A recent story on NPR's Weekend Edition included a mention of Smith. Here's a segment from the interview with April Derleth:
ANNOUNCER: A row of tiny leering faces greet her at the shipping counter.
DERLETH: Those are our statues by Clark Ashton Smith. He's probably our next most popular author besides Lovecraft. He was sort of a different sort. He was married but he ran off for a while in a cabin and would carve out these statues out of native stone. Used to scare the heck out of me as a kid.
You can find the whole thing here:
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