66–67, 73, 80, 85, 93, 94–95, 96, 97,
Arabian Nights 32, 57, 152, 201, 278, 288,
98, 109, 122, 125, 138, 139, 153, 154,
321, 322
155, 156, 168, 205, 222, 290, 305
Argonaut 53, 60, 129–30
Bear, Greg 267
“Argument of ‘The Hashish-Eater’” 99,
“Beast-Jewel of Mars, The” (Brackett) 269
100, 105, 108, 110
“Beast of Averoigne, The” 158, 174, 285,
Arkham Collector 258n4
295, 297, 301–3, 342
Arkham House 8, 9, 32, 61, 72, 74, 86, 88,
Beatles, The 274
148, 153, 177, 250, 251, 252, 257, 307
Beckford, William 72, 168, 278, 305
Arnold, Matthew 188, 283
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell 282
“Arria Marcella” (Gautier) 158
Behrends, Steve 9, 106–7, 148, 170, 172,
Arts and Decoration 27
224, 260, 261, 277, 283, 293, 294, 300,
“Asharia: A Tale of the Lost Planet” 345
304, 305, 334
Ashley, Mike 308
Bender, Albert 25–26, 64
“At the Grand Cañon” (Sterling) 183
Benediktsson, Thomas 20, 180–81, 331
At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft) 208
Benét, William Rose 8, 57, 61
Atlantis 88, 158, 171, 210, 212, 239–58,
Beowulf 264
364 THE FREEDOM OF FANTASTIC THINGS
Bertrand, Aloysius 80, 81, 138, 139, 156
Browning, Robert 38, 41, 129, 330
“Beyond the Black River” (Howard) 274
Bryant, William Cullen 202
Beyond the Breakers and Other Poems (Ster-
Bullough, Edward 225
ling) 16, 23, 33
Burleson, Donald R. 188, 201
“Beyond the Great Wall” 56, 204
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 149, 198
“Beyond the Rose-Arbor” 345
“Butterfly, The” 37, 42
“Beyond the Singing Flame” 161, 165,
Bynner, Witter 8, 22–23, 38, 192
177, 341
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 39, 41,
Bierce, Ambrose 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 24,
122, 125, 153, 314
26, 28, 61, 70n19, 77, 146, 149, 153,
168, 181, 182, 187, 189, 195, 199, 202,
Cabell, James Branch 71, 82, 201, 291,
222, 223
319
Binding of the Beast and Other War Verse, The
Caged Eagle and Other Poems, The (Sterling)
(Sterling) 16
16
Björkman, Edwin 38
“Cairn on the Headland, The” (Howard)
“Black Abbot of Puthuum, The” 176,
267
284, 285, 289, 344
California the Wonderful (Markham) 63
Black Book, The 189, 308, 309, 313–14
Campbell, Joseph 198, 327
Black Cat 157
Cantos, The (Pound) 30, 73
“Black Cat, The” (Poe) 175
Carman, Bliss 57, 95
“Black Lake, The” 80, 146
Carroll, Lewis 43
“Black Thirst” (Moore) 269
Carter, Lin 196, 261, 277, 336, 337
Blackwood, Algernon 126, 177
“Cask of Amontillado, The” (Poe) 223
Blake, William 85, 120
Cassidy, B. A. 27
Blavatsky, Helena P. 240, 251, 278, 336
Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole) 201
Bleiler, E. F. 206, 217
Catholic Encyclopedia 125
Blessing of Pan, The (Dunsany) 210
Catholicism 154
Blish, James 76–84
“Cats of Ulthar, The” (Lovecraft) 201
Bloch, Robert 7
Catullus, C. Valerius 184
Bohemian Club 16, 17, 24
Cawthorn, James 260, 277, 286
“Bond” 254–55
“Celephaïs” (Lovecraft) 201
Bonnet, Theodore 22
“Chain of Aforgomon, The” 171, 175–
Book Club of California 16, 24
76, 209, 231, 232–33, 238, 344
Book of Eibon 215, 336
Chambers, Robert W. 149, 158
Book of the Damned, The (Lee) 272
“Chant d’Automne” (Baudelaire) 95
Book of Hyperborea, The 334, 337
“Chant of Autumn” 73, 81, 204
Book of Wonder, The (Dunsany) 201
“Charnel God, The” 88, 162, 207, 283,
Borel, Petrus 153
285, 343
Borges, Jorge Luis 119, 196
Chatterton, Thomas 41, 202
Bosch, Hieronymus 208, 217
“Checkmate” 340
Boston Evening Transcript 51
Chevalier, Jean 326
Boucher, Anthony 61
“Chincharerro” 345
Brackett, Leigh 269
“Chinoiserie” 144–45
Bradbrook, M. C. 281
“Christabel” (Coleridge) 90
Bradbury, Ray 189
Christgau, Robert 274
Braithwaite, William Stanley 51
Christianity 51, 109, 110, 117, 132–37,
Bridges, Robert 38
285, 295–96, 297–98
Browne, Sir Thomas 73, 81, 83, 87, 282
Churchward, James 241
Index
365
“City of Destruction, The” (poem) 141
Crabbe, George 90
“City of Destruction, The” (prose poem)
Crane, Stephen 181, 198
140–41
“Creating the Modern Romance Epic”
“City of the Singing Flame, The” 66,
(Douglass) 271
69n18, 79, 161, 165, 170, 189, 198,
Critias (Plato) 212, 239
211, 223, 236–37, 238, 335, 340
Crocker, Templeton 25
“City of the Titans, The” 93, 203
Cross, Thomas 71
“City on Mallington Moor, The” (Dun-
“Crystals, The” 80
sany) 211
Culler, Jonathan 318, 319
“Clarimonde” (Gautier) 158
Current Opinion 180
Clark Ashton Smith (Behrends) 277, 283
“Cycles” 256
“Clark Ashton Smith: An Appreciation”
(Leiber) 274
Dali, Salvador 217
“Clark Ashton Smith: Emperor of Shad-
Dante Alighieri 120, 208, 315, 342
ows” (De Casseres) 74
d’Arcy, Ella 209–10
“Clark Ashton Smith’s Column” 27
“Dark Age, The” 212, 343
Clarke, Arthur C. 216
Dark Chateau, The 86, 250, 252, 281
“Clean, Well-Lighted Place, A” (He-
“Dark Eidolon, The” 70n18, 79, 162–63,
mingway) 305
171, 283, 285–86, 288, 343
Cline, Leonard 9
“Dark Muse, The” (Wagner) 266
“Cloud-Islands, The” 34–35, 37, 67n2,
“Dart of Rasasfa, The” 344
240
Davidson, Cathy N. 187
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 15, 53, 85, 86,
Davidson, John 38
90, 126, 179
“Dawn of Discord” 344
Collins, Charles M. 174
“Days, The” 140
“Colossus of Ylourgne, The” 62, 79, 139,
Dead Will Cuckold You, The 171, 247, 263,
158, 174–75, 286, 295, 297, 300–301,
277, 281, 290
342
“Death of Ilalotha, The” 162, 164, 209,
“Colour out of Space, The” (Lovecraft)
283, 289, 344
318
“Death of Malygris, The” 88,
158, 207,
Comédie de la mort, La (Gautier) 153
248, 343
“Coming of the White Worm, The” 88,
Decadents, Symbolists, and Aesthetes in Amer-
159, 207, 213, 267–68, 270, 274, 293,
ica (Foster) 95
336, 343
de Camp, L. Sprague 7, 69n18, 151, 231,
“Coming Singer, The” (Sterling) 33
260, 278
Complete Pegāna, The (Dunsany) 261
De Casseres, Benjamin 7, 27, 71, 74, 75,
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (De
77, 81, 85, 221, 291
Quincey) 109
“Decay of Lying, The” (Wilde) 206
Connors, Scott 84n1, 130, 222, 289, 305,
“Dejection: An Ode” (Coleridge) 126
307
de la Ree, Gerry 307
“Constellations of the Law, The.” See
“Demoiselle d’Ys, The” (Chambers) 158
“Ministers of the Law, The”
“Demon, the Angel, and Beauty, The”
Contes cruels (Villiers de l’Isle-Adam) 325
139, 141, 144
Coolbrith, Ida Donna 13, 18
“Demon of the Flower, The” 88, 146,
“Copy of Burns, A” 339
155, 210, 217, 341
“Corpse and the Skeleton, The” 141–42
De Quincey, Thomas 81, 109
Cosmopolitan 15, 21, 152, 182, 187, 239
Derleth, August 8, 61, 73, 74, 191, 225
Cowley, Malcolm 180
Descartes, René 186
366 THE FREEDOM OF FANTASTIC THINGS
“Desdichado, El” (Gérard de Nerval)
Dunlap, Boutwell 22, 152
202
Dunsany, Lord 62, 69n18, 103, 201, 202,
“Desert Places” (Frost) 192
206, 210, 211, 261, 274, 280, 289, 291
“Desolation” 97
Durand, G. 208
Devil’s Dictionary, The (Bierce) 28
“Dweller in the Gulf, The” 160, 197,
Devil’s Law Case, The (Webster) 277
198, 206, 211, 308, 342
Devil’s Notebook, The 28, 259
Dziemianowicz, Stefan 174
“Devotee of Evil, The” 165, 166, 176,
307, 308, 314–15, 339
Eagleton, Terry 184, 186
Diablerie 76
“Eblis in Bakelite” (Blish) 76–84
“Didus Ineptus” 94
Ebony and Crystal 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28,
“Dimension of Chance, The” 160, 342
29, 32, 53–60, 74, 78, 80, 81, 139, 152,
“Disinterment of Venus, The” 62, 158,
155, 180, 183, 184, 202, 203, 224, 241,
209, 295, 297, 301, 342
243, 254, 336
“Dissidence” 246, 249
Eddison, E. R. 201
“Diversity” 246
“Eggs from Saturn, The” 340
“Djinn without a Bottle” 345
“Eidolon of the Blind, The” 308
“Dominium in Excelsis” 250
“Eldritch Dark, The” 95
Donne, John 185
“Eleanora” (Poe) 80
“Doom That Came to Sarnath, The”
Eliot, T. S. 30, 85, 86, 97, 131, 172, 184–
(Lovecraft) 201
86, 187, 188, 189, 260
“Door to Saturn, The” 88, 159, 224, 266,
Elliot, Hugh 186
269–70, 339
Elliott, William Foster 58
Doré, Gustave 208
Ellison, Ralph 189
Dorman, Carol Jones 170, 231, 254
“Empire of the Necromancers, The”
“Double Cosmos” 344
161, 171, 209, 214, 236, 277, 283, 284,
“Double Shadow, The” 158, 168, 171,
288, 326, 341
189, 206, 207, 248, 307, 308, 311–13,
Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith
338, 342
Bibliography (Sidney-Fryer) 9, 74, 84n1,
Double Shadow and Other Fantasies, The 78,
256, 335
88, 286, 305–17, 341
“Enchanted Mirrors” 90, 245–46, 328
Douglass, Sara 271
“Enchantress of Sylaire, The” 162, 253,
Dowson, Ernest 38
295, 300, 344
“Dream Bridge, The” 35
“End of the Story, The” 157, 162, 174,
“Dream-Land” (Poe) 168
197, 198, 207, 209, 238, 293–94, 295,
“Dream of Beauty, A” 38–39
296, 297, 299–300, 338, 340
“Dream of King Karna-Vootra, The”
“Ennui” (poem) 97
(Dunsany) 210
“Ennui” (prose poem) 146, 155
“Dream of Beauty, A” 236
“Envoys, The” 170
“Dream of Lethe, A” 144
“Epiphany of Death, The” 209, 339
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The
“Eternal World, The” 62, 160, 212, 216,
(Lovecraft) 201
341
Dreamer’s Tales, A (Dunsany) 201
Eureka (Poe) 156
Dreiser, Theodore 87, 181, 190, 195
Evanescent City, The (Sterling) 16
Dryden, John 130
“Eviction by Night” 344
Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster) 285
Experiments in Haiku 32
Du Maurier, George 40
Duncan, Isadora 18
“Face by the River, The” 340
Index
367
Faerie Queene, The (Spenser) 79, 203, 248
Garden of Cyrus, The (Browne) 81
Fait, Eleanor 70n22
Garnett, Porter 34, 258n1
“Fall of the House of Usher, The” (Poe)
Gaspard de la nuit (Bertrand) 138, 156
173, 177, 313, 318
Gaspard du Nord 139, 175
Fantastic Fables (Bierce) 146
Gautier, Théophile 109, 153, 154, 158,
Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (Cawthorn-
205
Moorcock) 277
“Géante, La” (Baudelaire) 94, 290
Fantasy Fan 72, 195
“Genius Loci” 177–78, 298, 343
Fantasy Fiction 31
Genius Loci and Other Tales 62–63, 88, 148
Fantasy Review 62
George Sterling (Benediktsson) 20
Farber, Marjorie 186
“George Sterling—An Appreciation” 21
“Father Coyote” (Sterling) 23
Gérard de Nerval 153, 154, 189, 202
“Fears in Solitude” (Coleridge) 90
Gernsback, Hugo 160, 293, 308, 341, 342
Figures of Earth (Cabell) 201
“Ghoul, The” 207, 230, 280, 340
Fionavar Tapestry, The (Kay) 272
“Ghoul and the Seraph, The” 141
FitzGerald, Edward 29, 40
Gladstone, William Ewart 40
“Flamingoes” 55
Gods of Pegāna, The (Dunsany) 201, 289
Flaubert, Gustave 83, 120, 168, 206
Golden Whales of California (Lindsay)
Fleurs du mal, Les (Baudelaire) 29, 153,
70n22
314
“Good Embalmer, A” 340
Flint, F. S. 184
Goodrich, Peter 189
“Flower-Devil, The” 139–40, 146, 155,
“Gorgon, The” 178, 207, 340
230
Gourmont, Remy de 154
“Flower-Women, The” 88, 161, 207,
“Great God Awto, The” 226, 344
210, 343
“Great God Pan, The” (Machen) 341
“For Annie” (Poe) 53
Greene, Madelynne 252–54, 256, 257
“For Iris” 231
Gross, Dalton 68n5
> “Forbidden Forest, The” 146
Guillaud, Lauric 254
“Forgotten Sorrow” 245
Foster, Edward 95
Haeckel, Ernst 182
“Fra Lippo Lippi” (Browning) 129
“Hamlet and His Problems” (Eliot) 185
“Fragment, A” 55–56
Harding, D. W. 192
France, Anatole 154, 158
Harte, Bret 13
“France: An Ode” (Coleridge) 90
Harvey, Ryan 263, 267
French, Nora May 13, 202, 257n1
Hasheesh Eater, The (Ludlow) 109
Fresno Bee 69n17
“Hashish Club, The” (Gautier) 109
“From a Letter” 144, 244
Hashish-Eater, The 8, 21, 25, 26, 29, 31,
“From the Crypts of Memory” 80, 142,
57, 73, 81, 83, 91, 99–123, 133, 155,
145, 155, 205, 206, 235–36, 282
186, 202, 243, 244, 336
“From the Persian” 78
Havens, Frank C. 13
Frost, Robert 184, 192
Havens, Mrs. Frank C. 15
Frye, Northrop 323, 326, 327, 328, 329
Hawkes, John 196
Fugitives, The 247
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 197, 200
“Function of Criticism, The” (Eliot 185
Hearn, Lafcadio 168
Hearst, William Randolph 71, 182
“Garden and the Tomb, The” 142–43
Heller, Terry 225
“Garden of Adompha, The” 164, 169,
Hemingway, Ernest 82, 86, 87, 195, 305
171, 283, 289, 344
Henley, W. E. 38
368 THE FREEDOM OF FANTASTIC THINGS
Heredia, José-Maria de 153
Hermaphrodite and Other Poems, The (Love-
“I Am a Witch” 345
man) 74
“Ice-Demon, The” 79, 159, 213, 270,
Hero with a Thousand Faces, The (Campbell)
271, 274, 342
198
Iliad (Homer) 126, 128
Herodotus 83
Illuminations (Rimbaud) 156
Herron, Don 28, 84n1, 257, 275, 331–32
“Images” 139, 140
“Hertha” (Swinburne) 117
“Imagination” 91
Hesperides 240
“Immeasurable Horror, The” 160, 339
Hiemstra, Marvin R. 9, 171
“Immortals of Mercury, The” 341
Hilger, Ronald Scott 84n1, 222, 257, 289
“In a Hashish-Dream” 345
Hill of Dionysus, The 32, 252, 253, 254, 257
“In Cocaigne” 144, 156
Hill of Dreams, The (Machen) 91
“In Lemuria” 242–43
Hillman, Arthur F. 62
“In November” 73, 81
Hippocampus Press 90
“In Saturn” 92
Hitchcock, Alfred 325
“In Slumber” 93
Hodgson, William Hope 166, 195, 218
Incantations 32
Hoffman, Rah 148, 257
Infernal Star, The 176, 343
“Holiness of Azédarac, The” 88, 158,
Inferno (Dante) 120, 208
162, 174, 222, 295, 297, 298, 299, 301,
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