidnapping, piracy, and even a possibly supernatural Lake of Fire are all involved in this vibrant and well crafted narrative. Although a work of Smith’s youth, The Black Diamonds can withstand comparison with any of his later tales of Zothique, Hyperborea, and Atlantis for compelling readability. This never before published novel has been meticulously edited by leading fantasy scholar S. T. Joshi.

The Emperor of Dreams

From the vampire haunted alleyways of mediaeval Averoigne to the shining spires of dying Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith weaves his literary sorcery, transporting us to forgotten realms of necromancies and nightmares, lost worlds and other dimensions. In the enchanted regions of Hyperborea, Atlantis and Xiccarph, encounter malefic magic and demonic deeds beneath the last rays of a fading sun…
For the first time ever, this volume encompas*ses Clark Ashton Smith’s entire career as a writer. Smith virtually stopped writing stories in 1937, for reasons that have never been satisfactorily explained, but he left behind a unique legacy of fantasy fiction which is as imaginative and decadent today as when it was first published in the pulp magazines more than half a century ago.

The Hashish-Eater

THE HASHISH EATER 1920, an extraordinary prose poem of malignant cosmic decadence and psychedelic evil, remains the signature work of its creator, the prolific fantasy author Clark Ashton Smith. Figuring prominently in the ranks of classic drug literature, THE HASHISH EATER clearly shows the influence on Smith of ninteenth century symbolists and visionary decadents such as Huysmans, Baudelaire, and William Beckford, allied to an avant garde evocation of galactic horror. This special ebook edition of THE HASHISH EATER also includes the author’s own summary of the work, plus a rare bonus chapter, Smith’s hallucinatory fragment IN A HASHISH DREAM.

The Empire Of The Necromancers

Included in this volume are four tales by Clark Ashton Smith: ‘The Empire Of The Necromancers,’ ‘The Enchantress of Sylaire,’ ‘The Invisible City,’ and ‘The Mother of Toads.’

The Maker of Gargoyles and Other Stories

Think of the visions his stories conjure up as sendings, written in strange runes, transported from the sorcerer’s lair by indescribable genii or winged spirits.

The Return of the Sorcerer

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 and scholars a definitive collection of short fiction and short novels, by an overlooked master of fantasy, horror and science fiction.

The Double Shadow

A collection of six stories ranging from contemporary horror to weird alternate world fantasy, this book remains a fascinating introduction and showcase to Smith’s decadently jeweled prose.

Out Of Space And Time

An artist, poet, and prolific contributor to Weird Tales, Clark Ashton Smith 1893 1967 is an influential figure in the history of pulp fiction. A close correspondent and collaborator with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was widely celebrated as a master by his contemporaries. Back in print for the first time since 1971, Out Of Space And Time showcases the many facets of Smith’s unique prose that make him one of the greatest American writers of macabre and fantastic tales. Here are tales of Averoigne, tales belonging to the Cthulhu, stories of sheer horror, and one or two of sardonic comedy. Jeff VanderMeer provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.

Lost Worlds

An artist, poet, and prolific contributor to Weird Tales, Clark Ashton Smith 1893 1967 is an influential figure in the history of pulp fiction. A close correspondent and collaborator with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was widely celebrated as a master by his contemporaries. Back in print for the first time since 1971, Lost Worlds brings together twenty three of Smith’s classic stories, all of which were originally published in Weird Tales. Rather than center his works on heroes, Smith created fantastical worlds around which he built cycles of stories. Included here are tales from the realms of Averoigne, Zothique, Hyperborea, and others. Told in lush poetic prose, these haunting stories bring to life dark, dreamlike realms full of gothic monsters and mortals. Jeff VanderMeer provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.

Zothique

Lin Carter edited the Ballantine Adult Fantasy line during the late 60’s and early 70’s. These titles can be recognized by the ‘Unicorn’ symbol on the cover. Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith is one of the many titles that Lin Carter rescued from obscurity and published for Ballantine.

The City of the Singing Flame

When Giles Angarth disappeared, nearly two years ago, we had been friends for a decade or more, and I knew him as well as anyone could purport to know him. Yet the thing was no less a mystery to me than to others at the time, and until now, it has remained a mystery. Like the rest, I sometimes thought that he and Ebbonly had designed it all between them as a huge, insoluble hoax; that they were still alive, somewhere, and laughing at the world that was so sorely baffled by their disappearance. And, until I at last decided to visit Crater Ridge and find, if I could, the two boulders mentioned in Angarth’s narrative, no one had uncovered any trace of the missing men or heard even the faintest rumor concerning them…
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The Last Oblivion

Clark Ashton Smith could well be considered one of the great poets of the twentieth century, and much of his verse explores the realms of fantasy, terror, wonder, and the supernatural. In this volume the first major selection of Smith’s poetry in more than thirty years editors S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz have presented an extensive array of poetic work that fully reveals Smith s exotic language, imaginative range, and metrical precision. Including work from as early as the precocious Star Treader and Other Poems 1912 and as late as the posthumously published The Hill of Dionysus 1962, The Last Oblivion features such celebrated works as ‘Nero,’ ‘Ode to the Abyss,’ and Smith s exquisite elegies to his mentor George Sterling and to his colleague in fantasy, H. P. Lovecraft. Poems on Zothique, Averoigne, and Atlantis, realms in which many of his prose tales are set, are also featured. More than two dozen unpublished or uncollected poems, never previously included in any of Smith s books, make The Last Oblivion a must for Smith devotees. Two full color illustrations by Clark Ashton Smith and an exhaustive glossary of unusual words and names used in Smith s poetry enhance the volume.

The White Sybil and Other Stories

This new collection assembles some of the rarest fantasy and horror stories from the pen of Clark Ashton Smith. Included are ‘The White Sybil,’ ‘Chinoiserie,’ ‘The Raja and the Tiger,’ ‘The Justice of the Elephant,’ ‘The Kiss of Zoraida,’ ‘The Ghoul,’ ‘Something New,’ ‘The Malay Krise,’ ‘The Ghost of Mohammed Din,’ ‘The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony,’ ‘The Mahout,’ ‘The Primal City,’ ‘The Hunters from Beyond,’ ‘The Passing of Aphrodite,’ ‘The Tale of Sir John Maundeville,’ and ‘The Light from Beyond.’

Red World of Polaris

A collection of Smith’s Captain Volmar stories, including the never before published novella, ‘Red World of Polaris.’ Space adventure stories. Contents: The Magellen of the Constellations: An Introduction Ronald S. Hilger & Scott Connors Marooned in Andromeda A Captivity in Serpens The Red World of Polaris The Ocean World of Alioth a fragment Captain Volmar and Crew: An Afterword Donald Sydney Fryer

The Klarkash-Ton Cycle: The Lovecraftian Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith

Here is a collection of Clark Aston Smith’s Cthulhu Mythos fiction, collected and arranged by Robert M. Price, with commentary for each of the stories. Included here are ‘The Ghoul’, ‘A Rendering from the Arabic’, ‘Ubbo Sathla’, ‘The Werewolf of Averoigne’, and others.

A Phantasy And Other Prose Poems

Clark Ashton Smith 1893 1961 was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. His formal education was limited: he suffered from psychological disorders and for this reason attended only eight years of grammar school and never went to high school. However, he continued to teach himself after he left school, learning French and Spanish, and his nearphotographic memory allowed him to retain prodigious amounts from his very wide reading, including several entire dictionaries and encyclopedias. In his later youth he became the protege of the San Francisco poet George Sterling, who helped him to publish his first volume of poems, The Star Treader and Other Poems, at the age of nineteen. The Star Treader was received very favourably by American critics. Smith made the acquaintance of Sterling through a member of the local Auburn Monday Night Club, where he read several of his poems with considerable success. The publication of Ebony and Crystal in 1922 was followed by a fan letter from H. P. Lovecraft, which was the beginning of fifteen years of friendship and correspondence. His other works include: Odes and Sonnets 1918 and Sandalwood 1925.

Moonlight and Other Poems

Clark Ashton Smith 1893 1961 was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. His formal education was limited: he suffered from psychological disorders and for this reason attended only eight years of grammar school and never went to high school. However, he continued to teach himself after he left school, learning French and Spanish, and his nearphotographic memory allowed him to retain prodigious amounts from his very wide reading, including several entire dictionaries and encyclopedias. In his later youth he became the prot g of the San Francisco poet George Sterling, who helped him to publish his first volume of poems, The Star Treader and Other Poems, at the age of nineteen. The Star Treader was received very favorably by American critics. Smith made the acquaintance of Sterling through a member of the local Auburn Monday Night Club, where he read several of his poems with considerable success. The publication of Ebony and Crystal in 1922 was followed by a fan letter from H. P. Lovecraft, which was the beginning of fifteen years of friendship and correspondence. His other works include: Odes and Sonnets 1918 and Sandalwood 1925.

The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 3

In addition to being a prolific and innovative poet in his own right, Clark Ashton Smith was a noted translator of French and Spanish poetry. Teaching himself French in the mid 1920s, Smith undertook the ambitious program of translating the entirety of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal The Flowers of Evil into English. Over the next several years he succeeded in translating all but six of the 157 poems that comprised the definitive 1868 edition of Les Fleurs du mal. Smith would begin with a relatively literal prose translation and would later render it into verse; in the end, Smith versified about a third of the poems, the rest remaining in prose. His mentor George Sterling testified to the remarkable spiritual affinity between Smith and Baudelaire, rendering him the perfect translator of this difficult poet. Smith also translated other noteworthy French poets Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, and Th ophile Gautier, among others as well as such obscure poets as Marie Dauguet and Tristan Klingsor. In the 1940s Smith taught himself Spanish, making splendid verse translations of such poets as Amado Nervo, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, and and Jorge Isaacs. The great majority of the poems included in this volume are unpublished.

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