Clark Ashton Smith

Weird Tales presents a carefully curated selection of standout stories from the magazine’s golden age. This anthology brings together a wide spectrum of speculative fiction, ranging from mythic fantasy and Gothic mystery to tales of metaphysical horror and existential dread.

This first volume of the series, brings together 25 of Clark Ashton Smith's fantasy stories, written between 1925 and 1930....

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....

This series presents Clark Ashton Smith's fiction chronologically, based on composition rather than publication....

This second volume of the series brings together 20 of Clark Ashton Smith's fantasy stories....

This third volume of the series brings together 21 of Clark Ashton Smith's fantasy stories....

Fifteen nautical nightmares: from the discovery and subsequent investigation of a mysterious vessel in The Derelict, to the terrifying ordeal of a lighthouse keeper stationed at the remote Three Skeleton Key....

A collection of Smith's apace adventure stories featuring Captain Volmar, including the never before published novella, "Red World of Polaris"....

With inhuman solemnity, the voice of the necromancer went on in a priest-like chant until the last echoes died out in hollow, sepulchral vibrations....

Zothique is Earth's last continent in the distant future when the sun has grown dim, the world has grown old, and the remorseless seas have overwhelmed all other continents....

Zothique est le nom d'un continent. Un monde mythique de sortilèges, de prodiges, d'incongruités, de maléfices et de terreurs...

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne.

Before Tiglari, many brave souls had the same noble dream of scaling and crossing through the forbidding palace of Maal Dweb....

Zothique is Earth's last continent in the very distant future when the sun has grown dim, the work has grown old and the remorseless seas have overwhelmed all other continents....

Zothique is Earth's last continent in the very distant future when the sun has grown dim, the work has grown old and the remorseless seas have overwhelmed all other continents....

A blood-curdling tale of darkness, shadows, whispers, and arrows - all with a twist in the end....

Strange and chilling tales of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the surreal...

A grotesque, deadly black form undulated toward them....

The sorcerer Maal Dweb approached the flower women with caution, for he knew that they were vampires....

"The Last Incantation" by Clark Ashton Smith tells the story of Malygris, an aging necromancer who has mastered all forms of magic but is plagued by ennui.