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Post by deuce on Oct 26, 2018 1:17:19 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Nov 4, 2018 17:14:29 GMT -5
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Post by robp on Nov 5, 2018 7:06:14 GMT -5
Wow, looks great! Does anyone know if this will be available as a download? Air mail is so expensive now, it's almost double the price of the DVD
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Post by Ningauble on Nov 6, 2018 13:34:03 GMT -5
Wow, looks great! Does anyone know if this will be available as a download? Air mail is so expensive now, it's almost double the price of the DVD
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Nov 8, 2018 13:59:19 GMT -5
The expanded edition of The Hashish-Eater by Clark Ashton Smith, published by Hippocampus Press, is an annotated edition of Smith's, possibly, most famous (and amazing) poetical work. Annotated by Donald Sidney-Fryer. It's noteworthy to mention, Hippocampus states they have a few copies left signed by Fryer, the editor, and annotator. But wait -- there's more.It comes with a CD of Fryer narrating Smith's poem in dramatic form. I guess that makes him editor, annotator & narrator. I dig the Smith cover art. Currently for $15. <iframe width="20.940000000000055" height="16.58000000000004" style="position: absolute; width: 20.940000000000055px; height: 16.58000000000004px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 5px; top: 407px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_38528407" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="20.940000000000055" height="16.58000000000004" style="position: absolute; width: 20.94px; height: 16.58px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 980px; top: 407px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_81454838" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="20.940000000000055" height="16.58000000000004" style="position: absolute; width: 20.94px; height: 16.58px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 5px; top: 1169px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_37759434" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="20.940000000000055" height="16.58000000000004" style="position: absolute; width: 20.94px; height: 16.58px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 980px; top: 1169px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_90340500" scrolling="no"></iframe>
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Post by deuce on Nov 9, 2018 10:08:25 GMT -5
"I have not written any verse this Fall, with the exception of the enclosed ('Barrier')...Life isn't so rotten as it was, apart from eyestrain [remember folks Smith had no electricity in his cabin], having to milk the cow for my nearest neighbour's widow! I seem to be almost popular, of late, with the Auburn ladies. There's nothing like having a bad reputation! - at least, for a poet."CAS to George Sterling, November 4, 1923Clark remained popular with the ladies of Auburn until he married late in life.
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Post by robp on Nov 9, 2018 12:59:08 GMT -5
Wow, looks great! Does anyone know if this will be available as a download? Air mail is so expensive now, it's almost double the price of the DVD
Thanks, will watch it tonight! Just started reading the Stephen Behrend's book, very interesting so far
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Post by deuce on Dec 9, 2018 10:40:12 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 19, 2018 2:46:30 GMT -5
"I have done another tale since writing you, to round out my third year of professional fictioneering. The story, 'Genius Loci,' is rather an experiment for me—and I hardly know what to do with it. . . . It was all damnably hard to do, and I am not certain of my success. I am even less certain of being able to sell it to any editor—it will be too subtle for the pulps, and the highbrows won’t like the supernatural element. Oh, hell.'"
-- CAS to August Derleth Autumn 1932
The story "Genius Loci" appeared in the Weird Tales, June 1933 issue. IMO, one of Smith's top 10 tales.
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Post by deuce on Jan 13, 2019 15:34:40 GMT -5
Today is Klarkash-Ton's 126th birthday. As always, the best place for CAS texts and scholarship is The Eldritch Dark website: www.eldritchdark.com/
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Post by deuce on Jan 22, 2019 1:34:34 GMT -5
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Jan 22, 2019 9:12:42 GMT -5
My introduction to Smith came by way of an anthology I mentioned in the Wollheim thread -- The Macabre Reader -- where I read Smith's The Hunters' From Beyond. In that one sweet little Ace, I was introduced to Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, plus a host of others. But, The City of the Singing Flame is a much better story by which to become introduced to Smith; so you were fortunate. And I'm sure Smith would agree, as he wrote the sequel -- Beyond the Singing Flame -- only a few months after City saw publication. I recall my own first-reading of City; holy frak, what a story. I was blown away. A nice introduction to Smith, indeed, Deuce.
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Post by deuce on Jan 23, 2019 0:55:42 GMT -5
"It should be mentioned in passing that at the very least Smith is, in terms of the English language, the foremost creator within the genre of the poem in prose. This genre is not to be confused with modern poetry in general, which is often or usually written in prose in lines of varying length with or without a noticeable metre or stress. In his prose-poems Smith follows immediately in the wake or footsteps of those French poets mostly of the nineteenth century, who created the form or medium of the poeme en prose, and those others who then worked extensively within it."
-- Donald Sidney-Fryer, from his intro to CAS' The Hashish-Eater, Hippocampus Press (2008)
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Post by deuce on Jan 23, 2019 11:26:44 GMT -5
“…Clark Ashton Smith… He was another supernatural horror writer. Very rich, doomful stuff: Arabian Nights chinoiserie. A mood like Beddoes’ Death’s Jest-Book. He lived near San Francisco and knew the old artistic crew, he visited George Sterling at Carmel...”
- from Our Lady of Darkness (1977) by Fritz Leiber
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 19, 2019 12:12:26 GMT -5
Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of DreamsJohn Langan reviews the documentary, Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams. I thought this was a nice article about the movie - which I haven't watched yet [::Chris cringes as he admits it::] It is in my Amazon queue to do so, however. Actually, the reason I haven't watched it yet because I'm waiting for my good friend to come over one evening (who also loves himself some Smith) so we can watch and discuss it together. Check out more about the movie on IMDB.Or, watch the trailer on Vimeo: Alternatively, watch the trailer and add to your Amazon Watch List here. The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton SmithA nugget which I discovered in the article was a reminder of this Hippocampus Press work, The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton Smith. This sounds like a must-have book for any CAS collector, with critical essays by Scott Connors, Donald Sydney-Fryer, Steve Behrends, et al. The table of contents is impressive (see below). Table of Contents:- Introduction by Scott Connors
- “The Centaur” by Clark Ashton Smith
- Klarkash-Ton and “Greek” by Donald Sidney-Fryer
- Contemporary Reviews of Clark Ashton Smith
- Eblis in Bakelite by James Blish
- James Blish versus Clark Ashton Smith; to Wit, the Young Turk Syndrome by Donald Sidney-Fryer
- The Last Romantic by S J Sackett
- Communicable Mysteries: The Last True Symbolist by Fred Chappell
- What Happens in The Hashish-Eater? by S T Joshi
- The Babel of Visions: The Structuration of Clark Ashton Smith’s The Hashish-Eater by Dan Clore
- Clark Ashton Smith’s “Nero” by Carl Jay Buchanan
- Satan Speaks: A Reading of “Satan Unrepentant” by Phillip A Ellis
- Lands Forgotten or Unfound: The Prose Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith by S T Joshi
- Out the Human Aquarium: The Fantastic Imagination of Clark Ashton Smith by Brian Stableford
- Gesturing Toward the Infinite by Scott Connors
- Clark Ashton Smith: A Note on the Aesthetics of Fantasy by Charles K Wolfe
- Fantasy and Decadence in the Work of Clark Ashton Smith by Laurie Guillaud
- Humor in Hyperspace: Smith’s Uses of Satire by John Kipling Hitz
- The Song of the Necromancer: “Loss” in Clark Ashton Smith’s Fiction by Steve Behrends
- Brave World Old and New: The Atlantis Theme in the Poetry and Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith by Donald Sidney-Fryer
- Coming in from the Cold: Incursons of “Outsideness” in Hyperborea by Steven Tompkins
- As Shadows Wait Upon the Sun: Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique by Jim Rockhill
- Into the Woods: The Human Geography of Averoigne by Stefan Dziemianowicz
- Sorcerous Style: Clark Ashton Smith's The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies by Peter H Goodrich
- Loss and Recuperation: A Model for Reading Clark Ashton Smith’s “Xeethra” by Dan Clore
- “Life, Love, and the Clemency of Death”: A Reexamination of Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Isle of the Torturers” by Scott Connors
- An Annotated Chronology of the Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith by Steve Behrends
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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