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Book Synopsis The Death of Malygris by : Clark Ashton Smith
Download or read book The Death of Malygris written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dark sorcerer Malygris has died, though Maranapion suspects there is more to his death than meets the eye. Maranapion and other wizards set out to ensure that Malygris is truly dead, and has not been using necromancy to extend his life beyond the realm of death…
Book Synopsis Mummies around the World by : Matt Cardin
Download or read book Mummies around the World written by Matt Cardin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for school and public libraries, this is the only reference book to combine pop culture with science to uncover the mystery behind mummies and the mummification phenomena. Mortality and death have always fascinated humankind. Civilizations from all over the world have practiced mummification as a means of preserving life after death—a ritual which captures the imagination of scientists, artists, and laypeople alike. This comprehensive encyclopedia focuses on all aspects of mummies: their ancient and modern history; their scientific study; their occurrence around the world; the religious and cultural beliefs surrounding them; and their roles in literary and cinematic entertainment. Author and horror guru Matt Cardin brings together 130 original articles written by an international roster of leading scientists and scholars to examine the art, science, and religious rituals of mummification throughout history. Through a combination of factual articles and topical essays, this book reviews cultural beliefs about death; the afterlife; and the interment, entombment, and cremation of human corpses in places like Egypt, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. Additionally, the book covers the phenomenon of natural mummification where environmental conditions result in the spontaneous preservation of human and animal remains.
Download or read book Lost Worlds written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of classic macabre and fantastic tales from a master of pulp fiction.
Book Synopsis DARK DIMENSIONS OF DEATH by : Clark Ashton Smith
Download or read book DARK DIMENSIONS OF DEATH written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith stands as part of the great triumvirate of horror/fantasy writers who emerged from the ranks of Weird Tales magazine in the 1920s and 1930s. Whilst not quite as well-known as these illustrious peers, Smith stands equal to them in terms of the brilliance, scope and imagination of his writing. DARK DIMENSIONS OF DEATH, an anthology of Smith’s finest work, seeks to assert the author’s rightful place at the summit of the genre. Edited and introduced by D. M. Mitchell. Featuring: Isle Of The Torturers, Necromancy On Naat, The Vaults Of Yoh-Vombis, Empire Of The Necromancers, The Colossus Of Ylourgne, The Dark Eidolon, The Garden Of Adompha, The Charnel God, The Abominations Of Yondo, Mother Of Toads, and nine other classic death-tainted tales.
Book Synopsis Delphi Complete Works of Clark Ashton Smith (Illustrated) by : Clark Ashton Smith
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Clark Ashton Smith (Illustrated) written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 2469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the West Coast Romantic poets, Clark Ashton Smith was also an accomplished master of Weird fantasy fiction. Recognised as one of the “big three of Weird Tales”, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, his work is characterised for its extraordinarily ornate vocabulary, inventive and cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic, ribald humour. This comprehensive eBook presents Smith’s complete published works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Smith’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major books * All of the short stories published during and shortly after the author’s life * Special hyperlinked contents tables for the popular Averoigne, Hyperborean, Poseidonis, Zothique, Mars and Xiccarph short stories * Features rare tales appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories * Easily locate the poems or stories you want to read * Rare poetry collections * Includes essays – spend hours exploring the author’s varied works * Smith’s brief autobiography * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres * UPDATED with 6 themed story contents tables, 6 rare tales to 'Miscellaneous Short Stories' section and improved texts Please note: some posthumous tales and poems cannot appear due to remaining copyrights. When new works become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Averoigne Series The Hyperborean Cycle The Poseidonis Stories The Zothique Tales The Mars Cycle The Xiccarph Chronicles The Short Story Collections The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies (1933) Out of Space and Time (1942) Lost Worlds (1944) Genius Loci and Other Tales (1948) The Abominations of Yondo (1960) Tales of Science and Sorcery (1964) Other Dimensions (1970) Hyperborea (1971) Poseidonis (1973) Miscellaneous Short Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Poetry Collections The Star-Treader and Other Poems (1912) Odes and Sonnets (1918) Ebony and Crystal (1922) Sandalwood (1925) The Dark Chateau and Other Poems (1951) Spells and Philtres (1958) The Hill of Dionysus (1962) Poems in Prose (1965) Selected Poems (1971) The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Miscellaneous Essays
Book Synopsis The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Last Hieroglyph by : Clark Ashton Smith
Download or read book The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Last Hieroglyph written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Hieroglyph is the fifth of the five volume Collected Fantasies series. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts. The Last Hieroglyph includes, in chronological order, all of Clark Ashton Smith's stories from "The Dark Age" to "The Dart of Rasasfa."
Download or read book Poseidonis written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Murder in the Fourth Dimension by : Clark Ashton Smith
Download or read book Murder in the Fourth Dimension written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scribbled note left by a tree was the only clue to two missing men...ExcerptNot everyone, perhaps, will believe that my ten years' hatred for Edgar Halpin was the impelling force that drove me to the perfecting of a most unique invention. Only those who have detested and loathed another man with the black fervor of the feeling I had conceived, will understand the patience with which I sought to devise a revenge that should be safe and adequate at the same time. The wrong he had done me was one that must be expiated sooner or later; and nothing short of his death would be sufficient. However, I did not care to hang, not even for a crime that I could regard as nothing more than the mere execution of justice; and, as a lawyer, I knew how difficult, how practically impossible, was the commission of a murder that would leave no betraying evidence. Therefore, I puzzled long and fruitlessly as to the manner in which Halpin should die, before my inspiration came to me.I had reason enough to hate Edgar Halpin. We had been bosom friends all through our school days and through the first years of our professional life as law-partners. But when Halpin married the one woman I had ever loved with complete devotion, all friendship ceased on my side and was replaced by an ice-like barrier of inexorable enmity. Even the death of Alice, five years after the marriage, made no difference, for I could not forgive the happiness of which I had been deprived-the happiness they had shared during those years, like the thieves they were. I felt that she would have cared for me if it had not been for Halpin-indeed, she and I had been almost engaged before the beginning of his rivalry.
Book Synopsis The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies by : Clark Ashton Smith
Download or read book The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him “unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the worthy term sui generis. Clark Ashton Smith—autodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre sculptor, and unmatched storyteller—simply wrote like no one else, before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smith’s visionary brand of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention, terror, and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales by : Justin Everett
Download or read book The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales written by Justin Everett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the pulp magazine Weird Tales appeared on newsstands in 1923, it proved to be a pivotal moment in the evolution of speculative fiction. Living up to its nickname, “The Unique Magazine,” Weird Tales provided the first real venue for authors writing in the nascent genres of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Weird fiction pioneers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Catherine L. Moore, and many others honed their craft in the pages of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, and their work had a tremendous influence on later generations of genre authors. In The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror, Justin Everett and Jeffrey Shanks have assembled an impressive collection of essays that explore many of the themes critical to understanding the importance of the magazine. This multi-disciplinary collection from a wide array of scholars looks at how Weird Tales served as a locus of genre formation and literary discourse community. There are also chapters devoted to individual authors—including Lovecraft, Howard, and Bloch—and their particular contributions to the magazine. As the literary world was undergoing a revolution and mass-produced media began to dwarf high-brow literature in social significance, Weird Tales managed to straddle both worlds. This collection of essays explores the important role the magazine played in expanding the literary landscape at a very particular time and place in American culture. The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales will appeal to scholars and aficionados of fantasy, horror, and weird fiction and those interested in the early roots of these popular genres.
Book Synopsis Arkham House Books by : Leon Nielsen
Download or read book Arkham House Books written by Leon Nielsen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work covers the supernatural and speculative fiction published by Arkham House Publishers, Inc., of Sauk City, Wisconsin. In 1937, promising Wisconsin writer August Derleth decided to publish a collection of the stories of his recently deceased friend, H. P. Lovecraft. After two years of failed attempts, Derleth and another Lovecraft fan, Donald Wandrei, published the collection themselves under the name of Arkham. In the years that followed, Arkham House published the works of many of the foremost American and British writers of weird fiction, including Basil Copper, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, and Robert Bloch. Arkham published Ray Bradbury's first book, Dark Carnival, in 1947. The work begins with a history of the house and biography of August Derleth; it also includes a chapter on H. P. Lovecraft’s connection to Arkham. The main body of the text consists of chronologically listed descriptions and current values of the more than 230 titles published by Arkham House and its two imprints, Mycroft & Moran and Stanton & Lee. These entries detail editions, reprints, special points, restoration, care, buying and selling, investment, and future trends. Other features include alphabetical indeces of titles and authors, lists of scarcity and value ranking, a list of annual stock lists and catalogs, and a bibliography of reference literature. The book is illustrated throughout with dust jacket reproductions and photographs.
Download or read book Sense of Wonder written by Leigh Grossman and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 7287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Book Synopsis Marooned in Andromeda by : Clark Ashton Smith
Download or read book Marooned in Andromeda written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three mutineers end up stranded on a strange world with even stranger inhabitants!
Book Synopsis A Vintage from Atlantis by : Clark Ashton Smith
Download or read book A Vintage from Atlantis written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object had the form of a great jar, with a tapering neck and a deep, round, abdomens body. It was wholly encrusted with shells and corals that had gathered upon it as if through many ages in the ocean deeps, and was festooned with weeds and sea-flowers such as we had never before beheld; so that we could not determine the substance of which it was made.Excerpt I thank you, friend, but I am no drinker of wine, not even if it be the rarest Canary or the oldest Amontillado. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging . . . and more than others, I have reason to know the truth that was writ by Solomon the Jewish king. Give ear, if ye will, and I shall tell you a story such as would halt the half-drained cup on the lips of the hardiest bibber.We were seven-and-thirty buccaneers, who raked the Spanish Main under Barnaby Dwale, he that was called Red Barnaby for the spilling of blood that attended him everywhere. Our ship, the Black Falcon, could outfly and outstrike all other craft that flew the Jolly Roger. Full often, Captain Dwale was wont to seek a remote isle on the eastward verge of the West Indies, and lighten the vessel of its weight of ingots and doubloons.The isle was far from the common course of maritime traffic, and was not known to maps or other mariners; so it suited our purpose well. It was a place of palms and sand and cuffs, with a small harbor sheltered by the curving outstretched arms of rugged reefs, on which the dark ocean climbed and gnashed its fangs of white foam without troubling the tranquil waters beyond. I know not how many times we had visited the isle; but the soil beneath many a coco tree was heavy with our hidden trove. There we had stored the loot of bullion-laden ships, the massy plate and jewels of cathedral towns.Even as to all mortal things, an ending came at last to our visits. We had gathered a goodly cargo, but might have stayed longer on the open main where the Spaniards passed, if a tempest had not impended. We were near the secret isle, as it chanced, when the skies began to blacken; and wallowing heavily in the rising seas we fled to our placid harbor, reaching it by night-fall. Before dawn the hurricane had blown by; and the sun came up in cloudless amber and blue. We proceeded with the landing and burying of our chests of coin and gems and ingots, which was a task of some length; and afterward we refilled our water-casks at a cool sweet spring that ran from beneath the palmy hill not far inland.
Download or read book Phoenix written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They had come up to watch the rising of the sun: that sun which they had never seen except as an orb of blackness, occluding the zodiacal stars in its course from horizon to horizon.ExcerptRodis and Hilar had climbed from their natal caverns to the top chamber of the high observatory tower. Pressed close together, for warmth as well as love, they stood at an eastern window looking forth on hills and valleys dim with perennial starlight. They had come up to watch the rising of the sun: that sun which they had never seen except as an orb of blackness, occluding the zodiacal stars in its course from horizon to horizon.Thus their ancestors had seen it for millenniums. By some freak of cosmic law, unforeseen, and inexplicable to astronomers and physicists, the sun's cooling had been comparatively sudden, and the earth had not suffered the long-drawn complete desiccation of such planets as Mercury and Mars. Rivers, lakes, seas, had frozen solid; and the air itself had congealed, all in a term of years historic rather than geologic. Millions of the earth's inhabitants had perished, trapped by the glacial ice, the centigrade cold. The rest, armed with all the resources of science, had found time to entrench themselves against the cosmic night in a world of ramified caverns, dug by atomic excavators far below the surface.Here, by the light of artificial orbs, and the heat drawn from the planet's still-molten depths, life went on much as it had done in the outer world. Trees, fruits, grasses, grains, vegetables, were grown in isotope-stimulated soil or hydroroponic gardens, affording food, renewing a breathable atmosphere. Domestic animals were kept; and birds flew; and insects crawled or fluttered. The rays considered necessary for life and health were afforded by the sunbright lamps that shone eternally in all the caverns.Little of the old science was lost; but, on the other hand, there was now little advance. Existence had become the conserving of a fire menaced by inexorable night. Generation by generation a mysterious sterility had lessened the numbers of the race from millions to a few thousands. As time went on, a similar sterility began to affect animals; and even plants no longer flourished with their first abundance. No biologist could determine the cause with certainty.Perhaps man, as well as other terrestrial life-forms, was past his crime, and had begun to undergo collectively the inevitable senility that comes to the individual. Or perhaps, having been a surface-dweller throughout most of his evolution, he was inadaptable to the cribbed and prisoned life, the caverned light and air; and was dying slowly from the deprivation of things he had almost forgotten.
Book Synopsis The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith by : Clark Ashton Smith
Download or read book The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miscellaneous Fictions of Clark Ashton Smith gathers together the adventure, juvenilia and other non-fantastic fiction of Smith. While he is known best for his fantastic work, these adventure and mainstream stories shed light on the development of Smith’s writing and his constantly evolving style. The Miscellaneous Fictions is a perfect companion to the five volume Collected Fantasies set. As with that set, editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have prepared this volume by comparing original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts. Contents of The Miscellaneous Fictions include “The Animated Sword,” “The Malay Crise,” “The Ghost of Mohammed Din,” “The Mahout,” “The Rajah and the Tiger,” “Something New,” “The Flirt,” “The Perfect Woman,” “A Platonic Entanglement,” “The Expert Lover,” “The Parrot,” “A Copy of Burns,” “Checkmate,” “The Infernal Star,” “The Dead will Cuckold You,” “House of the Monoceros,” “Dawn of Discord,” and many others.
Book Synopsis Outside the Human Aquarium by : Brian M. Stableford
Download or read book Outside the Human Aquarium written by Brian M. Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Stableford's essays cover Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Kurt Vonnegut, Barry Malzberg, Robert Silveberg, Mack Reynolds, Clark Ashton Smith, Philip K. Dick, David H. Keller, Theodore Sturgeon, and Stanley G. Weinbaum.
