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The Last Hieroglyph

Volume Five of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith

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The Last Hieroglyph

By: Clark Ashton Smith
Narrated by: Chris Kayser, Gregory St. John, William Neenan, Daniel May, Bernard Clark, Fleet Cooper
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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 definitive set of texts.

The Last Hieroglyph includes, in chronological order, all of Clark Ashton Smith's stories from "The Dark Age" to "The Dart of Rasasfa".

©2010 The Estate of Clark Ashton Smith (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Scary Short Story

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The fifth and final volume of definitive versions of Clark Ashton Smith’s dark fantasy and horror stories anthologizes the 29 published prior to his death, including "The Death of Malygirs", "The Tomb-Spawn", "The Last Hieroglyph", "The Threader of the Dust", and "The Black Abbott of Pthuum". The extensive notes, scholarship, and, of course, Smith’s writing itself are performed by different actors, whose individual contributions combine to create layers of appreciation for this master of speculative fiction, the third member of the Weird Tales unholy horror trinity - the other two being H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.
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some of the stories were quite good. a few were not as great most of his other works. definitely worth a listen. especially if you have listened to the previous 4 anthologies.

good, but the best

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Incredible stories, well read by careful narrators. very atmospheric, does justice to Smith"s poetry.

Masterfully done

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If you ever read H.P. Lovecraft - you will enjoy this read. Clark writes well, but a little different from how HPL writes. Very few of Clarks stories succeed in creating the atmosphere of horror which made HPL so famous but I would still highly recommend Clarks writings as the next best thing to HPL.

Great Book!

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this is a great example of clark ashton smith's work. the only reason It is not 5 stars is that it can be a little uneven, which is typical of such collections. well worth the time.

great classic weird fiction! !

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A very good collection. The Zothique and Hyperborea stories are some of my favorite Smith tales.

Several great Zothique stories here

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