Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Eidolon-Other-Fantasies/dp/0143107380 For my money Clark Ashton Smith is the best of the 30s and onward pulp writers. He has more variety than his two big Weird Tales contemporaries, Howard and Lovecraft and was more prolific than C.L. Moore. In a world where good fantasy is rare he is well worth your time. Ashton Smith didn’t want to be a story writer as he preferred poetry, but was driven to weird tales to earn a living and we are fortunate that he was. Dark Eidolon is easily available, being published by Penguin, and across 18 stories gives a good cross section of his works. Unlike the more famous Lovecraft, and to some extent Howard Ashton Smith was not tied to one or two genres or settings but his writing does have certain commonalities. He wrote occult horror, weird fantasy, historical fantasy, lost world fiction, science fantasy, ghost stories and psychological stories. The prose is often poetic wi...
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