Scott Connors
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The Freedom of Fantastic Things
Scott Connors
As poet, fiction writer, and artist, Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) has left an indelible mark on the fields of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. But criticism of his bountiful and varied work has been surprisingly scanty, and oftentimes ill-informed. The Freedom of Fantastic Things represents the most substantial volume of criticism of Smith’s work ever published, and includes both original and previously published work by the leading scholars on Smith.
The Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith
David E. Schultz, Scott Connors
Long heralded as the master literary sorcerer of American dark fantasy, Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) finally comes into his own with this significant collection of 276 annotated letters to his closest friends—George Sterling, Samuel Loveman, Frank Belknap Long, H.P. Lovecraft, Donald Wandrei, August Derleth, Robert H. Barlow and others. With only a minimal education, Smith’s reclusive lifestyle in a small cabin in the woods near Auburn, California, and his insatiable reading, led him to begin writing poetry during his early teens. His poetry came to the…
