According to Bradbury, Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures on those worlds and in those cities." And he did this largely through his gorgeous style and the courtly pacing of his sentences. "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception," wrote Lovecraft, "Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer dead or living." America's two senior grandmasters of fantasy and science fiction, Jack Vance and Ray Bradbury, clearly modeled their own early "poetic" styles after his.
Certainly, the evidence of two new paperback reissues, a collection of substantial critical essays, the first volume of a scholarly edition of his collected fantasies, a recent volume of letters, and much else hint at the ongoing literary vitality of this fascinating and controversial writer. Howard, creator of Conan) - and some would argue that he was the best of them all. A journey to the fantastic realms of Clark Ashton Smith.'"> Email Bio February 18, 2007Ĭlark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was one of the three great contributors to the magazine Weird Tales (along with H.P.
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