Writings of Clark Ashton Smith parts 7-18

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Episode • Apr 30, 2023 • 52m

The Fantasy Fan Magazine Presents:
Writings of Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith (1893 - 1961)

Collected here are all of Clark Aston Smith's writings he submitted to The Fantasy Fan Magazine. The Fantasy Fan Magazine was a periodical dedicated to people professing their love of and celebrating fantasy and weird fiction. In addition to the opinion pieces and non-fiction articles, The Fantasy Fan also included many short stories and poems by some of the authors it celebrated such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith, a personal favorite of editor Charles D. Hornig. Smith contributed quite a variety of stories, poems and articles to The Fantasy Fan over its two-year tenure. From the weird and creepy journeys to unknown worlds of "The Kingdom of the Worm" and "The Primal City" to the strange and haunting poetry of "A Dream of the Abyss" and "Necromancy" to the insightful essays on M. R. James and fantastic fiction in general, Smith shows the breadth of his writing skill within the pages of this sadly short-lived 'zine.

1 01 - The Kingdom of the Worm20:022 02 - A Dream of the Abyss 02:383 03 - The Ghoul 12:424 04 - The Weird Works of M. R. James 07:355 05 - Revenant 0 2:536 06 - Prose Pastels I. Chinoiserie 02:347 07 - Prose Pastels II. The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony 02:278 08 - Prose Pastels III. The Muse of Hyperborea 02:109 09 - Prose Pastels IV. The Lotus and the Moon 01:3510 10 - Prose Pastels V. The Passing of Aphrodite 06:2111 11 - The Epiphany of Death 12:5212 12 - Necromancy 01:2313 13 - Clark Ashton Smith: An Autiobiographette 01:5614 14 - On Fantasy 04:3115 15 - The Favorite Weird Stories of Clark Ashton Smith 01:0516 16 - The Demonian Face 1:23

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