The Kingdom of the Worm by Clark Ashton Smith

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08/21/23 • 19 min

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

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