A Vintage from Atlantis is volume 3 of the series. Smith is really hitting his stride by 1931 - 1932. Unlike the earlier two volumes there is hardly a clinker in the entire book. The stories are truly interesting and the plots novel while the endings are not as formulaic as in the past. If you a...
Ah, Clark Ashton Smith. For those of you unfamiliar with this writer imagine someone with the fevered imagination of Lovecraft and the lyrical stylistic chops of Lord Dunsany and you'll get an idea of what you're in for. For my money Smith is perhaps the best of the "Weird Tales Triumvirate" of Love...
I've been looking forward to reading another collection by this author for a while now after being extremely impressed with the first two reprints of the Arkham House collections I read (Out of Space and Time and Lost Worlds). Unfortuantely, Bison haven't yet brought this collection back into print ...
Clark Ashton Smith was one of the three best of the Weird Tales writers, along with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Howard. Smith is nowhere near as famous as the other two, but he was a much better writer. His style is kind of baroque and verbose, with a 19th century lost world orientalist feel. If y...
CAS probably has the richest, most lush prose of any other author of modern fantasy. Sometimes, you feel that his stories are lacking in plot and well rounded characters but that can generally be forgiven if you are willing to slow down your pace of reading and really savour the quality of the prose...
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