This was a really solid collection of weird poetry! My favorites were The Morning Pool, Ode to Music, The Maze of Sleep, The Masque of Forsaken Gods, and A Live-Oak Leaf. I particularly loved Smith's use of imagery, rhythm, and rhyme.
Clark Ashton Smith is a name that exists at the periphery of science fiction and fantasy lore, a name often evoked but rarely read. He is sometimes dismissed as an imitator of Lovecraft; at other times, as a writer whose exotic, hot-house prose often carried him away from his subjects. Yet the title...
I've spoken before about the constant invention and reinvention of the 'Mystical East' in Western fiction, but by and large, the reason authors do this isn't to malign the East, or to produce propaganda--these are just the secondary results--indeed, it isn't really about the East at all, it's about ...
This last volume in the Collected Fantasies loses a point for the weakness in Smith's latter tales, especially those after the early 1930's. It is clear that Smith just didn't have the spark anymore once he was not financially bound to getting stories published. A strange situation, opposite probabl...
Czarodzieje są postaciami, które fascynują od lat. Sam jestem ich wielkim miłośnikiem. Lubię poznawać zasady działania magii w różnych uniwersach i wymyślać własne w procesie światotworzenia, którym hybbystycznie się zajmuję. Nic więc dziwnego, ze sięgnąłem do antologii opowiadań powiązanych z różne...
I'll definitely be checking out more Harlan Ellison!Paladin of the Lost Hour - Harlan Ellison ★★★★★The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule - Lucius Shepard ★★★★½Audience - Jack Womack ★★★★½Nets of Silver and Gold - James P. Blaylock ★★★★The Phantasma of Q_______ - Lisa Goldstein ★★★★Lady of the Skull...
In a mix of urban fantasy and horror these are short shorts with an average of 6 pages per story some are longer and some are shorter. They're a good mix and I enjoyed most of them.
Definitely glad I picked it up, but I have a bit of trouble giving it more than three stars--this is a must-read for any completist, but I found about half the stories to be fairly rocky.
Ohgod it has "The Events at Poroth Farm" I must possess this must must must----carry on. ========8/9/2012 - copy finally came in at Perfect Books. Am amused to notice how many of the contents I have already read, but perfectly happy with this regardless.
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