Printed on the Bancroft library's 1856 Albion handpress. The Black Abbot of Puthuum.
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist.
Robertson, Nov 1912.
A small volume, Odes and Sonnets, was brought out in 1918.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, June 1918.
For this reason, it has been suggested that Lovecraft might as well be referred to as a member of a "Smith" circle as Smith was a member of a Lovecraft one. In 1920 Smith composed a celebrated long poem in blank verse, The Hashish Eater, or The Apocalypse of Evil which was published in Ebony and Crystal (1922).
His long poem The Hashish-Eater; Or, the Apocalypse of Evil was written in 1920. ===Weird fiction: 1926–1935=== Smith wrote most of his weird fiction and Cthulhu Mythos stories, partially inspired by H.
Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937.
With studied playfulness, Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's coinages of place names and the names of strange gods for their stories, though so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme that it has been dubbed the "Clark Ashton Smythos." In 1925 Smith published Sandalwood, which was partly funded by a gift of $50 from Donald Wandrei.
Auburn CA: The Auburn Journal Press, Oct 1925.
His long poem The Hashish-Eater; Or, the Apocalypse of Evil was written in 1920. ===Weird fiction: 1926–1935=== Smith wrote most of his weird fiction and Cthulhu Mythos stories, partially inspired by H.
Bender. ===Prolific fiction-writing period=== At the beginning of the Depression in 1929, with his aged parents' health weakening, Smith resumed fiction writing and turned out more than a hundred short stories between 1929 and 1934, nearly all of which can be classed as weird horror or science fiction.
These tales have been compared to the Dying Earth sequence of Jack Vance. In 1933 Smith began corresponding with Robert E.
From 1933 to 1936, Smith, Howard and Lovecraft were the leaders of the Weird Tales school of fiction and corresponded frequently, although they never met.
Auburn, CA: The Auburn Journal Press, 1933.
Bender. ===Prolific fiction-writing period=== At the beginning of the Depression in 1929, with his aged parents' health weakening, Smith resumed fiction writing and turned out more than a hundred short stories between 1929 and 1934, nearly all of which can be classed as weird horror or science fiction.
Hoffmann Price is the only man known to have met all three in the flesh. Critic Steve Behrends has suggested that the frequent theme of 'loss' in Smith's fiction (many of his characters attempt to recapture a long-vanished youth, early love, or picturesque past) may reflect Smith's own feeling that his career had suffered a "fall from grace": ===Mid-late career: return to poetry and sculpture=== In September 1935, Smith's mother Fanny died.
From 1933 to 1936, Smith, Howard and Lovecraft were the leaders of the Weird Tales school of fiction and corresponded frequently, although they never met.
Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937.
Timeus died in December 1937.
Lakeport CA: The Futile Press, May 1937.
Sacramento Union (Dec 21, 1941), 4C. Haefele, John D.
Laney and others. In 1942, three years after August Derleth founded Arkham House for the purpose of preserving the work of H.P.
This volume was delivered by the author to Arkham House in December 1949 but remained unpublished until 1971. ===Night Shade Books=== The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 5-volume work Miscellaneous Writings.
In the late 1950s Smith recorded a number of his poems on the tape-recorder of his friend Robert B.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, Dec 1951.
Derleth published five more volumes of Smith's prose and two of his verse, and at his death in 1971 had a large volume of Smith's poems in press. ===Later life, marriage and death=== In 1953, Smith suffered a coronary attack.
Aged 61, he married Carol(yn) Jones Dorman on November 10, 1954.
(Elder had first met Smith when reporting on his 1954 wedding to the former Carol Dorman for The Auburn Courier and they became friends when Smith praised Elder's novel Whom the Gods Destroy.) In 1995 Necronomicon Press released the audiocassette Clark Ashton Smith: Live from Auburn: The Elder Tapes, which includes an introduction by Elder and then Smith reading his poems.
Smith having sold most of his father's tract, in 1957 the old house burned – the Smiths believed by arson, others said by accident. Smith now reluctantly did gardening for other residents at Pacific Grove, and grew a goatee.
After Smith's death, Carol remarried (becoming Carolyn Wakefield) and subsequently died of cancer. The poet's ashes were buried beside, or beneath, a boulder to the immediate west of where his childhood home (destroyed by fire in 1957) stood; some were also scattered in a stand of blue oaks near the boulder.
Sauk City: Arkham House, March 1958.
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist.
In 1961 he suffered a series of strokes and in August 1961 he quietly died in his sleep, aged 68.
Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Cockcroft, Nov 1961 (500 copies).
Derleth published five more volumes of Smith's prose and two of his verse, and at his death in 1971 had a large volume of Smith's poems in press. ===Later life, marriage and death=== In 1953, Smith suffered a coronary attack.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, Nov 1971.
This volume was delivered by the author to Arkham House in December 1949 but remained unpublished until 1971. ===Night Shade Books=== The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 5-volume work Miscellaneous Writings.
Baltimore MD: Mirage Press, 1973. Emperor of Dreams.
Albuquerque NM: Silver Scarab Press, 1973. Sidney-Fryer, Donald.
WI: Arkham House, 1976, 211–12. Fait, Eleanor.
For a full bibliography to 1978, see Sidney-Fryer, Emperor of Dreams (cited below).
Grant Publishers, 1978.
Plaques recognizing Smith have been erected at the Auburn Placer County Library in 1985 and in Bicentennial Park in Auburn in 2003. Bookseller Roy A.
Averon Press, 1996. Klarkash-Ton: The Journal of Smith Studies No 1 (June 1988), Cryptic Publications.
This journal was continued under a new title but with the numbering continued from No 1, thus the first issue of The Dark Eidolon: The Journal of Smith Studies, (Necronomicon Press) is numbered "2" (it appeared June 1989).
Mercer Island WA: Starmont House, 1990.
Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990. Cockcroft, Thomas G.L.
(Elder had first met Smith when reporting on his 1954 wedding to the former Carol Dorman for The Auburn Courier and they became friends when Smith praised Elder's novel Whom the Gods Destroy.) In 1995 Necronomicon Press released the audiocassette Clark Ashton Smith: Live from Auburn: The Elder Tapes, which includes an introduction by Elder and then Smith reading his poems.
Averon Press, 1996. Klarkash-Ton: The Journal of Smith Studies No 1 (June 1988), Cryptic Publications.
West Hills, CA: Tsathoggua Press, Jan 1997.
Firsts (October 2000). Joshi, S.
By 14 he had already written a short adventure novel called The Black Diamonds which was lost for years until published in 2002.
No 3 appeared in Dec 2002. The Journal of Clark Ashton Smith Studies, Seele Brennt Publications.
Plaques recognizing Smith have been erected at the Auburn Placer County Library in 1985 and in Bicentennial Park in Auburn in 2003. Bookseller Roy A.
Issued annually, five numbers 2003–2008. Morris, Harry O.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 2003. Schultz, David E and S.T.
Another juvenile novel was written in his teenaged years: The Sword of Zagan (unpublished until 2004).
Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, 2004.
NY: Hippocampus Press, 2005. Sidney-Fryer, Donald.
NY: Hippocampus Press, 2006. de Camp, L.
San Jose, CA: Hih Art Studios, 2007.
Glendale, CA: The RAS Press, Oct 2007.
Dole: Silver Key Press, 2007.
Includes Donald Sidney-Fryer's readings of "The Hashish-Eater" and a selection of other Smith poems, identical to the selection on the CD which accompanied the 2008 Hippocampus Press volume "The Hashish-Eater"; here, however, an orchestral soundtrack by Graham Plowman has been added.
"Far from Time: Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Arkham House." Weird Fiction Review No 1 (Fall 2010), 154–189. Hilger, Ronald.
NY: Hippocampus Press, 2017. Scholars S.T.
Nampa, Idaho Fedogan and Bremer, 2018.
NY: Hippocampus Press, 2020. ===Books published in Smith's lifetime=== 1912: The Star-Treader and Other Poems.
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