Song of the Necromancer and Others: The Complete Poems from Weird Tales by Clark Ashton Smith

Format: Hardcover, 45 pages

Publisher: Stanza Press, March, 2010

ISBN: 1848630802

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When the history of fantasy and horror fiction is being discussed, the pulp magazine Weird Tales is inevitably mentioned. Published on low-grade "pulp" paper, Weird Tales was the first newsstand magazine devoted exclusively to weird and fantastic fiction. It ran for 279 issues, from March 1923 to September 1954.

The three most important and influential writers to have their work published in the title were Rhode Island horror writer H.P. Lovecraft; the Texan creator of Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard; and the California poet, short story writer, illustrator and sculptor, Clark Ashton Smith.

"The Complete Poems from Weird Tales" series collects their verse in the order that it originally appeared in the pages of "The Unique Magazine".

"CLARK ASHTON SMITH(1893-1961) was a poet, short story writer, illustrator and sculptor. One of the "big three" authors to appear in the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales-alongside H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard - his fiction and artwork was published in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies and collections. For most of his sixty-eight years, Smith lived in a small cabin in the woods near Auburn, California, and during his lifetime he published nearly twice as many books of poetry than he did short stories." - Stephen Jones

CONTENTS

The Garden of Evil

The Red Moon

Solution

The Melancholy Pool

A Fable

Interrogation

The Saturnienne

Warning

Sonnet

Nyctalops

The Nightmare Tarn

Fantaisie d'Antan

Ougabalya

Shadows

Fellowship

In Slumber

Dominion

In Thessaly

Ennui

Song of the Necromancer

To Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Outlanders

Farewell to Eros

The Prophet Speaks

Bacchante

The Phoenix

Witch Dance

Necromancy

Dialogue

Desert Dweller

The Sorcerer to His Love

Resurrection

To the Chimera

Do You Forget, Enchantress?

Luna Aeternalia

"Not Altogether Sleep"

Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts

"O Golden-Tongued Romance"

Don Quixote on Market Street