The Fantasy Fan Magazine Presents: Writings of Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith (1893 - 1961)

Collected here are all of Clark Aston Smith's writings he submitted to The Fantasy Fan Magazine. The Fantasy Fan Magazine was a periodical dedicated to people professing their love of and celebrating fantasy and weird fiction. In addition to the opinion pieces and non-fiction articles, The Fantasy Fan also included many short stories and poems by some of the authors it celebrated such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith, a personal favorite of editor Charles D. Hornig. Smith contributed quite a variety of stories, poems and articles to The Fantasy Fan over its two-year tenure. From the weird and creepy journeys to unknown worlds of "The Kingdom of the Worm" and "The Primal City" to the strange and haunting poetry of "A Dream of the Abyss" and "Necromancy" to the insightful essays on M. R. James and fantastic fiction in general, Smith shows the breadth of his writing skill within the pages of this sadly short-lived 'zine. (Summary and reading by Ben Tucker)

CHAPTER	TIME
The Kingdom of the Worm	00:20:02
A Dream of the Abyss	00:02:38
The Ghoul	00:12:42
The Weird Works of M. R. James	00:07:35
Revenant	00:02:53
Prose Pastels I. Chinoiserie	00:02:34
Prose Pastels II. The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony	00:02:27
Prose Pastels III. The Muse of Hyperborea	00:02:10
Prose Pastels IV. The Lotus and the Moon	00:01:35
Prose Pastels V. The Passing of Aphrodite	00:06:21
The Epiphany of Death	00:12:51
Necromancy	00:01:23
Clark Ashton Smith: An Autiobiographette	00:01:56
On Fantasy	00:04:31
The Favorite Weird Stories of Clark Ashton Smith	00:01:05
The Demonian Face	00:01:23
Medusa	00:02:54
The Primal City	00:16:31