A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic maste
rs of the supernatural Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author
could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "unexcelled by any other writer,
dead or living" or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the worthy term "sui generis."
Clark Ashton Smith--autodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre scul
ptor, and unmatched storyteller--simply wrote like no one else, before or since.
