Known Influences

• Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867) [Charles Pierre Baudelaire Biography]
• Beckford, William (1760-1844)[William Beckford: The Fool of Fonthill]
• Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1818) [SELECTED POETRY OF THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES]
• Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?) [Ambrose Bierce ]
• Blavatsky, H. P. (1831-1891)The Secret Doctrine [Theosophy Library Online]
• Browne, Thomas (1605-1682) [Sir Thomas Browne page]
• Chambers, Robert W. (1865-1933)[Robert W. Chambers - Research Project]
• Dunsany, Lord (1878-1957) [Lord Dunsany]
• Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) [GUSTAVE FLAUBERT]
• French, Nora May (1881-1907) [Nora May French .org]
• Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872) [Théophile Gautier]
• Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904) [Lafcadio Hearn Biography]
• Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) [Electronic resources related to G.M. Hopkins]
• Huysmans, de Joris-Karl (1848-1866) [À Rebours]
• Keats, John (1795-1821) [Selected Poetry of John Keats]
• Khayyam, Omar (Abu al-Fath Omar ben Ibrahim al-Khayyam)(1050-1122) [The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam]
• Lindsay, Vachel (1879–1931) [Vachel Lindsay ]
• Lovecraft, H.P (1890-1937) [H. P. Lovecraft]
• Machen, Arthur (1863-1947) [Arthur Machen]
• Poe, E A (1809-1848) (whose poems Smith discovered at age thirteen.) (Listed "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Masque of the Red Death" as his favorites) [Edgar A. Poe]
• Reid, Henry
• Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) [Arthur Rimbaud]
• Sterling, George (1869-1926) [George Sterling]
• Summers, Montague (1880-1948) [Controverscial.Com]
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) [SELECTED POETRY OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE]
• Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) [Dylan Thomas Home Page]
• Vonnegut, Kurt (1922-)[Kurt Vonnegut Jr. HomePage]
• Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) [Oscar Wilde]

Correspondents, Friends and any one else who meet him

• Ackerman, Forrest J (1916-) [Forrest J Ackerman's Wide Webbed World]
• Anger, William Frederick (1921-?)
• Barker, Eric (1905-1973)
• Baldwin, Franklin Lee (1913-1987)
• Barlow, Robert Hayward (1918-1951) [Biography]
• Beck, Claire P. (1919-1999)
• Carter, Don (?-?)
• Coblentz, Stanton A (1896-1982) [Bibliography]
• Cockcroft, Thomas G. L (?-)
• Coolbrith, Ina (1881-1927) [Ina Coolbrith]
• de Camp, L(yon) Sprague (1907-2000) [Official L. Sprague de Camp Website] [Bio]
• DeCasseres, Benjamin (1873-1945)
• Derleth, August (1909-1971)[August Derleth Society Website ]
• Dunlap, Boutwell (1877-1930)
• Elder, Robert Baker (1920?-?)
• Farmer, W.C. (Dr) (?-)
• Frahm, Richard (1930-) [Richard Frahm on Clark Ashton Smith]
• Freehafer, Paul (1916-1944)
• Greene, Madelynne (Mrs. Eric Barker) (?-?)
• Haas, George F (1906-1978)
• Hasse, Henry (1913-1977)
• Hamilton, Edmond (1904-1977) [Edmond Hamilton Bibliography]
• Hamilton, Emily I (?-?)
• Heiple, Ethel (1899-1980) [Ethel Heiple on Clark Ashton Smith]
• Heyer, Violet Nelson 1905-1996)
• Robert A. Hoffman ("Rah") (1920-) [Bibliography]
• Hornig, Charles D. (1916-1999)
• Howard, Robert E. (1906-1936) [Robert E Howard Bibliography]
• Hoyt, Helen (?-?)
• Johnson, Robert Barbour (1909-?)
• Kirk, George Willard (1898-1962)
• Kuttner, Henry (1915-1958) [Bibliography]
• Kyle, David A. (1919-)
• Laney, Francis T (1914-1958) [Syllabus for a Fanzine]
• LaVey, Anton Szandor (1930-1997)[Anton LaVey: Legend and Reality]
• Leiber, Fritz (1910-1992) [Lankhmar - The Fritz Leiber Home Page]
• Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931) [Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)]
• Long, Frank Belknap (1901-1994)
• Lovecraft, H.P (1890-1937) [H. P. Lovecraft]
• Loveman, Samuel (1887-1976)
• Lyman, William Whittingham (1885-?)
• Petaja, Emil (1915-2000) [Wikipedia:Emil Petaja]
• Price, E. Hoffman (Trooper) (1898-1988)
• Rimel, Duane W(eldon) (1915-1996)
• Sackett, Samuel J.  (1928-)
• Schenck, Marian {nee Sully}(1911-1994)
• Sully, Genevieve K. (mother of Helen) (?-?) [Genevieve K. Sully on Clark Ashton Smith]
• Sterling, George (1869-1926) [George Sterling]
• Sidney-Fryer, Donald (1934-) [Donald Sidney-Fryer]
• Trimble, Helen {nee Sully}(1904-1997)
• Turner, Ethel Duffy (1885-1969)
• Vernon, Roy (1915-1986)
• Wandrei, Donald (1908-1987) []
• Williamson, Jack (1908-)

Modern writers who have credited Smith with influencing their work

• Bradbury, Ray (1920-) [Official Site]
• Carter, Lin (1930-1988) [In Memoriam Lin Carter ]
• de Camp, L(yon) Sprague (1907-?) [Bio]
• Ellison, Harlan (1934-) [Official Harlan Ellison Page]
• Howard, Robert E. (1906-1936) [Robert E Howard Bibliography]
• Lovecraft, H.P (1890-1937) [H. P. Lovecraft]
• McNaughton, Brian (1935-2004) [Bibliography]
• Moorcock, Michael (1939-) [Michael Moorcock]
• Silverberg, Robert (1935-) [Quasi-Official Robert Silverberg Homepage]
• Sturgeon, Theodore (1918-1985) [The Works of Theodore Sturgeon]
• Vance, Jack (1916-) [The Jack Vance Information Page]
• Wolfe, Gene (1931-)  [Gene Wolfe]

Witters not already mentioned Recommended to those who like Smith

• Alighier, Dante (1265-1321) [The Divine Comedy (Complete, English)]
• Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) [Guillaume Apollinaire]
• Cabell, James Branch (1879-1958) [James Branch Cabell]
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) [Samuel Taylor Coleridge poems]
• Daniels, Keith Allen (?-) [Keith Allen Daniels]
• Gaiman, Neil (1960-) [NeilGaiman.com]
• Hodgson, William Hope (1877-1918) [William Hope Hodgson]
• Hjort, James William (1953-?) [Zahred's Gallery of Art and Fiction Fantastique]
• Lee, Tanith (1947-) [Daughter of the Night: A Tanith Lee Bibliography]
• Ligotti, Thomas (1953-) [Thomas Ligotti OnLine]
• Mallarmé, Stéphane (1842-1898) [Biography]
• Peake, Mervyn (1911-1968) [Mervyn Peake]
• Scott-Rohan, Michael (1951-) [Bibliography]
• Stableford, Brian (1948-) [Brian Stableford]
• Stapledon, William Olaf (1886-1950) []

Family

• Father: Timeus Ashton Smith (1855-1937), [married 1891]
• Mother: Mary Frances ("Fanny") Gaylord (1850-1935) Born in Mid-west USA.
• Wife: Carolyn Emily Jones Dorman (?-?), [married 1954]
• Step Son: Prof. William Dorman (?-)
• Step Daughter: Terry Kuhn, nee Dorman (?-)
• Uncle: Ed Gaylord (?-?)
• Maternal Grandparents: Hiram and Harriet Gaylord (?-?)(?-?)

Books Smith is known to of read or owned

• At least some off everything on the Influences list.
• Arabian Nights [Sir Richard F. Burton on the Web]
• Weird Tales (the magazine). [Weird Tales]
• Two of Montague Summers's books on vampires. (The Geography of Witchcraft, The History of Demonology and Witchcraft)
• Unabridged dictionary (yes he read the whole thing) [Webster's International 3 volume set].
• Encyclopaedia Brittanica. [Brittanica Online]
• Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels. [The Revolt of the Angels]
• Mythologies of Greece, Rome and India.
• Works on witchcraft.
• Modern and classic poetry.
• Complete sets of the works of Lafcadio Hearn.
• Most everything published by Arkham house.
• Robert Payne's poem The Lord Comes.
• Several works by Allan W. Watts. [Allan Watts]
• Several books by Charles Fort. [Fortean Times] [Fort's works online]
• Everett Harre's Beware After Dark
• Grillot de Givry's Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy
• Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe [full text]
• Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift [full text]
• Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories
• Countless D'Aulnoy fairy tales
• Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
• Robert Graves, "The White Goddess" [Robert Graves on the Web]
• John McDonald, "Lilith" and several others
• works of Dylan Thomas
• Milton, John (1608-1674) [Milton_L homepage]
• Spenser
• Samuel Johnson (loved the quote: Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.)
• Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) [Samuel Pepys Diary]