Found quite an interesting interview with Rain Graves in which she comments on CAS thus:

Quote:

Clark Ashton Smith because he was like the little dark romantic side of the kind of writing that era had to offer - a bit more smooth and polished than Lovecraft, in my opinion.

[www.sfmag.net]


Have to admit that I had not heard of her before but, as she won a Bram Stoker award for poetry I plan to look her up.
B.

Interesting... I may have to check her out. i hope she's not another Anne Rice or Poppy Z. Brite!

I like Poppy and Rice bores me.

having read the interview the following thoughts:

The interviewer is altogether too pompous-precious

The young lady is Very San Francisco self-absorbed, but interesting
enough -- her tale of having a great idea in the middle of the night
originally was told some years ago by another writer (probably
Maugham) and the note he left himself that would key the great work that would save mankind and transform the universe by revealing its deepest secrets was "hogamus higamus, men are polygamous - higamus hogamus, women monogamous."

Who are the judges who give out the awards, and what qualifies them?
We will definitely have to read some of this kid's stuff.
Dr. F