By Clark Ashton Smith
A much-awaited selection of prose and poetry from one of many nice cosmic masters of the supernatural
not only any fable, horror, and technological know-how fiction writer may galvanize H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by way of the other author, lifeless or living” or compel Fritz Lieber to hire the priceless time period sui generis. Clark Ashton Smith—autodidact, prolific poet, novice thinker, extraordinary sculptor, and unrivaled storyteller—simply wrote like nobody else, earlier than or in view that. This new choice of his best possible stories and poems is chosen and brought by means of supernatural literature student S. T. Joshi and permits readers to come across Smith’s visionary model of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, every one choked with invention, terror, and a superlative feel of metaphysical ask yourself.
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Or maybe a brain surgeon. I can just imagine him holding my little brain in the palms of his hands. Darla looked as though she were ready to drool. Fortunately our desserts arrived at the moment and, entranced as she was with Mr. Gorgeous, she likes baked Alaska even more. We lazed over our decaffeinated coffee until I glanced at my watch. Darla, it is ten oclock! Ive got to get some sleep or Ill blow my interview tomorrow. No chance. Its a formality. I bent to pick up my purse from the floor and out of the corner of my eye saw the handsome object of our little game.
What if Id tried to drive? Even if I didnt back right through my garage door, I still might have hit a fence or tree. Or maybe I would have felt the need to speed while I took my ill nephew to the hospital. Then I would have had to explain to some nice police officer why my beloved nephew seriously resembled a Pekingese. Worse yet, what if I had put the boys and not Chipper into the car and had an accident? The thought chilled me. I could have hurt or killed them. I felt my tears leak onto the tops of my hands as I listened to poor, innocent Chipper recover from his toddler carseat trauma.
Other than that crazed hamster, I mean. Hes not crazed. Hes sensitive, thats all. Whenever Hammie perceives that Im upset, he gets upset, tooand begins to run on that wheel of his until I settle down. Hes become a great predictor of my emotions. Hes also made my home a much calmer place. I have to stay calmdeep breathing and envisioning a sunny place with vast white beaches and dolphins playing in the surfotherwise the sound of that whirring, rattling wheel in his cage would drive me nuts. Theres a lady in my spinning class who was very interested in what you do.
