The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 2: The Door To Saturn: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 2 - Hardcover

Smith, Clark Ashton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597800295 ISBN 13: 9781597800297

Publisher: Night Shade Books, 2007

Synopsis

The second of five volumes collecting the complete stories of renowned weird fiction” author Clark Ashton Smith.
None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer.”
H. P. Lovecraft

Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape weird fiction” in the early twentieth century, alongside contemporaries H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, drawing upon his background in poetry to convey an unparalleled richness of imagination and expression in his stories of the bizarre and fantastical.

The Collected Fantasies series presents all of Smith’s fiction chronologically. Authorized by the author’s estate and endorsed by Arkham House, the stories in this series are accompanied by detailed background notes from editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, who in preparation for this collection meticulously compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s own notes and letters. Their efforts have resulted in the most definitive and complete collection of the author’s work to date.

The Door to Saturn is the second of five volumes collecting all of Clark Ashton Smith’s tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. It includes all of his stories from The Door to Saturn” (1930) to The Hunters from Beyond” (1931), as well as an introduction by Tim Powers.

About this title

Synopsis:

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work. This second volume of the series brings together 20 of his fantasy stories.

About the Author:

Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated poet and author best remembered for his short stories of fantasy, horror, and the supernatural published in genre pulp magazines such as Wonder Stories and Weird Tales in the late 1920s and 1930s. Smith died in 1961 in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1597800295
• ISBN 13: 9781597800297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350