Most stories that appeared in Weird Tales  received accompanying artwork, usually on the title page. Clark Ashton Smith's "The End ...

When I was writing my three-part series on the worlds of Clark Ashton Smith , I realized that I had somehow never written a Pulp Fantasy L...

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...

Of Clark Ashton Smith's three main cycles of fiction – Zothique , Hyperborea , and Averoigne – I encountered Averoigne first, thanks to...

H.P. Lovecraft's career as a writer was seriously hampered by the fact that he would regularly withhold publication of his stories unles...

"Mother of Toads," which first appeared in the July 1938 issue of Weird Tales is a short but very disturbing story by Clark Ashton...

January is upon us and so I bid farewell to Pulp Science Fiction Library (though it may return in the future). For the first installment of ...

First published in the April/May 1931 issue of Weird Tales , Clark Ashton Smith's "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" is probably one ...

Robert E. Howard died in 1936 and H.P. Lovecraft followed him a year later. By some reports, Clark Ashton Smith was deeply -- and adversely ...

First appearing in the May 1933 issue of Weird Tales , Clark Ashton Smith's "The Beast of Averoigne" is, in many ways, very si...

The illustration to the left isn't from the first appearance of Clark Ashton Smith's June 1933 short story, "The Colossus of Yl...