Re: Which of Smith's stories were his favorites?
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jdworth (IP Logged)
Date: 20 May, 2014 12:21AM
In part I'm responding to what I assume was the original version of this post, which showed up in my mailbox (the text there differs considerably from what is here). On the subject of articles... you might want to consider, first, those here on the site, particularly (given your questions) that under the heading of "Biographies", though the "Criticism" section might also be of interest. Then there is Eric Barker's piece in Donald Sidney-Fryer's Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography. Also look into E. Hoffmann Price's Book of the Dead which, as I recall, deals with Smith more than once. And even L. Sprague de Camp's Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers may be something you'd find to your taste, with its chapter on the "Sierran Shaman". Dr. Farmer and others would surely be able to suggest a great many more, but these may help to get you started....