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A Rendezvous In Averoigne
''A Rendezvous in Averoigne'' is a collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror stories by American writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1988 by Arkham House in an edition of 5,025 copies. The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne, Hyperborea, Poseidonis, Xiccarph, and Zothique. Its title story is a relatively conventional vampire story. Contents ''A Rendezvous in Averoigne'' contains the following stories: # "Introduction", by Ray Bradbury # Averoigne #* "The Holiness of Azédarac" #* "The Colossus of Ylourgne" #* "The End of the Story" #* "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" # Atlantis #* "The Last Incantation" #* "The Death of Malygris" #* "A Voyage to Sfanomoë" # Hyperborea #* "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" #* "The Seven Geases" #* " The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" #* "The Coming of the White Worm" # Lost Worlds #* "The City of the Singing Flame" #* "The Dweller in the Gulf" #* "The Chain of Aforgomon" #* "Genius Loci" #* "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". Smith was one of "the big three of ''Weird Tales'', with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", but some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. The fantasy critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Empire Of The Necromancers
"The Empire of the Necromancers" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the September 1932 issue of ''Weird Tales''. Background When editing the 1970 Smith collection ''Zothique'', Lin Carter noted "The Empire of the Necromancers" as "the first to be published" of the Zothique cycle. Plot Two necromancers, Mmatmuor and Sodosma, from the land of Naat, travel to Tinarath to exhume and reanimate the dead. However, they are soon shunned by its inhabitants and the two have to go elsewhere to continue their necromancy. Thus they go to Cincor where they continue their practice. They begin with a dead traveler and his horse they find on a road. Later, they begin reanimating more of the dead as they travel through Cincor until they arrive at what was once its capital Yethlyreom. There they take refuge in its palace as they reanimate everyone who died. While the dead serve them, one begins to remember his past life. Illeir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Short Story Collections
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Magic, magic practitioners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Short Story Collections By Clark Ashton Smith
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Short Story Collections
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Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography
The following is a list of works by Clark Ashton Smith. __TOC__ Short fiction Prose poems Novel * ''The Black Diamonds'', written in 1907, published in 2002 Plays * ''The Dead will Cuckold You'': A Drama in Six Acts (in verse). Written in 1951. First published in 1989* ''The Fugitives'': a fragment. Written on September 17, 1922. Published in 1989* ''Venus And The Priest'': a fragment. Published in 1989 Lyrics * ''The Dream Bridge'': Music by Henry Cowell, words by Clark Ashton Smith. Written c. 1920* ''Impression'': Music by Joseph W. Grant, words by Clark Ashton Smith* ''White Death'': Music by Henry Cowell, words by Clark Ashton Smith. Written in Sept 1915 Poetry Poems (including translations)Titles and dates based on the bibliography established bwww.eldritchdark.com by Clark Ashton Smith: *Abandoned Plum-Orchard (1958) *Abel et Caïn (CXLIV. Abel et Caïn) *The Absence of the Muse (Oct 1921) *The Abyss Triumphant (3 Aug 1912) *Adjuration (1976) *Adventure (14 Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Isle Of The Torturers
"The Isle of the Torturers" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the March 1933 issue of '' Weird Tales''. Publication history According to '' Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography'' (1978) by Donald Sidney-Fryer, "The Isle of the Torturers" was first published in the March 1933 issue of '' Weird Tales''. It was included in the books ''Keep on the Light'' (1933) edited by Christine Campbell Thomson as "Isle of Torturers", ''Lost Worlds'' (1944), and '' Zothique'' (1970). Plot A long-foretold plague called the Silver Death comes from the star Achernar to Yoros. King Fulbra is protected by a magical ring made by his loyal sorcerer Vemdeez. The ring protects its wearer from illness and from spreading the plague, but the moment it is removed the Silver Death will return. Everyone in Yoros dies except Fulbra and three slaves. They set sail for the vassal state of Cyntrom. A storm drives them to Ucca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necromancy In Naat
"Necromancy in Naat" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the July 1936 issue of ''Weird Tales''. Plot Nomad prince Yadar finds his betrothed Dalili taken up by bandits during his hunt for gazelles in the "half-desert" region Zyra. Yadar begins a quest to find Dalili. With four of his men, they search the capitals of Zothique. While fever takes Yadar's men, Yadar finds that Dalili was sold as a slave girl to the king of Yoros as settlement for a treaty. Taking passage on a galley carrying grain and wine to Yoros, the ship is whisked off in a current called the Black River. Far from shore, Yadar learns from the galley crew that between there and the edge of the world is a land called Naat ruled by necromancers. As the galley shipwrecks onto Naat, Yadar is rescued by an undead woman. Yadar learns that the undead woman is Dalili. Initially happy, Yadar finds that undead Dalili does not reciprocate. On the beach, Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Hieroglyph
"The Last Hieroglyph " is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the April 1935 issue of '' Weird Tales''. Plot Nushain the astrologer in Xylac charts a new horoscope which he copies down in a book. The horoscope foretells of a journey involving three guides to the house of Vergama, a god. A mummy appears in his written horoscope. Soon he is visited by a mummy who leads Nushain from his abode to the underworld. Nushain is accompanied by his black servant Mouzda and his dog Ansarath. Initially, he is overwhelmed by the underworld and flees back the way he came but ends up getting lost. The mummy finds him and leads Nushain to the shore of an unknown ocean. There they are visited by a merman and an uncrewed ship. The ship follows the merman as it sends them over a boiling ocean. The ship brings them to a wall of fire. A salamander beckons them to follow it through the wall and they do so. The salamander sends them to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Death Of Ilalotha
"The Death of Ilalotha" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the September 1937 issue of ''Weird Tales''. Plot Amid festivities, Ilalotha who is next in succession to Queen Xantlicha dies of fatal passion. Lord Thulos who is in love with the queen discovers the body. Thulos is suspect since the queen poisoned King Archain and other lovers who do not please the queen. While servants dispatch the body to a necropolis near the palace, the queen and Lord Thulos plan to meet later. However, Thulos is concerned Ilalotha might be a witch. Later that night, Thulos awakes and remembers his appointment but worries he might be late. When he finds he is early, he decides to check the necropolis as he has suspicions Ilalotha might not be dead after all. Something dispatches Lord Thulos. Later, Queen Xantlicha goes to meet Lord Thulos but finds he is absent. Deciding he may have gone to check on Ilalotha, she goes to her to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Eidolon
"The Dark Eidolon" is a sword and sorcery short story by American writer Clark Ashton Smith, forming part of his Zothique cycle of stories. It was first published in '' Weird Tales'' in 1935 and has been variously republished, notably in the anthology ''The Spell of Seven'', edited by L. Sprague de Camp. Described by de Camp in his introduction to the story as 'one of the most horrible' of Smith's tales, it chronicles the life and death of the dread sorcerer Namirrha. Publication history According to '' Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography'' (1978) by Donald Sidney-Fryer, "The Dark Eidolon" was first published in the January 1935 issue of '' Weird Tales''. It was included in the books ''Out of Space and Time'' (1944), ''The Spell of Seven'' (1965) edited by L. Sprague de Camp, and '' Zothique'' (1970). Plot synopsis Namirrha was once known as Narthos, a beggar boy of Ummaos, capital city of Xylac. Trampled almost to death by the horses of Prince Zotulla, he leav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xeethra
"Xeethra" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the December 1934 issue of ''Weird Tales''. Background When editing the 1970 Smith collection ''Zothique'', Lin Carter placed "Xeethra" as chronologically "the true beginning of events." Plot In pastoral Cincor, the young Xeethra wanders his goat herd to an unknown plain. Despite it being late in the day, Xeethra decides to explore. Finding a cave, he follows it through a tunnel to a hidden valley. There he finds a weird field with unusual flora and two giants guarding it. Amid the flora, Xeethra takes a bite of strange fruit and realises he was long ago King Amero of the far-off Calyz. Returning to his guardian Pornos, he admits this realisation while admitting he strayed too far and quite late. While Pornos refutes this thought, he admits there are certain passageways to the underworld of Thassaidon, an evil god. The next day, Xeethra begins his journey to find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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