num_pages: 370
description: A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural Not just any fantasy horror and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him perhaps unexcelled by any other writer dead or living or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the worthy term sui generis. Clark Ashton Smithautodidact prolific poet amateur philosopher bizarre sculptor and unmatched storytellersimply wrote like no one else before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smiths visionary brand of fantastical phantasmagorical worlds each one filled with invention terror and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder.
language: English
title: The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
publisher: Penguin Classics