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Post by keith on May 4, 2018 5:41:04 GMT -5
Thanks a lot, Deuce! Yes I am a major fan of CAS. Like you. (Who with taste and discernment isn't?)
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Post by Ningauble on May 4, 2018 14:26:00 GMT -5
Scott Connors is working on a biography of CAS, and has created a Patreon page for it. I have been looking forward to this book for close to 20 years, and Scott is definitely the right man for it, so I am proud to say that I was the first patron: www.patreon.com/scottconnors/overview
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Post by deuce on May 18, 2018 9:03:05 GMT -5
Sounds cool!
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New anthology proposal from Jon Harvey of Spectre Press.
The Children of Clark Ashton Smith
(Probably, this will not be the final title)
Clark Ashton Smith (CAS) is my favourite fantasy author. I've had the pleasure of publishing several stories in the vein of CAS's works. I'm very interested in publishing an anthology of stories, poems and prose poems in CAS's vein. Whether the stories are based in Averoigne, Hyperboria, Poseidonis, Zothique or anywhere else, as long as it fits CAS's mode of storytelling, I'll be more than interested. If your story, etc. has been published elsewhere, please let me know where and when the work was published.
I will pay one penny Sterling per word, with a minimum payment of £10 Sterling for poems and very, very short stories and prose poems. For illustrations, I will pay £30 for 'header' illustrations to a story, £100 for full page illustrations and £200 for the cover illustration. All rights are reserved by the author or artist.
I would like to have all the material in by January 31st, 2019 so I can publish the anthology by June 2019.
Contact me by email (jon.harvey@talktalk.net or spectrepress01@gmail.com) or by post to Jon Harvey, 56 Mickle Hill, Sandhurst, Berkshire, GU47 8QU, UK.
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Post by deuce on Jun 29, 2018 0:41:11 GMT -5
Harlan Ellison has died. He always claimed that CAS' The City of the Singing Flame is what made him want to be a writer. "To read Clark Ashton Smith is to be washed over by a Tsunami."
-- Harlan Ellison
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Post by Char-Vell on Aug 10, 2018 14:15:41 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 14, 2018 11:51:16 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 15, 2018 1:54:07 GMT -5
Scott Connors, one of the foremost CAS scholars, posted this in memory of Clark... In memoriam: Klarkash-Ton
The sorcerer departs . . . and his high tower is drowned Slowly by low flat communal seas that level all . . . While crowding centuries retreat, return and fall Into the cyclic gulf that girds the cosmos round, Widening, deepening ever outward without bound . . . Till the oft-rerisen bells from young Atlantis call; And again the wizard-mortised tower upbuilds its wall Above a rebeginning cycle, turret-crowned.
New-born, the mage resummons stronger spells, and spirits With dazzling darkness clad about, and fierier flame Renewed by aeon-curtained slumber. All the powers Of genii and Solomon the sage inherits; And there, to blaze with blinding glory the bored hours, He calls upon Shem-hamphorash, the nameless Name.
--"Cycles", a poem by Clark Ashton Smith
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Post by deuce on Aug 22, 2018 0:53:29 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 24, 2018 11:35:02 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 26, 2018 12:22:35 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 30, 2018 12:54:01 GMT -5
CAS was a huge fan of Poe. Turns out, he did a sketch of EAP around 1915, complete with a fascimile Poe signature.
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Post by deuce on Sept 1, 2018 19:09:12 GMT -5
"Thanks again for the drawing of the wizard. I’d feel highly honored if you were to make a drawing for the Conan stories."
-- Robert E. Howard to Clark Ashton Smith January 1934
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Post by deuce on Sept 7, 2018 12:20:46 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 4, 2018 10:54:59 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 6, 2018 11:25:09 GMT -5
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