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Contributors
Steve Behrends discovered Clark Ashton Smith during the Fantasy Boom of the 1970s. Several trips to inspect the Smith Papers at Brown University’s John Hay Library eventually led to several projects, culminating in Strange Shadows (1989). The Reader’s Guide was originally to be written with Douglas A. Anderson ( The Annotated Hobbit), but circumstances necessitated a solo performance; it was written alongside a Ph.D. thesis in experimental particle physics. A pioneer in Clark Ashton Smith studies, he is most proud of the “Unexpurgated Clark Ashton Smith” series, and is grateful to Necronomicon Press’s Marc Michaud and artist Bob Knox, his
“Athos and Porthos,” for their encouragement. He has also written studies of
Donald Wandrei and Darrell Schweitzer. He currently works as a Research Fellow
in High Energy Physics.
James Blish (1921–1975), while best known as an author of seminal science fiction novels ( A Case of Conscience, Cities in Flight, Black Easter, The Day After Judgment), was also a scholar of classical literature, scientist (degree in biology), musicologist, historical novelist ( Dr. Mirabilis), playwright, critic, and poet. During the decade when he was at the top of his creative form, roughly 1949 to 1959, Blish produced a remarkable body of work that contributed a great deal to the definition of
American magazine science fiction. Under the pseudonym William Atheling, Jr., he wrote two volumes of seminal science fiction criticism, The Issue at Hand (1964) and More Issues at Hand (1970).
Carl Jay Buchanan was Associate Editor of English at the University of Tennessee at Martin, and also taught at schools in Dubai, Turkey, and Cyprus. He was the author of a book of poems, Ripper (University of South Carolina Press, 1999), and a contributor to such publications as Lovecraft Studies, Ghost & Scholars Newsletter, and Extrapolation. He passed away suddenly in 2003.
Fred Chappell teaches advanced composition, poetry, and fiction at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro, and also writes about poetry every month as a News & Observer book columnist. He has written fourteen books of verse, two volumes of stories, one of criticism and eight novels. In December 1997, Governor
Jim Hunt appointed Chappell to the post of Poet Laureate of North Carolina. He
was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story in 1994 for “The
Lodger.”
Dan Clore has appeared in such publications as Lovecraft Studies, Studies in Weird Fiction, and Necrofile, and is the author of a collection of short stories, The Unspeakable and Others (2001).
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Scott Connors received his B.A. in English and History from Washington and Jef-ferson College and also studied at the University of Salzburg. He has written for such publications as Nyctalops, Fantasy Crossroads, Lovecraft Studies, Studies in Weird Fiction, Faunus, Wormwood, The Explicator, Publishers Weekly, Weird Tales, the anthology The Barbaric Triumph, and Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia. He is the editor of H. P. Lovecraft’s Science Versus Charlatanry (with S. T. Joshi) and A Century Less a Dream: Selected Criticism on H. P. Lovecraft. With Ronald S. Hilger, he is editing a new edition of Smith’s short fiction, and is also writing a critical biography of Smith.
Stefan Dziemianowicz is the author of the definitive study of Unknown Worlds.
He has edited numerous anthologies, including The Rivals of Weird Tales and Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors, and was coeditor of Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction.
His articles and reviews have appeared in Lovecraft Studies, Studies in Weird Fiction, Crypt of Cthulhu, Publishers Weekly, and S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz’s critical anthology An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H. P.
Lovecraft (Fairleigh Dickinson University Presses, 1991). He and Joshi also edited the monumental Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia.
Phillip A. Ellis is a poet and scholar who is working on a concordance of Clark Ashton Smith’s poetry. He is currently involved in bibliographic projects relating to Arthur Machen and Christopher Brennan. He is a citizen of Australia and is
studying English, concentrating upon poetry, as an external student.
John Kipling Hitz teaches English in Kentucky. His articles have appeared in Lovecraft Studies and Studies in Weird Fiction.
Peter H. Goodrich is professor of English and assistant department head at the University of Northern Michigan. He specializes in Arthurian romances and is the author of The Romance of Merlin (Garland, 1991) and is editor of Merlin: A Casebook (Garland, forthcoming).
Lauric Guillard teaches American literature and civilization at the University of Nantes, France. His Ph.D. dissertation was on Le Thème du monde perdu dans la littérature de langue anglaise, 1864–1933. His books include L’Aventure mysterieuse de Poe à Merritt (Liege 1993), Mondes perdus (Paris, 1993), Atlantides: Les Iles englouties (Paris, 1995), and L’Eternel Deluge: Voyage dans les littératures atlantidiennes (Paris, 2001).
Ronald S. Hilger lives in Grass Valley, California, not far from Smith’s home in Auburn. A longtime admirer of Smith’s work, he was largely responsible for the
dedication of a plaque honoring Smith at Auburn’s Centennial Park, and organized a conference in 1993 devoted to the Smith Centennial Celebration. He edited The Averoigne Chronicles (forthcoming from Donald M. Grant) and recovered the manuscript for Smith’s story “The Red World of Polaris,” long believed to have been lost. With Scott Connors he edited Smith’s collections Red World of Polaris and Star Changes, and is at work on a new edition of Smith’s fiction for Night Shade. He is coeditor of the journal Lost Worlds.
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S. T. Joshi received his A.B. and A.M. degrees from Brown University and is former senior editor of the literary criticism division at Chelsea House Publishers. He is currently a freelance editor and author. Best known for his groundbreaking work on H. P. Lovecraft, he has also edited collections of the work of Ambrose Bierce and H. L. Mencken and is the author of The Weird Tale (1990), H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), and God’s Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong (2003). With Stefan Dziemianowicz, he edited the three-volume Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia, published by Greenwood Press in 2005. He has edited or coedited several collections of Smith’s work, including Nostalgia of the Unknown, the juvenile novel The Black Diamonds, The Last Oblivion, and Shadow of the Unattained (Smith’s correspondence with George Sterling), as well as Sterling’s The Thirst of Satan and From Baltimore to Bohemia, the collected correspondence between Sterling and Mencken..
Jim Rockhill has been an avid reader of supernatural fiction si
nce the age of eleven.
He has edited the complete supernatural fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu for Ash-Tree Press (2002–04) and Bob Leman for Midnight House (2002), served as coeditor to Jane Rice’s collected weird tales for Midnight House (2003), and assisted with many other volumes, including Battered Silicon Dispatch Box’s compilation of the complete adventures of Seabury Quinn’s occult detective, Jules de Grandin (2001).
His reviews and articles appear in Supernatural Fiction of the World: An Encyclopedia, the journals All Hallows and Lost Worlds, and on the websites “Robert Aickman—An Appreciation” and “The Weird Review.” His fiction has begun to appear in the journal Supernatural Tales and the Darkside anthology series from Roc.
S. J. Sackett was Professor of English at Fort Hays University, Hays, Kansas. A longtime science fiction fan and writer, he visited Smith in the late 1940s. He currently enjoys retirement in Thailand.
Donald Sidney-Fryer, poet and performing artist, is the last in the great line of Californian Romantics (Ambrose Bierce, George Sterling, Nora May French, and Clark
Ashton Smith). A pupil of Clark Ashton Smith, Sidney-Fryer has edited The Selected Poems of Clark Ashton Smith as well as the Smith story collections Other Dimensions, The City of the Singing Flame, The Monster of the Prophecy, and The Last Incantation. Sidney-Fryer also assembled the mordant horror and fantasy poetry of Ambrose Bierce under the title A Vision of Doom. He compiled the first full-length bibliography of Clark Ashton Smith, Emperor of Dreams, and his own first collection of verse, Songs and Sonnets Atlantean, was the final book to appear from Arkham House under the personal supervision of August Derleth, one of the cofounders.
Brian Stableford teaches creative writing at University College, Winchester, and has also lectured in sociology at Reading University. He has published more than 50
novels and 200 short stories as well as numerous nonfiction books and translations from the French. Stableford has completed postgraduate work in biology and sociology and received a Ph.D. for his thesis “The Sociology of Science Fiction.” He is the author of Scientific Romance in Britain 1890–1950 (1985), and he is currently working
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on a 400,000-word volume for Routledge entitled Science Fact and Fiction: An Encyclopedia. His scholarship has been recognized by the J. Lloyd Eaton Award (1987), the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (1987), the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pioneer Award (1996), and the SFRA’s Science Fiction Research Association’s Pilgrim Award (1999).
Steven Tompkins grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, and now lives in New York City. He contributed to Wandering Star’s The Illustrated Worlds of Robert E.
Howard and Don Herron’s critical anthology The Barbaric Triumph, both 2004 publications. He edited The Black Stranger and Other American Tales, a collection of Robert E. Howard’s New World heroic fantasy and horror stories published in 2005 by
Bison Books, an imprint of The University of Nebraska Press.
Charles K. Wolfe was Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. He edited Planets and Dimensions: Collected Essays on Clark Ashton Smith in 1973. He was the author of numerous books on American folk and popular music and had written more than a hundred articles, published in such collections as The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Journal of American Folklore, and The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. He was nominated three times for a Grammy Award for his album liner notes and twice won the ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award.
He passed away early in 2006.
Acknowledgements
“The Centaur” copyright © 1958 by Clark Ashton Smith for Spells and Philtres (Arkham House) . Reprinted by permission of Arkham House Publishers Inc. and CASiana Literary Enterprises.
Vachel Lindsay’s letter to Clark Ashton Smith is courtesy of the manuscript pro-prietor, Special Collections of the University of Iowa Library.
Edwin Markham’s letter to Clark Ashton Smith is courtesy of John Hay Library,
Brown University.
The excerpt of Lovecraft’s letter to F. Lee Baldwin is courtesy of the estate of H. P. Lovecraft and John Hay Library, Brown University.
“Klarkash-Ton and ‘Greek’” is original to this collection and is copyright © 2006
by Donald Sidney-Fryer.
“Eblis in Bakelite” first appeared in Tumbrils 2 (June 1945), and is provided by courtesy of Don Herron.
“James Blish Versus Clark Ashton Smith” copyright © 2004 by Seele Brennt Pub-
lications for Lost Worlds 1. Reprinted by permission of Donald Sidney-Fryer.
“The Last Romantic” first appeared in Fantasy Sampler (June 1956). Reprinted by permission of S. J. Sackett.
“Communicable Mysteries” copyright © 2005 by Seele Brennt Publications for
Lost Worlds 2. Reprinted by permission of Fred Chappell.
“What Happens in The Hashish-Eater?” copyright © 1993 by Necronomicon Press for The Dark Eidolon no. 3 (Winter 1993). Reprinted by permission of S. T. Joshi.
“The Babel of Visions” copyright © 1996 by Necronomicon Press for Studies in Weird Fiction 18 (Winter 1996). Reprinted by permission of Dan Clore.
“Clark Ashton Smith’s ‘Nero’” copyright © 2001 by Carl Jay Buchanan. Reprinted
by permission of the late Carl Jay Buchanan.
“Satan Speaks: A Reading of ‘Satan Unrepentant’” is original to this collection and is copyright © 2006 by Phillip A. Ellis.
“Lands Forgotten or Unfound” is original to this collection and is copyright ©
2006 by S. T. Joshi.
“Outside the Human Aquarium” copyright © 1996 by Douglas Robillard for
American Supernatural Fiction From Edith Wharton to the Weird Tales Writers (Garland Publishing, Inc.) . Reprinted by permission of Brian Stableford.
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“Master of the Macabre” copyright © 1996 by Necronomicon Press for Studies in Weird Fiction 19 (Summer 1996). Reprinted by permission of John Kipling Hitz, who revised it for this appearance.
“Gesturing Toward the Infinite” copyright © 2001 by Hippocampus Press for
Studies in Weird Fiction 25 (Summer 2001). Reprinted by permission of Scott Connors, who revised it for this appearance.
“A Note on the Aesthetics of Fantasy” copyright © 1972 by Harry O. Morris and
Edward P. Berglund for Nyctalops 7 (August 1972). Reprinted by permission of the late Charles K. Wolfe.
“Fantasy and Decadence” copyright © 2000 by Paradoxa 5, No. 13–14. Reprinted by permission of Lauric Guillaud.
“Humor in Hyperspace” is original to this collection and is copyright © 2006 by John Kipling Hitz.
“The Song of the Necromancer” copyright © 1986 by Necronomicon Press for
Studies in Weird Fiction 1 (Summer 1986). Reprinted by permission of Steve Behrends.
“Brave World Old and New” copyright © 2004 by Seele Brennt Publications for
Lost Worlds 2. Reprinted by permission of Donald Sidney-Fryer.
“Coming In from the Cold” copyright © 2004 by Seele Brennt Publications for
Studies in Fantasy Literature 1. Reprinted by permission of Steven Tompkins, who revised it for this appearance.
“As Shadows Wait Upon the Sun” is original to this collection and is copyright ©
2006 by Jim Rockhill.
“Sorcerous Style” copyright © 2000 by Paradoxa 5, No. 13–14. Reprinted by permission of Peter H. Goodrich.
“Loss and Recuperation” copyright © 1993 by Necronomicon Press for Studies in Weird Fiction 13 (Summer 1993). Reprinted by permission of Dan Clore.
“Life, Love and the Clemency of Death” copyright © 2004 by Tartarus Press for
Wormwood 2 (Spring 2004). Reprinted by permission of Scott Connors.
“Regarding the Providence Point of View” copyright © 1999 by Mythos Books for
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Crypt of Cthulhu 102 (Lammas 1999). Reprinted by permission of Ronald S. Hilger.
“An Annotated Chronology” copyright © 1984 by Cryptic Publications for Crypt of Cthulhu 26 (Hallowmas 1984). Reprinted by permission of Steve Behrends.
Index
“Abomination of Desolation, The” 144
307, 311
“Abominations of Yondo, The” 20, 67,
“Atlantis” 240–41
147, 157, 338
Auburn Journal 24, 27–28, 58, 64, 66,
Abominations of Yondo, The 74, 88, 139, 148
70n20, 74, 78, 246, 247, 307
Ackerman, Forrest J. 76, 84n1
Auden, W. H. 271
Acolyte 309
Averoigne 7, 61, 69n18, 72, 88, 98, 157,
“Adventure in Futurity, An” 340
158, 162, 171, 174, 225, 279, 286, 293–
After Sunset (Sterling) 17
304, 307, 313, 340
Aickman, Robrt 281
“Averoigne” 86
Aiken, Conrad 95, 97, 191
“Avowal” 255–56
“Albatros, L’” (Baudelaire) 94
Album dit “Zutique” (Rimbaud) 161
Babbitt, Irving 185, 188–89, 191, 192
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll) 197
Baird, Edwin 67
“Alienage” 97
Baldwin, F. Lee 335
Allen, Hervey 325
“Ballad of the Gallows Bird, The” (Mark-
Allen, Robert 131n3
ham) 153
“Amazing Planet, The” 340
Ballantine Books 9, 148, 277, 336
Amazing Stories 150, 190, 195, 199
Balzac, Honoré de 224, 319
American Mercury 153
Barbarese, J. T. 184
“Amithaine” 86, 198
Barker, Eric 252–54, 257
“Amor Hesternalis” 255
Barlow, R. H. 72, 199, 266
Anderson, Sherwood 195
“Barrier, The” 94
“Annabel Lee” (Poe) 53, 172
Barth, John 196
Anubis 257
Barthes, Roland 319–20, 323
“Après-midi d’un faune, L’” (Mallarmé)
Baudelaire, Charles 27, 28, 29, 60, 61,
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