Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith

The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith
Edited by Scott Conners & Ronald S. Hilger
Encode: .aax to mp3 - 64k, stereo, 24 KHz
Total # of Tracks: 124
Total Play time: 73:06:55



Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn".
Smith was one of "the big three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", where some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. It has been said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." He was a member of the Lovecraft circle, and Smith's literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. His work is marked chiefly by an extraordinarily wide and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor.

Stories in this collection:



The End Of The Story 64k [13:33:07] {387mb}
Read by Fleet Cooper, Allan Robertson, Joe Knezevich, Bernard Setaro Clark, William Neenan & Chris Kayser

01) To the Daemon
02) The Abominations of Yondo
03) Sadastor
04) The Ninth Skeleton
05) The Last Incantation
06) The End of the Story
07) The Phantoms of the Fire
08) A Night in Malnéant
09) The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake
10) Thirteen Phantasms
11) The Venus of Azombeii
12) The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
13) The Monster of the Prophecy
14) The Metamorphosis of the World
15) The Epiphany of Death
16) A Murder in the Fourth Dimension
17) The Devotee of Evil
18) The Satyr
19) The Planet of the Dead
20) The Uncharted Isle
21) Marooned in Andromeda
22) The Root of Ampoi
23) The Necromantic Tale
24) The Immeasurable Horror
25) A Voyage to Sfanomoë
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The Door to Saturn 64k [13:38:43] {385mb}
Read by William Neenan, Joe Knezevich, Bernard Setaro Clark, Allan Robertson & Chris Kayser

01) The Door to Saturn
02) The Red World of Polaris
03) Told in the Desert
04) The Willow Landscape
05) A Rendezvous in Averoigne
06) The Gorgon
07) An Offering to the Moon
08) The Kiss of Zoraida
09) The Face by the River
10) The Ghoul
11) The Kingdom of the Worm
12) An Adventure in Futurity
13) The Justice of the Elephant
14) The Return of the Sorcerer
15) The City of the Singing Flame
16) A Good Embalmer
17) The Testament of Athammaus
18) A Captivity in Serpens
19) The Letter from Mohaun Los
20) The Hunters from Beyond
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A Vintage from Atlantis 64k [16:07:14] {453mb}
Read by Fleet Cooper, Daniel May, Joe Knezevich, Bernard Setaro Clark, William Neenan & Chris Kayser

01) The Holiness of Azédarac
02) The Maker of Gargoyles
03) Beyond the Singing Flame
04) Seedling of Mars [w/ E. M. Johnston]
05) The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis
06) The Eternal World
07) The Demon of the Flower
08) The Nameless Offspring
09) A Vintage from Atlantis
10) The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
11) The Invisible City
12) The Immortals of Mercury
13) The Empire of the Necromancers
14) The Seed from the Sepulcher
15) The Second Interment
16) Ubbo-Sathla
17) The Double Shadow
18) The Plutonian Drug
19) The Supernumerary Corpse
20) The Colossus of Ylourgne
21) The God of the Asteroid
22) The Flower-Devil
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Maze of the Enchanter 64k [14:54:04] {417mb}
Read by Gregory St. John, Bernard Setaro Clark, Chris Kayser & Daniel May

01) The Mandrakes
02) The Beast of Averoigne
03) A Star-Change
04) The Disinterment of Venus
05) The White Sybil
06) The Ice-Demon
07) The Isle of the Torturers
08) The Dimension of Chance
09) The Dweller in the Gulf
10) The Maze of the Enchanter
11) The Third Episode of Vathek: The Story of the Princess Zulkaïs and the Prince Kalilah [w/ William Beckford]
12) Genius Loci
13) The Secret of the Cairn
14) The Charnel God
15) The Dark Eidolon
16) The Voyage of King Euvoran
17) Vulthoom
18) The Weaver in the Vault
19) The Flower-Women
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The Last Hieroglyph 64k [14:53:43] {425mb}
Read by Chris Kayser, Gregory St. John, William Neenan, Daniel May, Bernard Clark & Fleet Cooper

01) The Dark Age
02) The Death of Malygris
03) The Tomb-Spawn
04) The Witchcraft of Ulua
05) The Coming of the White Worm (Chapter IX of the Book of Eibon)
06) The Seven Geases
07) The Chain of Aforgomon
08) The Primal City
09) Xeethra
10) The Last Hieroglyph
11) Necromancy in Naat
12) The Treader of the Dust
13) The Black Abbot of Puthuum
14) The Death of Ilalotha
15) Mother of Toads
16) The Garden of Adompha
17) The Great God Awto
18) Strange Shadows
19) The Enchantress of Sylaire
20) Double Cosmos
21) Nemesis of the Unfinished
22) The Master of the Crabs
23) Morthylla
24) Schizoid Creator
25) Monsters in the Night
26) Phoenix
27) The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles
28) Symposium of the Gorgon
29) The Dart of Rasasfa