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Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work. This third volume of the series brings together 21 of his fantasy stories.
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Adolfo Villegas Ortiz
reviewed The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume 3: A Vintage from Atlantis on March 02, 2017
The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume 3: A Vintage from Atlantis
Short stories by an early proponent of fantasy and science fiction/horror. Clarke Ashton Smith earned a living by selling stories to periodicals such as Weird Tales or Astounding Stories.
This collection is patchy and some of the stories have not aged well. Particularly jarring was "The Plutonian Drug" featuring an amazing substance called Plutonium, made from a lichen from Pluto. Of course a few years after the story was written the real Plutonium was discovered.
For me the gothic horror stories set in medieval Averoigne work best and have stood the test of time. I also love the way CAS has with arcane and obscure words such as lich, mephitic and hierophant.
A generous 3/5, with a nostalgic nod back to a simpler time when a teenage me devoured pulp fiction such as this
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