Clark Ashton Smith - The Eldritch Dark

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Web Name: Clark Ashton Smith - The Eldritch Dark

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Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961), perhaps best known today for his association with H.P Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, is in his own right a unique master of fantasy, horror and science-fiction. Highly imaginative, his genre-spanning visions of worlds beyond, combined with his profound understanding of the English language, have inspired an ever -increasing legion of fans and admirers.For most of his life, he lived in physical and intellectual isolation in Auburn, California (USA). Predominantly self-educated with no formal education after grammar school, Smith wore out his local library and delved so deeply into the dictionary that his richly embellished, yet precise, prose leaves one with the sense that they are in the company of a true master of language.Though Smith primarily considered himself a poet, having turned to prose for the meager financial sum it rewarded, his prose might best be appreciated as a "fleshed" out poetry. In this light, plot and characters are subservient to the milieu of work: a setting of cold quiet reality, which, mixed with the erotic and the exotic, places his work within its own unique, phantasmagoric genre. While he also experimented in painting, sculpture, and translation, it is in his written work that his legacy persists.During his lifetime, Smith's work appeared commonly in the pulps alongside other masters such H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and E. Hoffmann Price and like many great artists, recognition and appreciation have come posthumously. In recent decades though, a resurgence of interest in his works has lead to numerous reprintings as well as scholarly critiques.The Eldritch Dark is a site to facilitate both scholars and fans in their appreciation and study of Clark Ashton Smith and his works.Last 5 Eldritch Words Discussion Forum posts:Re: Buchan’s Witch Wood 14 Oct, 2020 7:56AM by Minicthulhu“"Witch Wood" is one of the books on my shelf I want to read but there always seems to be something more interesting, more inviting to read, so God only knows if I ever get to reading it ...… ”Re: August Derleth 14 Oct, 2020 4:31AM by Knygatin“"The Return of Hastur" actually got several suggestions from Lovecraft, which were incorporated, so it may qualify among the revisions.… ”Re: August Derleth 13 Oct, 2020 10:10PM by Knygatin“Martinus Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> > The Watchers out of Time is limited to "posthumous> collaborations" with Lovecraft.Ah, now I see - unless I am mistaken again - the stories in The Mask of Cthulhu and The Trail of Cthulhu were not collaborations, but all of them Derleth's own. I hadn't made that distinction before, but thought of… ”Re: August Derleth 13 Oct, 2020 10:02AM by Knygatin“Martinus Wrote:------------------------------------------------------- > The Watchers out of Time is limited to "posthumous> collaborations" with Lovecraft.I thought all of the Cthulhu mythos collaborations were in fact made after Lovecraft's death.Also, by the way, most of the stories in The Watchers Out of Time had been printed earlier in other collections.… ”Re: August Derleth 13 Oct, 2020 6:32AM by Martinus“Knygatin Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Is there a difference in quality, or in separate> subject category, between the stories found in the> early collection The Mask of Cthulhu and the later> omnibus collection The Watchers Out of Time? There> is no overlap. > Neither did the story "The Trail of Cthulhu" (or> any of its sequels) find its… ”Top of Page

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