A Vintage from Atlantis; Volume Three of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith

Smith, Clark Ashton; ed. by Scott Connors & Ron Hilger

ISBN 10: 1597800309 / ISBN 13: 9781597800303

Published by Night Shade Books, 2007

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Twenty-one stories orig. pub. ca.1930-34. 9.5x6", xiv+336 pp. Bookplate inside cover, else clean, tight, VG in VG dj.

Seller Inventory # 36196

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Vintage from Atlantis; Volume Three of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith
• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597800309
• ISBN 13: 9781597800303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

The third of five volumes collecting the complete stories of renowned “weird fiction” author Clark Ashton Smith.

“None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer.” —H. P. Lovecraft

Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape “weird fiction” in the early twentieth century, alongside contemporaries H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, drawing upon his background in poetry to convey an unparalleled richness of imagination and expression in his stories of the bizarre and fantastical.

The Collected Fantasies series presents all of Smith’s fiction chronologically. Authorized by the author’s estate and endorsed by Arkham House, the stories in this series are accompanied by detailed background notes from editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, who in preparation for this collection meticulously compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s own notes and letters. Their efforts have resulted in the most definitive and complete collection of the author’s work to date.

A Vintage from Atlantis is the third of five volumes collecting all of Clark Ashton Smith’s tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. It includes all of his stories from “The Holiness of Azédarac” (1931) to “The God of the Asteroid” (1932), as well as an introduction by Michael Dirda.

About the Author

Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated poet and author best remembered for his short stories of fantasy, horror, and the supernatural published in genre pulp magazines such as Wonder Stories and Weird Tales in the late 1920s and 1930s. Smith died in 1961 in California.