The Eldritch Dark
The Sanctum of Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961), perhaps best known today for his association with H.P Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, is in his own right a unique master of fantasy, horror and science-fiction. While he considered himself primarily a poet, and wrote over 700 poems and prose poems, it is for his short stories that he is best known today. Clark Ashton Smith was also a self-taught artist whose paintings, drawings and sculptures reflect the phantasmagoric worlds of his fiction.
The Eldritch Dark is a site to facilitate both scholars and fans in their appreciation and study of Clark Ashton Smith and his works.
4 Jul, 2009 7:15PM by Knygatin
“Kyberean Wrote:
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> Likewise, I see Wordsworth as being in many ways
> the "anti-CAS" of the English Romantics, although
> I'd be very curious to know whether CAS ever read
> The Prelude, and, if so, then when.
I… ”
4 Jul, 2009 3:28PM by Kyberean
“Knygatin:
The Hampdenshire Wonder definitely has very little of the "fantastic" in it, aside from the Superhuman title character, although the enigmatic drawing of the character, his oracular utterances, and others' reactions to him, I find… ”
4 Jul, 2009 1:52PM by Scott Connors
“Kyberean Wrote:
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I don't see Blake as
> having had much of an effect on CAS, not even via
> his "prophetic books" (I doubt that the early
> 20th-Century American canon even included Blake
> among the major… ”
4 Jul, 2009 12:37PM by Knygatin
“Knygatin Wrote:
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> I enjoy a supehuman theme, if it concerns
> manipulation of reality towards ecstasy and beauty
> or the bizarre. But not shallow ekshun.
For example, (if you allow me to dissolve the line between writing,… ”
4 Jul, 2009 12:15PM by Knygatin
“I enjoy a supehuman theme, if it concerns manipulation of reality towards ecstasy and beauty or the bizarre. But not shallow ekshun.… ”