Artwork by Clark Ashton Smith I've already touched on the fact that, compared to his contemporaries, H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard...

Among the more interesting aspects of Clark Ashton Smith’s literary output is the way many of his best-known stories fall into a series of l...

The artwork that often accompanied the stories appearing in Weird Tales and other pulp magazines fascinates me. What strikes me about it is...

With The Ensorcellment of January now underway, I’m taking a brief hiatus from H. P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands tales to share my thoughts on f...

1. How did you first discover the works of H.P. Lovecraft and what was it about his writing that captivated you? Greetings, James, and thank...

As The Shadow over August draws to a close, I keep catching myself thinking about the posts I never got around to writing. That seems to be...

When I attended Gamehole Con this year , I decided I wouldn't referee any games, but would instead play in several. I did this for a cou...

Back at the start of April, I wrote about my inability to replay the old  AD&D computer game, Pool of Radiance . The difficulty lay prim...

When I first read  Astonishing Swords & Sorcerers of Hyperborea , two things about it greatly impressed me. Most significant was that th...

I am regularly struck by the industry   demonstrated by the writers of the Golden Age of the Pulps. The sheer number of stories they collect...

Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps my favorite pulp fantasy author, which is why his stories appear so often as entries in this series . Neverthe...

When I was a child, among my favorite science fiction books were those of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. I adored these books more ...

Two of the traits for which Clark Ashton Smith's weird tales are most well-known are their black humor and luxuriant language. Both are ...

Appearing in the January 1932 issue of Strange Tales , Clark Ashton Smith's "The Door to Saturn" is part of his Hyperborean cy...

First published in the June 1932 issue of Weird Tales , "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" is a Clark Ashton Smith short story set i...