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Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the worthy term sui generis. Clark Ashton Smithautodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre sculptor, and unmatched storytellersimply wrote like no one else, before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smiths visionary brand of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention, terror, and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder.
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THE DARK EIDOLON AND OTHER FANTASIES
CLARK ASHTON SMITH ( 1893 1961 ) was a poet, a sculptor, a painter, and the author of more than one hundred tales of fantasy and horror. A disciple of George Sterling and a close friend of H. P. Lovecraft, Smith was a member of the famous Lovecraft circle and was a regular contributor to Weird Tales in the 1930 s. He began his writing career as a poet, composing more than one thousand poems over the course of more than fifty years, much of his work exploring the realms of fantasy, terror, wonder, and the supernatural. His noteworthy volumes of poetry include The Star-Treader, Ebony and Crystal, and Sandalwood. His stories, sometimes written in the Cthulhu Mythos, were lush and vivid, wildly speculative, reminiscent of the Symbolist and Decadent movements, and often deeply sardonic. Later in life, he wrote less and turned to visual art as his preferred mode of expression. Smith died in 1961 .
S. T. JOSHI is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecrafts The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, as well as Algernon Blackwoods Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories, Arthur Machens The White People and Other Weird Stories, and American Supernatural Tales. He has also written critical studies on Lord Dunsany and H. P. Lovecraft; edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith, and H. L. Mencken; and completed a two-volume history of supernatural fiction entitled Unutterable Horror. He was recently honored with the creation of the S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship at Brown University Library and was awarded the Robert Bloch Award by the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council at NecronomiCon 2013 .
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Selection copyright 2014 by William Dorman, Executor of the Estate of Clark Ashton Smith
Introduction and notes copyright 2014 by S. T. Joshi
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The selections in this book first appeared in issues of Academy, Acolyte, Arkham Sampler, Auburn Journal, Bohemia, Different, Fantasmagoria, Fantasy Fan, Kaleidograph, Live Stories, Lost Worlds, Measure, Overland Monthly, Poetry, Smart Set, Town Talk, Troubadour, Weird Tales, Wonder Stories, in the following volumes of Clark Ashton Smiths works: The Complete Poetry and Translations (Volume I), edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Hippocampus Press, 2007 ), The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies (Auburn Journal Press, 1933 ), Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose (Auburn Journal Press, 1925 ), Nero and Other Poems (Futile Press, 1937 ), Odes and Sonnets (Book Club of California, 1918 ), Poems in Prose (Arkham House, 1965 ), Selected Poems (Arkham House, 1971 ), The Star-Treader and Other Poems (A. M. Robertson, 1912 ), and in the anthologies Fire and Sleet and Candlelight, edited by August Derleth (Arkham House, 1961 ) and Time to Come: Science-Fiction of Tomorrow, edited by August Derleth (Farrar, Straus & Young, 1954 ). The Hill of Dionysus ( 1961 ) and Cycles ( 1963 ) were published as chapbooks by Roy A. Squires.
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Clark Ashton Smiths prose fiction and poetry reveal to us realms, creatures, and events that never were and never could be, doing so in an idiom that utilized the linguistic resources of the English language to their fullest. This body of work embodies an exhilarating liberation of the imagination beyond the known and the mundane.
Clark Ashton Smith was born on January , 1893 , in Long Valley, California, the son of Timeus and Fanny (Gaylord) Smith. In 1902 the Smith family moved to nearby Auburn, in the Sierra foothills, where Timeus and young Clark built a cabin about a mile outside of town. Smith remained there for most of his life. Smiths formal education was intermittentseveral years attendance at two different grammar schools in or near Auburn, and only a few days attendance at Placer Union High Schoolbut his prodigious self-education, which included teaching himself Latin and reading through Websters Unabridged Dictionary, rendered him one of the most learned autodidacts of his time.
It was in his preteen years that Smith developed an interest in writing. At the age of eleven he began composing fairy tales and stories based on the Arabian Nights. Two long narratives, probably dating to 1907 or thereaboutsThe Black Diamonds, nearly , words in length, and a slightly shorter work, The Sword of Zagansurvive and have recently been published; they are longer than any of the fiction he would write as an adult. Although they do not generally involve the supernatural, these works evoke not only the Arabian Nights but also William Beckfords vivid Arabian novel, Vathek ( 1786 ).
In 1906 Smith discovered the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and Poes poetry in particular fired his imagination. This discovery was fused with Smiths fascination for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as translated by Edward FitzGerald, and by a long fantastic poem, George Sterlings A Wine of Wizardry, which appeared in the September 1907 issue of Cosmopolitan. Together, these works led to Smiths own early experiments in poetry.
Sterling ( 1869 1926 ) was then a relatively young poet whose first book, The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems ( 1903 ), had created something of a stir in California for its cosmic perspective: its long title poem depicts the cosmic flux of stars and constellations and its implications for human life. A Long Island native transplanted to San Francisco, Sterling fell under the tutelage of the venerable Ambrose Bierce ( 1842 1914 ?), who spent years trying to find a publisher for A Wine of Wizardry, finally succeeding in placing it in the magazine for which he himself was a contributing editor. The poem was published with a laudatory article by Bierce and created an immense furor both locally and nationally, as Bierces many literary and political enemies lambasted him for what they believed was his flamboyant praise of an esoteric poem devoted to fantastic and horrific imagery. Sterlings reputation was establishedin California, at leastand he became both the leader of a bohemian colony of writers and artists based in California and the uncrowned poet laureate of the Bay Area.
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