Short Stories Tributes to Clark Ashton Smith

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2005

Simon Whitechapel

“High on the plateau he came across the arch, the one remnant, it seemed, of a once great building, temple or palace, in a vanished… ” (30 December)

Dennis L. Siluk

“[September, l909] I'm over fifty, and Shauna, over forty, she's more of the order of being, so-so in her ways than I, so-so meaning, you… ” (8 December)

Dennis L. Siluk

“I became good friends with Nicolai Stein. He was the son of a top chief in Paris, who was quite well off. But soon after… ” (8 December)

Dennis L. Siluk

“"Now that he's alone again—"said Muse Harding.I stopped short of responding, I really didn't want anything to do with old man Beck. My uncle Jeffery… ” (8 December)

Dennis L. Siluk

“Does cold exist? Not really it is simply the absence of heat, or so the inhabitants of Moiromma would say, and have you believe. It… ” (8 December)

Simon Whitechapel

“In the dying days of summer the comet Ngamm re-appeared as the wizard Vrao-Msuhh had prophesied, rising with the Crab to trail its rutilant tresses… ” (8 December)

Dennis L. Siluk

“Aznar—the Demon, goes to Asteroid-Ice Cap to find Jokaneen; he has gathered up information of its inhabitants, as well as Moiromma's existence, and now wishes… ” (8 December)

Dennis L. Siluk

“And so it may be asked by healers how one philosopher gets his immunity to a certain disease, and at what price; and there is… ” (8 December)

Simon Whitechapel

“Évariste Laroche had been destined for some high professorship in a French or German academy, but was orphaned at the age of fifteen when the… ” (29 June)

Susan Denholm

“Down the shrunken river Sangwa to the high-towered city of Aubacor, on a flesh-searing day of high summer, came the wizard Yuudakh, steering a coracle… ” (27 February)

2004

James Ambuehl

“1Although it had been many a month since Satampra Zeiros, master-thief of all Hyperborea had set eyes upon his latest in a long string of… ” (30 July)

James Ambuehl

“1Satampra Zeiros looked back and squinted into the desert sun, staring off into the distance. The dust-clouds billowing high into the sky told him that… ” (30 May)

Joshua Abramsky

“Millennia of civilisation, countless cycles of ease and pomp beneath a lushly warm Miocene sun that still warded Mhu Thulan against the slow white serpents… ” (30 April)

Sam Guisbourne

“In his youth, when the Emperor had visited the far southern province of Gnerrultan, there had been talk of Formigiddan Asphuul acting as assistant guide… ” (31 March)

Frederick J. Mayer

“"Wake-up! Had this dream stopped?..." click. With a morphean thanatoid mind shroud temporarily removed and a simple yawn, Dr. Koh Rei-am turned the machine off… ” (29 February)

Sam Guisbourne

“"Even here my enemy pursues me," the priest Quullaleloth murmured to himself, watching the black sand stir as a fortuitous conjunction of opened doors allowed… ” (28 February)

J. Erik Hall

“Super Bowl Sunday can be a lonely time for a man who has little interest in watching the game. In years past, I would have… ” (30 January)

Robert Gibson

“"It is indeed unfortunate, Dr Royden," said Professor Sherman of the Interplanetary Survey, "that visitors are not at the moment to be allowed to travel… ” (30 January)

2003

Simon Whitechapel

“To slytte, at ye Momente of pæderastick Paroxysme, ye Throate of thy Mounte, pourynge ye Whyle ye steamynge Flux of thy Senna-stimulated Bowelles, this, &… ” (30 November)

Simon Whitechapel

“In the moments since the binding of his hands and feet the faces of the massed rows of spectators, towering towards a sky burning harsh,… ” (30 November)

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