The Hunters from Beyond

"The Hunters from Beyond" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith that first appeared in the October 1932 issue of Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror. 
The story's titular creatures were first incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos in "The Guardian of the Book", by Henry Hasse. The character Cyprian Sincaul is also mentioned in Lin Carter's Mythos stories "Out of the Ages" and "The Horror in the Gallery".
==Characters==
* Philip Hastane: The story's narrator, "a professional writer of stories that often dealt with occult phenomena, with the weird and the spectral." He is a second or third cousin of Cyprian Sincaul.
* Cyprian Sincaul: A San Francisco sculptor who "wanted to do in sculpture what Poe and Lovecraft and Baudelaire have done in literature, what Rops and Goya did in pictorial art." He is described as "lean, harsh, vehement, with an air of pride and penetration that was almost Luciferian. His unkempt mane of hair was already shot with white, and his eyes were electrically brilliant with a strange knowledge."
* Marta Fitzgerald: Sincaul's model and lover. Half Irish, half Italian, she is described as "beautiful, in a dark, semi-Latin fashion," with a "sullen and reluctant" mouth and "wide, liquid eyes."
* Toleman: The owner of a San Francisco bookstore called Toleman's. He is "a tonsured gnome with shell-rimmed goggles."
==Publication History==
After its appearance in Strange Tales, "The Hunters from Beyond" has appeared in numerous collections of Smith's work, including Lost Worlds (Arkham House, 1944), The City of the Singing Flame (Timescape/Pocket Books, 1981), The Emperor of Dreams (Gollancz/Orion, 2002), The White Sybil and Other Stories (Wildside Press, 2004), The Door to Saturn: Volume Two of the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith (Night Shade Books, 2007), and The Klarkash-Ton Cycle: Clark Ashton Smith's Cthulhu Mythos Fiction (Chaosium, 2008).Internet Speculative Fiction Database, "Title: The Hunters from Beyond." 
The story was included in the Lovecraftian anthologies The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack (Wildside Press, 2012) and Lovecraft Short Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, 2017). It also was selected for the general horror anthologies The Macabre Reader (Ace Books, 1959) and A Book of Weird Tales (Veevers & Hensman, 1960).
It as been translated into French (as "Les chasseurs de l'au-delà," 1986), German ("Verfolger von Drüben," 1988, and "Die Jäger aus der Tiefe," 2015), Italian ("I cacciatori dell'Aldilà," 1990), and Portuguese ("Os Caçadores do Além," 2020).
==External Link==
* "The Hunters from Beyond" full text at Eldritch Dark
== References ==
Category:Clark Ashton Smith works
Category:Lovecraft Circle Works