“The Plutonian Drug is, in my opinion, among my best in the genie of science-fiction. For one thing, it is the sort of tale that… ”
Account of an Actual Dream - 1912
“I dreamt that the sun rose in the West, shortly after its usual setting. Its orb was strangely small, and red like a coal; and… ”
Argument of 'The Hashish-Eater'
“By some exaltation and expansion of cosmic consciousness, rather than a mere drug, used here as a symbol, the dreamer is carried to a height… ”
“The term atmosphere, in application to fiction, is often used in a somewhat vague or restricted sense. I believe that it can be most profitably… ”
An Autobiography of Clark Ashton Smith
“I was born on January 13th, 1893, in Long Valley, California, of English and Yankee parentage. Most of my formal education was received at the… ”
“To introduce this story, the marvelous sequel to "The City of the Singing Flame," we can do no better than to quote in full Mr.… ”
The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
“Awestruck we entered a high-vaulted, endless corridor of polished bone-white marble veined exquisitely with blood. From some distant alcove a sagacious voice chanted the chronicles… ”
“The Black Book is the notebook or commonplace book used by Clark Ashton Smith for a period of about thirty years from about 1929 to… ”
“Ignited in the rich and multi-hued Antarean dusk, the tip of the space pilot's cigarette began to glow and foulder like the small scarlet eye… ”
Clark Ashton Smith - An Autobiographette
“I am inclined to think that my life is a pretty good exemplification of the theories propounded by Lester Anderson in his interesting and provocative… ”
Clark Ashton Smith's Column: Unpopular Sayings
“Truth, like a coin, has an obverse and a reverse side. One is a platitude, the other a paradox.One cannot tell a woman's age by… ”
A Cosmic Novel: 'The Web of Easter Island'
“This first novel by Donald Wandrei is embued throughout with the same unique qualities of cosmic imagination that distinguished The Red Brain, Earth Minus, Finality… ”
The Decline of Civilization: A note on 'The Dark Age'
“"The Dark Age" was written to illustrate how easily scientific knowledge and its resultant inventions could be lost to the human race following the complete… ”
“About 1918 I was in ill health and, during a short visit to San Francisco, was sitting one day in the Bohemian Club, to which… ”
“Paradoxes reveal the natural perversity of Truth.A weeping woman, and the devil in sack-cloth and ashes, are both irresistable.Hell is the only place where hypocrisy… ”
“The commonest and gravest error of modernity lies in believing that antiquity is dead.The forms and themes of poetry do not become outworn or exhausted.… ”
“I have filled out the "style-sheet" with such annotations and details concerning Tsathoggua as I am at present able to furnish. Some of these have… ”
“I should like to point out a few considerations which, apparently, have been overlooked by Mr. Julian Gray in his thoughtful and well-written criticism of… ”
The Favorite Weird Stories of C. A. Smith
“(Courtesy of H. Koenig)"The Yellow Sign" by Chambers
"The House of Sounds" by Shiel
"The Willows" by Blackwood
"A View from a Hill" by James
"The Death of Halpin… ”
[Fragment of an essay] (Fragment)
“. . . by lack of finish. A commonplace idea when well told is more acceptable than a brilliant thought poorly expressed.Always go over your… ”
George Sterling - An Appreciation
“Among the various literary fervors and enthusiasms of my early youth, there are two that have not faded as such things most often fade, but… ”
George Sterling: Poet and Friend
“My sixteen years' friendship and correspondence with George Sterling began, like so many human relationships, through another friendship. In 1911, when I had reached the… ”
“Only the hottest of controversies will be printed in this column—radical arguments that will bring your blood to "The Boiling Point." We start this department… ”
In Appreciation of William Hope Hodgson
“Among those fiction writers who have elected to deal with the shadowlands and borderlands of human existence, William Hope Hodgson surely merits a place with… ”
“Howard Phillips Lovecraft passed away on March 15th, after a month of painful illness. His death will be a personal bereavement to all lovers of… ”
Introduction to 'Shadows of Wings'
“A book of poems by Susan Myra GregorySusan Myra Gregory is of the true lineage of Sappho, which is not to say that her poems… ”
Introduction to 'Wine of Wonder'
“A book of poems by Lilith LorraineThe summer lightning of fantasy, the storm-piercing levin of imagination, illume these superbly wrought poems. Lilith Lorraine, poet and… ”
“We have been told that literature dealing with the imaginative and fantastic is out of favour among the Intellectuals, whoever they are. Only the Real,… ”
“I should like to say a few words anent one or two points which P. Schuyler Miller raises in his interesting letter in the June… ”
“I have worked entirely on carving since December, and so far have turned out about twenty-six new pieces. Only a few of these are grotesques,… ”
“I am profoundly saddened by the news of H. P. Lovecraft's death after a month of painful illness. The loss seems an intolerable one, and… ”
“Perhaps by this time you will have heard the sad news of Lovecraft's passing. He died on Monday morning, March 15th, from gastro-intestinal and kidney… ”
“I have read the symposium on science-fiction the Winter 1949 issue with great interest. Since you have summed up so ably in your editorial the… ”
On Tales About the Cthulhu Mythos
“As to the Cthulhu Mythos, I believe I added as much to it as I borrowed. Tsathoggua and the Book of Eibon were my own… ”
“Ephraim Doner's art is revealed through a magic mirror, a mirror deeply installed in his brain, behind the very roots of physical sight. It reflects… ”
“"Necronomicon," "Book of Eibon" etc I am sorry to say, are all fictitious. Lovecraft invented the first, I the second. Howard, I believe, fathered the… ”
The Philosophy of the Weird Tale
“(An extract from The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith)The weird tale is an adumbration or foreshadowing of man's relationship—past, present, and future—to the unknown… ”
“In writing fantastic science tales, two themes have attracted me more than others, and have seemed to offer the amplest possibilities and the deepest stimulus… ”
The Psychology of the Horror Story
“Mr. Lovecraft has stated very lucidly and succinctly the essential value and validity of the horror story as literary art, and there is no need… ”
“Mr. Miller's very able and urbane letter in the December issue makes me feel that my own recent letter on the problem of realism versus… ”
Review of Marianne Moore's 'Nevertheless'
“The six pieces in this tiny volume, written by a winner of numerous prize-awards, impress the present viewer as being fairly mild examples of modernist… ”
“The main objective of the short story is to stir the reader's emotions. How you stir them or what emotion you stir is not so… ”
The Tale of Macrocosmic Horror
“I have read with much interest the fine letter from A. Lewis in the "Cauldron."Mr. Lewis, in laying down rules for the development of the… ”
“The Maker of Gargoyles
Beyond the Singing Flame
The Vapor from the Void
The Vaults of ^Yoh-Vombis^ [Abomi]
The After-Men
The Tenth Planet
The Book of Xhon Mezzamalech
The White Sybil of… ”
Unpublished Revisions to 'The Dimension of Chance'
“In late July or early August 1932, Wonder Stories editor David Lasser suggested to Clark Ashton Smith that he compose a story involving the notion… ”
“A letter from Clark Ashton Smith contains an interesting thumbnail essay on the validity of weird stories, which we are passing on to you. Mr.… ”
“The four books of short stories written by Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton College, have been collected in a single but not overly bulky… ”
Where Fantasy Meets Science Fiction
“I have purchased many of the issues of your magazine, and have read everything in them, including the letter columns, with great interest. I have… ”
Why I Selected: 'The Uncharted Isle'
“Although better known for my writings in the fantasy field, I have at different times turned out what is called the straight science fiction story.… ”
Horror Classics: Graphic Classics Vol. Ten
Includes - The Beast of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith. $10 - for 140 pages of amazing illustrations it really is a bargin Eureka Productions.