Clark Ashton Smith bibliography
The following is a list of works by Clark Ashton Smith.
Short Fiction
Title | Date published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Fictional setting | Notes | Online versions |
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The Abominations of Yondo | Apr 1926 | Overland Monthly (Vol 84, #4) | The Abominations of Yondo | |||
Across the Time-Stream | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis for what would become "The Eternal World" | ||
An Adventure in Futurity | April 1931 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | |||
The After-Men | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Amazing Planet | Summer 1931 | Wonder Stories Quarterly (Summer) | Other Dimensions | originally titled: "A Captivity in Serpens" | ||
The Arm from the Fig-Tree | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
Ascharia | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and a fragment | ||
The Atmospheric Entity | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Beast of Averoigne | May 1933 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Averoigne | abridged version original published version | |
Between Two Worlds | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
Beyond the Rose-Arbor | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
Beyond the Singing Flame | November 1931 | Wonder Stories | A Vintage from Atlantis | |||
The Black Abbot of Puthuum | Mar 1936 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | ||
A Bottle On the Orinoco | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Brahmin's Wisdom | 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | although included in the Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27), the work appears to be an English language translation of Gustav Meyrink's "Die Weisheit des Brahmanen", most likely not due to Smith. (see ) | |||
The Bronze Image | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | |||
The Burial-Place of the Unknown | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Cairn | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Chain of Aforgomon | 1935 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | |||
The Charnel God | Mar 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | ||
Checkmate | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
Chincharrero | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
The City of the Singing Flame | 1931 | Wonder Stories | Out of Space and Time | |||
The Colossus of Ylourgne | Jun 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Averoigne | ||
The Coming of the White Worm | Apr 1941 | Stirring Science Stories | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | abridged version | |
The Conquest of Mercury | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
A Copy of Burns | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
The Cosmic Sequel | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Crabs of Iribos | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Cypress | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Dark Age | Apr 1938 | Thrilling Wonder Stories[2] | The Abominations of Yondo | |||
The Dark Eidolon | Jan 1935 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Zothique | ||
The Dart of Rasasfa | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
Dead Assassins | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Death of Ilalotha | Sept 1937 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Zothique | ||
The Death of Malygris | Apr 1934 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Poseidonis | ||
The Demon From Alphard | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Demon of the Flower | Dec 1933 | Astounding Stories | Lost Worlds | Lophai (alien planet) | ||
The Destination of Gideon Balcoth | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Devotee of Evil | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | The Abominations of Yondo | unpublished synopsis | ||
The Dimension of Chance | Nov 1932 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | |||
The Disinterment of Venus | Jul 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Averoigne | unpublished synopsis | |
Djinn without A Bottle | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
The Dome in the Ice | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Doom of Azédarac | 1979 | The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a fragment | ||
The Door to Saturn | Jan 1932 | Strange Tales | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | ||
Double Cosmos | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
The Double Dream | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Double Shadow | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Out of Space and Time | Poseidonis | unpublished synopsis | |
The Dweller in the Gulf | Mar 1933 | Wonder Stories | The Abominations of Yondo | Aihai (Mars) | ||
The Eggs from Saturn | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
The Elder Manor | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Embassy to Tiirath | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Emerald Eye | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | ||
The Emir's Captive | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | |||
The Empire of the Necromancers | Sept 1932 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | ||
The Enchantress of Sylaire | Jul 1941 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Averoigne | ||
The End of the Story | May 1930 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Averoigne | ||
The Entity of the Sands | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Epiphany of Death | Jul 1934 | The Fantasy Fan[3] | The Abominations of Yondo | |||
The Eternal World | Mar 1932 | Wonder Stories[4] | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
Eviction by Night | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
An Excursion in Time | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Expert Lover | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
Fakhreddin | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | |||
The Feet of Sidaiva | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Zothique | a one-sentence plot synopsis | |
The Flirt | Mar 1923 | Live Stories (vol 36) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
The Flower-Women | May 1935 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Xiccarph | ||
From A Lost World | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Fulfilled Prophecy | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | |||
The Galley from Atlantis | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Garden of Adompha | Apr 1938 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | ||
The Gargoyle of Vyones | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a synopsis | |
Genius Loci | 1948 | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
The Ghost of Mohammed Din | Nov 1910 | Overland Monthly | Other Dimensions | |||
The Ghoul | Jan 1934 | The Fantasy Fan | Other Dimensions | |||
The Ghoul from Mercury | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
A Gift from the Beloved | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The God of the Asteroid | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
A Good Embalmer | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Gorgon | Apr 1932 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | |||
Gossip | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
The Great God Awto | Feb 1940 | Thrilling Wonder Stories | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
The Guardian of the Temple | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | ||
The Haunted Chamber | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | |||
The Haunted Gong | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | |||
Hecate | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
The Holiness of Azédarac | Nov 1933 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Averoigne | ||
The House of Haon-Dor | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Hyperborea | a fragment, written July 1933 | |
The Hunters from Beyond | Oct 1932 | Strange Tales | Lost Worlds | |||
The Hyperborean City | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
I Am A Witch | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Ice-Demon | 1960 | The Abominations of Yondo | The Abominations of Yondo | Hyperborea | written in 1933 | |
The Immeasurable Horror | Sept 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
The Immortals of Mercury | 1932 | Science Fiction Series (#16) | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
In A Hashish-Dream | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
In the Book of Vergama | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
The Infernal Star | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
The Inverse Avatar | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Invisible City | Jun 1932 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | |||
The Invisible Devourer | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
The Invisible Satellite | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
The Isle of the Torturers | Mar 1933 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | ||
The Justice of the Elephant | 1931 | Oriental Stories (Fall) | Other Dimensions | |||
The Kiss of Zoraida | Jul 1933 | The Magic Carpet | Other Dimensions | |||
The Last Hieroglyph | Apr 1935 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Zothique | ||
The Last Incantation | Jun 1930 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Poseidonis | ||
The Letter from Mohaun Los | Aug 1932 | Wonder Stories | Lost Worlds | originally published as "Flight into Super-Time" | ||
The Light from Beyond | Apr 1933 | Wonder Stories | Lost Worlds | |||
The Light from the Pole | 1980 | Weird Tales 1 (Zebra Books) | ||||
The Lord of Lunacy | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
The Lunar Brain | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Lunar Path | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Mahout | Aug 1911 | The Black Cat (V16 #11) | Other Dimensions | |||
The Maker of Gargoyles | Aug 1932 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Averoigne | ||
Maker of Prodigies | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Malay Krise | Oct 1910 | Overland Monthly | Other Dimensions | also published as "The Malay Creese" | ||
Mandor's Enemy | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Zothique | a fragment | |
The Mandrakes | Feb 1933 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | Averoigne | ||
Marooned in Andromeda | Oct 1930 | Wonder Stories | Other Dimensions | |||
The Master of Destruction | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment and a synopsis | ||
Master of the Asteroid | Oct 1932 | Wonder Stories | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
The Master of the Crabs | Mar 1948 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Zothique | ||
The Maze of Maâl Dweb | Oct 1938 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Xiccarph | ||
The Maze of the Enchanter | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | ||||
The Mechanical Murder | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
Men of the Macrocosm | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Menace of the Dust | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
The Metamorphosis of Earth | Sept 1951 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
The Minotaur's Brother | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
A Misadventure of Don Juan | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
Mnemoka | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
The Monster of the Prophecy | Jan 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | also entitled "A Prophecy of Monsters" | ||
Monsters in the Night | Oct 1954 | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | Other Dimensions | |||
The Moon-Spectre | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Moraine | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
Morthylla | May 1953 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Zothique | ||
Mother of Toads | Jul 1938 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Averoigne | original published version | |
The Mummy-Case of Hammen-Tha | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
Murder in the Fourth Dimension | Oct 1930 | Amazing Detective Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
The Music of Death | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and a fragment | ||
The Mysterious Poison | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
The Nameless Offspring | Summer 1932 | The Magazine of Horror (#33) | The Abominations of Yondo | |||
Necromancy in Naat | Jul 1936 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | ||
The Necromantic Tale | Jan 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
Nemesis of the Unfinished | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
Neria | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
A Night in Malnéant | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Out of Space and Time | Averoigne | ||
The Ninth Skeleton | Sept 1928 | Weird Tales[5] | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
The Ocean-World of Alioth | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and a fragment | ||
An Offering to the Moon | Sept 1953 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
Offspring of the Grave | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Opal of Delhi | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | 2 fragments | fragment I fragment II | |
Oriental Tales: The Yogi's Ring | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | ||
The Oracle of Sadoqua | 1979 | The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a fragment | ||
The Other Entity | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
The Parrot | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
The Perfect Woman | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
The Phantoms of the Fire | 1948 | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
Phoenix | 1954 | Time to Come (Farrar, Straus & Young) | Other Dimensions | |||
The Pilgrim of Eternity | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Planet of the Dead | Mar 1932 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | also entitled "The Doom of Antarion" | ||
A Platonic Entanglement | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | |||
The Plutonian Drug | Sept 1934 | Amazing Stories | Lost Worlds | |||
The Point of the Jest | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
Poseidon | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
The Primal City | Nov 1934 | The Fantasy Fan[6] | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
Prince Alcouz and the Magician | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | 2nd version | ||
Prisoners of the Black Dimension | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
The Protean People | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
Queen of the Sabbat | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a synopsis | |
Quest of the Gazolba | Sept 1947 | Weird Tales | a version of "The Voyage of King Euvoran" | |||
The Raja and the Tiger | Feb 1912 | The Black Cat (V17 #5) | Other Dimensions | |||
The Re-Union | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a two-sentence synopsis | ||
The Rebirth of the Flame | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
A Rendezvous in Averoigne | April/May1931 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Averoigne | ||
The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake | Oct 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
The Return of the Sorcerer | Sept 1931 | Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror | Out of Space and Time | was the basis for Rod Serling's Night Gallery 29, (1972) | variant ending | |
The River of Mystery | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Root of Ampoi | Spring 1949 | The Arkham Sampler[7] | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
Sadastor | Jul 1930 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | |||
The Satyr | 1948 | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Averoigne | originally written in 1931 | alternative ending |
The Scarab | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
Schizoid Creator | Nov 1953 | Fantasy Fiction | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
The Second Interment | Jan 1933 | Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror | Out of Space and Time | |||
The Seed from the Sepulchre | Oct 1933 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
Seedling of Mars | Fall 1931 | Wonder Stories Quarterly (Fall) V3 #1 | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
The Seven Geases | Oct 1934 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | note: a geis or geas is a curse in Celtic mythology | |
The Shah's Messenger | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | |||
Shapes of Adamant | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Zothique | a fragment | |
Slaves of the Black Pillar | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis and fragment. Clark's first title was "The Drug from Algol" | ||
A Sojourn in Mercury | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a one-sentence synopsis | ||
Something New | Aug 1924 | 10 Story Book (V23 #6) | Other Dimensions | |||
The Sorceress of Averoigne | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a fragment, also entitled "The Tower of Istarelle" | |
The Spectral Tarn | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Stairs in the Crypt | (unknown) | (unknown) | publication history unknown | |||
A Star-Change | May 1933 | Wonder Stories | Genius Loci and Other Tales | |||
Strange Shadows | Nov 1985 | The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories (11) | three drafts exist, the third with the title "I Am Your Shadow" | |||
The Supernumerary Corpse | Nov 1932 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | synopsis | ||
The Sword of Zagan | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | |||
Symposium of the Gorgon | Oct 1958 | Fantastic Universe Science Fiction (V10 #4) | Tales of Science and Sorcery | |||
A Tale of Gnydron | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros | Nov 1931 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Hyperborea | ||
The Tale of Sir John Maundeville | Oct 1933 | The Fantasy Fan | Other Dimensions | |||
The Testament of Athammaus | Oct 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Hyperborea | unpublished synopsis | |
The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles | Mar 1958 | Saturn Science Fiction and Fantasy (V1 #5) | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Hyperborea | ||
The Thing from the Antarctic | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Third Episode of Vathek | Summer 1937 | Leaves (Summer) | The Abominations of Yondo | a fragment by William Beckford completed by Smith | ||
Thirteen Phantasms | Mar 1936 | Fantasy Magazine | Other Dimensions | |||
Told in the Desert | 1964 | Over the Edge : Stories to Freeze Your Blood | Other Dimensions | |||
The Tomb-Spawn | May 1934 | Weird Tales | Tales of Science and Sorcery | Zothique | ||
The Transformation of Athanor | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Treader of the Dust | Aug 1935 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | |||
The Trilithon | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
Ubbo-Sathla | Jul 1933 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Hyperborea | see Clark Ashton Smith deities | unpublished synopsis |
The Uncharted Isle | Nov 1930 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | |||
Unquiet Boundary | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
untitled fragment ("I then dismissed the matter...") | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | ||
The Vapor from the Void | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis | May 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Aihai (Mars) | abridged version unpublished synopsis | |
The Venus of Azombeii | June 1931 | Weird Tales | Other Dimensions | |||
The Vestibule of the Past | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
A Vintage from Atlantis | 1960 | The Abominations of Yondo | The Abominations of Yondo | Poseidonis | written in 1933 | unpublished synopsis |
Vizaphmal in Ophiuchus | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
The Voyage of King Euvoran | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | The Abominations of Yondo | Zothique | published in Weird Tales Sept 1947 (abridged) as "The Quest of the Gazolba" | |
A Voyage to Sfanomoë | Aug 1931 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Poseidonis | ||
Vulthoom | Sept 1935 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Aihai (Mars) | also exists as a synopsis. see Clark Ashton Smith deities. | synopsis version |
The Weaver in the Vault | Jan 1934 | Weird Tales | Genius Loci and Other Tales | Zothique | ||
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan | Jun 1932 | Weird Tales | Out of Space and Time | Hyperborea | also exists as a synopsis | synopsis version |
The Werewolf of Averoigne | Nov 1984 | Untold Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Crypt of Cthulhu, #27) | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Averoigne | a synopsis | |
When the Earth Trembled | 2004 | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | The Sword of Zagan And Other Writings | a fragment | ||
The White Sybil | 1935 | The White Sybil | The Abominations of Yondo | Hyperborea | ||
The Willow Landscape | 1933 | The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies | Genius Loci and Other Tales | written in 1931 | ||
Wingless Phoenix | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a fragment | ||
The Witchcraft of Ulua | Feb 1934 | Weird Tales | The Abominations of Yondo | Zothique | ||
The World-Maker | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
Xeethra | Dec 1934 | Weird Tales | Lost Worlds | Zothique | ||
The Youngest Vampire | 1989 | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | a synopsis | ||
Prose Poems
Title | Date written/published | 1st published in | Anthologized in | Fictional setting | First line | Notes | Online versions |
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The Abomination of Desolation | Dec 18, 1929 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | see "The Desolation of Soom" | |||
The Black Lake | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In a land where weirdness and mystery had strongly leagued themselves with eternal desolation, the lake was out-poured at an undiscoverable date of elder aeons,… | |||
The Caravan | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | My dreams are like a caravan that departed long ago, with tumult of intrepid banners and spears, and the clamour of bugles and brave, adventurous… | |||
Chinoiserie | 1960 | The Abominations of Yondo (1960) | The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Ling Yang, the poet, sits all day in his hut among the willows by the river-side, and dreams of the Lady Moy. Spring and the… | |||
The City of Destruction | 1948 | Arkham Sampler (Winter) V1 #1, (1948) | Selected Poems, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The city is surrounded with ramparts like a mountain-range… | a prose version of "The City of Destruction", after Smith's unfinished poem of that name; a fragment | ||
The Corpse and the Skeleton | Apr 15, 1915 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Scene: The catacombs of the ancient city of Oomal. A new corpse has been deposited alongside a skeleton, which, from its mouldiness and worm-picked appearance,… | |||
The Crystals | Jul 2, 1914 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Raptly as one who would divine the perilous eyes of Sleep, and the dreams and mysteries which lurk therein, I sought to fathom the gulf-enclosing… | |||
The Days | 1973 | Grotesques and Fantastiques: A Selection of Previously Unpublished Drawings and Poems (1973) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988), Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith (1989) | O Fairest, O dearest, to what shall I liken thy days? Methinks are as precious gems, as pearls and amethysts, which, from a broken string,… | |||
The Demon, the Angel, and Beauty | c. May 1913 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Of the Demon who standeth or walketh always with me at my left hand, I asked: Hast thou seen Beauty? Her that meseemeth was the… | |||
The Desolation of Soom | Oct 1971 | Hyperborea (20 Oct 1971) | The desert of Soom is said to lie at the world's unchartable extreme, between the lands that are little known and those that are scarcely… | also entitled "The Abomination of Desolation"; originally titled "The Horror of Soom" | |||
A Dream of Lethe | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In the quest of her whom I had lost, I came at length to the shores of Lethe, under the vault of an immense, empty,… | |||
Ennui (In) | Feb 26, 1918 | Selected Poems (1971) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In the alcove whose curtains are cloth-of-gold, and whose pillars are fluted sapphire, reclines the emperor Chan, on his couch of ebony set with opals… | |||
The Flower Devil | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In a basin of porphyry, at the summit of a pillar of serpentine, the thing has existed from primeval time, in the garden of the… | |||
The Forbidden Forest | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The child Natha lived with his father and mother in a little house not far from the verge of the great jungle. Every day he… | |||
From the Crypts of Memory | 1922 | Bohemia V2 #3, (Apr 1917), Ebony and Crystal, Auburn Journal (1922) | Out of Space and Time, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Aeons of aeons ago, in an epoch whose marvelous worlds have crumbled, and whose mighty suns are less than shadow, I dwelt in a star… | two versions | ||
The Frozen Waterfall | 1988 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | I returned on a winter day to the mountain stream, upon whose banks we roamed so long ago when the rich azaleas leaned above it… | |||
The Garden and the Tomb | Jun 9, 1915 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I know a garden of flowers-flowers lovely and marvellous and multiform as the orchids of far, exotic worlds-as the flowers of manifold petal, whose colours… | |||
The Image of Bronze and the Image of Iron | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In the temple of the city of Morm, which lies between the desert and the sea, are two images of thegod Amanon,- a bronze image… | unfinished | ||
Images | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922), Auburn Journal, (19 Jul 1923) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Thy tears are not as mine: Thou weepest as a green fountain among palms and roses, with lightly falling drops that bedew the flowery turf.… | |||
In Cocaigne | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922), Auburn Journal, (19 Jul 1923) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | It was a windless afternoon of April, beneath skies that were tender as the smile of love, when we went forth, you and I, to… | |||
The Lake of Enchanted Silence | 1988 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | It lies with in a land that is only seen by the sun and the moon and the horizon-questing stars. The sky-wrestled mountains, like sentries… | |||
The Land of Fruitful Palms | 1988 and 1989 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | It is a land of fruitful palms and flowering myrtles, with winds that are gentle as the sighs of woman, and pearling fountains delicious as… | untitled fragment | ||
The Litany of the Seven Kisses | Apr 13, 1921 | Ebony and Crystal (1922), Laughing Horse #6, (1923) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I kiss thy hands-thy hands. whose fingers are delicate and the pale as the petals of the white lotus. | |||
The Lotus and the Moon | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I stood with my beloved in the lotus pool, when the moon was round as the great ivory breast of a Titaness, and the flowers… | |||
The Memnons of the Night | Feb 1917 | Bohemia V2 #1, (1 Feb 1917), Ebony and Crystal, Auburn Journal (1922), Phantagraph V4 #2, (Dec 1935) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Ringed with a bronze horizon, which, at a point immensely remote, seems welded with the blue brilliance of a sky of steel, they oppose the… | |||
The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony | 1960 | The Abominations of Yondo (1960) | The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | From the nethermost profound of slumber, from a gulf beyond the sun and stars that illume the Lethean shoals and the vague lands of somnolent… | |||
The Mithridate | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | The world has a thousand poisons, thin or potent, honey-like or nauseous, quick or languid, corrosive and deadly, or captious and deceptive and narcotic. There… | |||
The Mortuary | 1971 | The Mortuary, Roy A. Squires (1971) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | I sought the cloister of the dead, when, fallen athwart the funereal glooms of yew and cypress, the sunset wrought a phantom flush upon the… | |||
The Muse of Atlantis | 1973 | Poseidonis (1973) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Poseidonis | Will you not join me in Atlantis, where we will go down through streets of blue and yellow marble to the wharves of orichalch, and… | also entitled "From a Letter" | version "from a letter" |
The Muse of Hyperborea | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Hyperborea | Too far away is her wan and mortal face, and too remote are the snows of her lethal breast, for mine eyes to behold them… | ||
Narcissus | 1965 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Splenetic, pale Narcissus, in the green dead depth of some rotting pool: thou seest thine image drown and re-emmerge, beneath the shifting iridescence of corruption,… | |||
Offering | March 12, 1928 | Grotesques and Fantastiques: A Selection of Previously Unpublished Drawings and Poems (1973) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | Hast thou desired to love wherein the fervor of the mountain flames of autumn is mingled with all the tenderness of half-unfolded… | |||
The Osprey and the Shark | December 18, 1929 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | An osprey who had sighted a plump turbot glided to the surface of the waves; and at that very same moment a… | |||
The Passing of Aphrodite | Dec 1934 | The Fantasy Fan V2 #4, (Dec 1934), Acolyte (Summer) V1 #4, (1943) | The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | In all the lands of Illarion, from mountain-valleys rimmed with unmelting snow, to the great cliffs of sand whose reflex darkens a sleepy, tepid sea,… | |||
The Peril That Lurks Among Ruins | 1945 | Acolyte (Winter) V1 #2, (1945) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Go not too often among ruins, said the Daemon in one of his... | two versions | ||
A Phantasy | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I have dreamt of an unknown land-a land remote in ulterior time, and alien space not ascertainable; the desert of a long-completed past, upon which… | |||
Preference | 1988 | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry (1988) | Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry, Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith | I would rather look upon thy face than upon the gardens of Atlantis, in the setting of a hyacinthine sun than necromancers have summoned.I would… | |||
The Princess Almeena | Feb 1920 | Smart Set V61 #1, (Feb 1920), Ebony and Crystal, Auburn Journal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | From her balcony of pearl, the princess Almeena, clad in a gown of irisated silk, with her long and sable locks unbound, gazes toward the… | |||
Remoteness | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | There are days when all the beauty of the world is dim and strange; when the sunlight about me seems to fall on a land… | |||
The Shadows | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Out of Space and Time, Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | There were many shadows in the palace of Augusthes, About the silver throne that had blackened beneath the invisible passing of ages, they fell from… | |||
The Statue of Silence | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I saw a statue, carven I knew not of what substance, nor with what form or feature, because of the manifold draper of black which… | |||
The Sun and the Sepulchre | Jun 22 c.1914-15 | California Poets (1932) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | I saw the declivous latter sunlight fall and glitter upon the sepulchre of one whose immomentous name was holden awhile from Oblivion by the deeply-trenched… | |||
To the Daemon | Dec 16, 1929 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Tell me many tales, O benign maleficent daemon, but tell me none that I have ever heard or have even dreamt of otherwise than obscurely… | |||
The Touch-Stone | Dec 18, 1929 | Poems in Prose (1965) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Nasiphra the philosopher had sought through many years and in many lands for the fabled touch-stone, which was said to reveal the true nature of… | |||
Traveller | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Stranger, where goest thou, in the sad raiment of a pilgrim, with shattered sandals retaining the dustand mire of so many devious ways? With thy… | |||
Vignettes | 1922 | Ebony and Crystal (1922) | Poems in Prose, Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry | Surely, beyond the mountains there is peace-beyond the mountains that lie so blue and still at the world's extreme. Such ancient calm, such infinite quietude… | |||
Novel
- The Black Diamonds
Plays
- The Dead will Cuckold You: A Drama in Six Acts (in verse). Written in 1951. First published in 1989.
- The Fugitives: a fragment. Written on September 17, 1922. Published in 1989.
- Venus And The Priest: a fragment. Published in 1989.
Lyrics
- The Dream Bridge: Music by Henry Cowell, words by Clark Ashton Smith. Written c. 1920.
- Impression: Music by Joseph W. Grant, words by Clark Ashton Smith.
- White Death: Music by Henry Cowell, words by Clark Ashton Smith. Written in Sept 1915.
Poetry
Poems (including translations)[9] by Clark Ashton Smith:
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See also
- As It Is Written - a novel mistakenly republished under Smith's name
References
- ↑ Titles, dates and media of initial publication for some works are based on the copyright notice in Lost Worlds (Bison Books edition, 2006, ISBN 0-8032-9351-8). For other works, this information is based on the bibliography established by www.eldritchdark.com or, as indicated by footnotes, by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) ISFDB bibliography.
- ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ↑ Titles, dates and media of initial publication based on the bibliography established by www.eldritchdark.com.
- ↑ Titles and dates based on the bibliography established by www.eldritchdark.com.
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