Clark Ashton Smith

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    95 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1965
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Book List in Order: 95 titles

  • The Death of Ilalotha

    in Bloodsuckers: The Vampire Archives Volume 1

    The Vampire Archives is the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once you're in its clutches there's no escape. From the first to last bite, it's a bloody good read. Featuring:...

  • Hyperborea

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  • 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 re...

  • The Last Incantation

  • Monster of the Prophecy

  • Nostalgia of the Unknown

  • Book of Hyberborea

  • 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 seve...

  • The Sword Of Zagan And Other Writings



  • Red World of Polaris

    “For a long time, Smith’s The Red World of Polaris was assumed to be lost. It was the El Dorado of Smith fanatics. But a copy turned up a few years ago " it was nothing short of a miracle. The people at Nightshade Books published it, along with...

  • The Maker of Gargoyles

    This fine collection of Clark Ashton Smith's work reprints eight of his classic fantasies, including two set in legendary Hyperborea. Think of the visions his stories conjure up as sendings, written in strange runes, transported from the sorcerer's l...

  • The Maker Of Gargoyles And Other Stories

    Clark Ashton Smith was a prodigy, who wrote Arabian Nights novels in his mid-teens and was heralded as a major voice in American poetry by the time he was nineteen. In one frantic burst in the middle 1930s, he wrote nearly a hundred strange, wondrous...

  • The White Sybil

    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,...

  • The White Sybil And Other Stories

    A selection of rare fantasy and horror stories by Clark Ashton Smith. Incluced 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...

  • 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 cel...

  • 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 cel...

  • The End of the Story

    The first 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. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conceptio...

  • The Door To Saturn

    • Ideal for fans of the Nightshade Anthology
    • The second of five volumes collecting every story of fantasy, horror, and science fiction written by Clark Ashton Smith
    • Authorized by Smith’s estate and endorsed by Arkham House
  • The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Vol. 3

    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. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conceptio...



  • The Klarkash-Ton Cycle

    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 Aver...

  • The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume 4

    The fourth 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. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of concepti...

  • The Colossus of Ylourgne and Three Others

  • The Empire of the Necromancers and Three Others

  • 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 s...

  • The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 5

    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 def...

  • DARK DIMENSIONS OF DEATH

    Along with H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith stands as part of the great triumvirate of horror/fantasy writers who emerged from the ranks of Weird Tales magazine in the 1920s and 1930s. Whilst not quite as well-known as these il...

  • The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan

    ne of Clark Ashton Smith's best fantasy stories from Weird Tales, "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" chronicles the strange doom of Avoosl Wuthoqquan, greedy money-lender. Introduction by John Gregory Betancourt....

  • The Double Shadow

    The Double Shadow was originally published by the Auburn Journal in 1933 in an oversized-edition limited to only 1,000 copies. Smith carefully signed and hand-corrected many typographical errors for years to come. A collection of six stories ranging ...

  • The Immortals of Mercury

    Clark Howards descent into the cave systems of Mercury, where perils abound from crevasses to local "residents" excerpt Cliff Howard's first sensation, as he came back to consciousness, was one of well-nigh insufferable heat. It seemed to beat upon h...



  • The Plutonian Drug

    Life in the future centuries is touch upon this story with the depiction of the strange and prophetical effects upon the human intellect of a strange chemical imported from, what may be, the most distant of planets. excerpt "It is remarkable," said D...

  • The Demon of the Flower

    The Demon Flower of Lophai demanded sacrifices, for it was not a peaceful and passive flower such as those found on earth. ExcerptNot as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai....

  • Marooned In Andromeda

    Three mutineers end up stranded on a strange world with even stranger inhabitants!Excerpt"I'm going to put you fellows off on the first world of the first planetary system we come to."The icy deliberation of Captain Volmar's tones was more terrible t...

  • The Raja and the Tiger

    Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 " August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of Geo...

  • Odes and Sonnets

    Long before the association with "Weird Tales" magazine and H.P. Lovecraft that led to his enduring fame, Clark Ashton Smith was a well-regarded regional poet whose tastes ran to the romantic and the fantastic. This collection of poems -- ori...

  • An Offering to the Moon

    Join Morley and Thorway on their exploration of the temples of Mu. Were they devoted to peaceful solar worship… or a something darker?Excerpt"I believe," announced Morley, "that the roofless temples of Mu were not all devoted to solar worship, but ...

  • Seedling of Mars

    It was in the fall of 1947, that the strange visitor from outer space landed in the middle of the huge stadium at Berkeley where the game was to be held.ExcerptDescending with peculiar deliberation, it was seen and pointed out by multitudes of people...

  • A Vintage From Atlantis

    Back in print in new trade paperback editions, 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. In sheer ...

  • Phoenix

  • 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 li...



  • Master of the Asteroid

    The Selenite was one of the first space vessels the fate of its astronauts and the mysterious asteroid they landed on was a strange tale...excerpt"Man's conquest of the interplanetary gulfs has been fraught with many tragedies. Vessel after vessel, l...

  • The Ninth Skeleton

    A walk into the woods leads to a terrifying discovery… (note very short story)excerptExcerptIt was beneath the immaculate blue of a morning in April that I set out to keep my appointment with Guenevere. We had agreed to meet on Boulder Ridge, at a ...

  • Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith

    The Miscellaneous Fictions of Clark Ashton Smith gathers together the adventure, juvenilia and other non-fantastic fiction of Smith. While he is known best for his fantastic work, these adventure and mainstream stories shed light on the development o...

  • Murder in the Fourth Dimension

    A scribbled note left by a tree was the only clue to two missing men…ExcerptNot everyone, perhaps, will believe that my ten years' hatred for Edgar Halpin was the impelling force that drove me to the perfecting of a most unique invention. Only thos...

  • The Invisible City

    The search for the city of Kobar takes a mysterious and deadly turn…Excerpt"Confound you," said Langley in a hoarse whisper that came with effort through swollen lips, blue-black with thirst. "You've gulped about twice your share of the last water ...

  • A Copy of Burns

  • Schzoid Creator

  • The Eternal World

  • The Mother of Toads

  • A Rendezvous in Averoigne



  • The Charnel God

  • Necromancy in Naat

  • The Visitors From Mlok

  • The Complete Poetry and Translations of Clark Ashton Smith

    Clark Ashton Smith was one of the most remarkable and distinctive American poets of the twentieth century. His tremendous output of poetry, totaling nearly 1000 original poems written over a span of more than fifty years, is of the highest craftsmans...

  • The Voyage of King Eurovan

  • A Voyage to Sfanomoë

  • A Voyage to SfanomoE

  • Morthylla

  • The Weird Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith

    The Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK" series celebrates Clark Ashton Smith with 17 of his classic fantasy & horror stories from WEIRD TALES and other sources! Included here are:

    THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDOTHE THIRD EPISODE OF VATHEKTHIRTEEN PHA...

  • An Adventure in Futurity

    A survior from the lost continents of Mu or Atlantis, appearing on our modern streets, would have seemed no stranger, no more different from others, than the man who called himself Conrad Elkins... A fantasy classic from the legendary weird fiction a...

  • Genius Loci

  • The Abominations of Yondo

    Clark Ashton Smith -- widely regarded as the third of the "Big Three" to emerge from the early days of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (after H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard) -- published dozens of weird fantasy tales. "The Abominations...

  • The Planet of the Dead

  • Symposium of the Gorgon

  • The Black Abbot of Puthuum

    Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 " August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of Geo...

  • The Chain of Aforgomon

    Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 " August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of Geo...

  • The Colossus of Ylourgne

    Nathaire a thrice infamous alchemist, astrologer and necromancer has unleashed upon the world horrors from Abaddon. Can Gaspard du Nord fight this evil? Or will the world be overrun by the horrors of Abaddon…...

  • Dark Age

  • The Dark Eidolon

    Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 " August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of Geo...

  • The Death of Malygris

    The dark sorcerer Malygris has died, though Maranapion suspects there is more to his death than meets the eye. Maranapion and other wizards set out to ensure that Malygris is truly dead, and has not been using necromancy to extend his life beyond the...

  • The Ice-Demon

  • Clark Ashton Smith's Works

    Clark Ashton Smith's Works contained 13 works written by Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 - August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieve...

  • The Devotee of Evil

    The old Larcom house was a mansion of considerable size and dignity, set among oaks and cypresses on the hill behind Auburn's Chinatown, in what had once been the aristocratic section of the village. At the time of which I write, it had been unoccupi...

  • The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

    A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him -- unexcelled by any other writer, dead ...

  • Ebony and Crystal

    From the PREFACE.

    Who of us care to be present at the accouchment of the immortal? I think that we so attend who are first to take this book in our hands. A bold assertion, truly, and one demonstrable only in years remote from these; and -- ...

  • The Garden of Adompha

    Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 - August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of Georg...

  • The Ghost of Mohammed Din

    It was late in the afternoon, and we were seated on the veranda of my friend's bungalow in the Begum suburb at Hyderabad. Our conversation had turned to ghosts, on which subject I was, at the time, rather skeptical, and Nicholson, after relating a nu...

  • The Mahout

    Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 " August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of Geo...

  • The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 1: The End of the Story

    Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape "weird fiction" in the early twentieth century, alongside contemporaries H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, drawi...

  • The Maze of the Enchanter

    "None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer." -- H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greate...

  • The Last Hieroglyph

    "None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer." -- H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greate...

  • The Averoigne Chronicles

    The Averoigne stories of Clark Ashton Smith are among the most vivid and breathtaking in all of fantasy literature. Smith's unparalleled imagination is complimented by the artwork of David Ho, who has created twelve double-page, full color artwork...

  • The Averoigne Archives

    ENTER THE HAUNTED LAND OF AVEROIGNECollected into one volume are all of "Weird Tales" author Clark Ashton Smith's short stories of Averoigne, the sinister, monster-haunted province of medieval France. Werewolves and satyrs stalk the dark forests, wi...

  • The Averoigne Legacy

    REVISIT THE CURSED LAND OF AVEROIGNE THROUGHOUT THE AGES “Gaspard du Nord’s translation of the Liber Ivonis into medieval French in the 12th century brought about frightful consequences -- the popular diffusion of certain rites and incantat...

  • Ebony And Crystal Poems In Verse And Prose

  • The Enchantress of Sylaire

    Her Land was old in evil and sorcery -- and all who dwelt therein were ancient as the Land...and equally accursed! Classic fantasy from Weird Tales. Includes a new introduction by John Betancourt...

  • Zothique: The Final Cycle

    Zothique, a mythical land of the far future, is Clark Ashton Smith's most carefully worked out fantasy realm, and many of his most celebrated stories are set in this evocative world of languid decadence, strangeness, and sexuality. Beginning with The...

  • Lair of the Eldritch Dark

    Lair of the Eldritch Dark gathers many of Clark Ashton Smith's classic tales of fantasy and horror—along with his ethereal poetry and prose poems—together in one wide-ranging volume of speculative fantastical fiction and verse.A great f...

  • Interplanetaries

    Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) is best known for creating exotic worlds of fantasy, such as the lost continent Zothique, set in the far future, the arctic realm of Hyperborea, and the medieval domain of Averoigne. It is less widely known that Smith w...

  • The Black Book

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  • The City of Singing Flame

    • / Epic Fantasy
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  • Genius Loci, and Other Tales

    • / Horror
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  • Poseidonis

    • / Fantasy
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    Poseidonis is a collection of five stories concerning the end of the civilization of Atlantis, a land of powerful wizards yet not powerful enough to stave off the death of that once mighty realm. Poseidonis is the last remnant of the lost continent.T...

  • The Star-Treader and other poems

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    Clark Ashton Smith (13 January 1893 - 14 August 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George ...

  • Strange Tales, October 1932

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    A FICTION HOUSE PULP REPLICA: The October 1932 issue of STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR containing The Hunters From Beyond by Clark Ashton Smith, The Curse of Amen-Ra by Victor Rousseau, Sea-Tiger by Henry S. Whitehead, The Dead Walk Softly by Se...

  • Tales of Science and Sorcery

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Award-Winning Books by Clark Ashton Smith

The Double Shadow
2011 L.A. Times Book Prize -- Poetry


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Clark Ashton Smith has published 95 books.

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The first book by Clark Ashton Smith, The Death of Ilalotha, was published in January 1965.

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