Out of Space and Time

"None strikes the note of cosmic horror so well as Clark Ashton Smith," wrote the late great H. P. Lovecraft more than a decade ago. "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Mr. Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living." Now for the first time a selection of the outre tales of Clark Ashton Smith are available to the reading public. Here are the tales chosen by Smith himself, including those now famous accounts of sorcery in old Averoigne, the widely read science-fiction novelette and its sequel, The City of the Singling Flame, the terror-fraught The Second Interment, that narrative of inconceivable horror, The Double Shadow, and that sly little tale, The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan. There are tales here of fabled Hyperborea, tales belonging to the Cthulhu Mythology, and at least two which have never seen print in the popular magazines. Readers of the weird and science-fiction magazines have long been familiar with Smith's work and will welcome this first collection of the cream of those stories which first appeared in Weird Tales, Strange Tales, etc. Clark Aston Smith is supreme among fantasists today. "Who else has seen such gorgeous, luxuriant, and feverishly distorted visions of infinite spheres and multiple dimensions and lived to tell the tale?"