Lair of the Eldritch Dark

Lair of the Eldritch Dark gathers many of Clark Ashton Smith's classic tales of fantasy and horror—along with his ethereal poetry and prose poems—together in one wide-ranging volume of speculative fantastical fiction and verse. A great friend of H. P. Lovecraft and a contemporary of Robert E. Howard, Smith’s vivid imagination and unique antiheroes created worlds that pushed the accepted boundaries of both realism and fantasy, ushering in new ways of writing while challenging readers to think differently. Smith's wide-ranging influence is still felt strongly today. His enthusiastic readers went on to build and mold the genres of fantasy, horror, and SF as we know them. Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Harlan Ellison, and George R. R. Martin among many others were influenced by Smith's otherworldly, visionary fiction. The following books, stories, poems, and prose poems are included in Lair of the Eldritch Dark: Books of Poetry and Prose Poems: The Star-Treader and Other Poems Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose Short Stories: Averoigne: The Colossus of Ylourgne The Disinterment of Venus Mother of Toads The Enchantress of Sylaire A Rendezvous In Averoigne Hyperborea: The Door to Saturn The Seven Geases The Tale of Satampra Zeiros Poseidonis: Atlantis From a Letter/Muse of Atlantis The Death of Malygris The Double Shadow Maal Dweb of Xiccarph: The Maze of Maal Dweb The Flower-Women Aihai/Mars: Vulthoom Zothique: The Weaver in the Vault The Witchcraft of Ulua The Charnel God The Tomb-Spawn Xeethra The Dark Eidolon Necromancy in Naat The Black Abbot of Puthuum The Death of Ilalotha The Garden of Adompha The Master of the Crabs Morthylla The Last Hieroglyph Other Short Stories: The Ghost of Mohammed Din The Mahout Prince Alcouz and the Magician The Raja and the Tiger Something New The Planet of the Dead The Demon of the Flower The Chain of Aforgomon The Devotee of Evil Other Poetry: Adventure Afterwards Alienage Apologia August Autumn Orchards Autumn's Pall The Barrier Brumal The City of the Titans Contradiction Departure Don Juan Sings Dream Mystery Duality The End of Autumn Forgotten Sorrow The Horizon Interrogation The Love-Potion Moon-Dawn Moonlight Nyctalops Ougabalys Psalm to the Desert Remembrance The Secret Selenique Semblance The Song of Aviol The Song of Cartha Song of the Necromancer To the Chimera The Unremembered A Valediction We Shall Meet The Wind and the Moon The Wingless Archangels Witch-Dance The Witch with Eyes of Amber You are not Beautiful Luna Aeternalis Other Prose Poetry: The Lake of Enchanted Silence To the Daemon Epigrams: Abandoned Plum-Orchard. Cats in Winter Sunlight Translations: Parisian Dream by Charles Baudelaire Alchemy of Sorrow by Charles Baudelaire The Owls This book also includes numerous illustrations by Smith for reader enjoyment.