Thanks to OldJoe, for sending me photographs out of his copy of Hippocampus Press'
The Complete Poetry and Translations of Clark Ashton Smith, I've typed up an amateurish transcript of an extremely rare piece of juvenilia, "A Dream of Vathek." Some of you know about CAS' hand in completing William Beckford's unfinished "Third Episode of Vathek", in which a palace of nightmares and a fiery-tailed baboon appear, but I had no clue he ventured into Vathek's world more than once in his writing, this time in the form of a lengthy poetic dialogue with a story. As a piece that was written in his early youth, it's nothing compared to his later work, but it's competent enough to read through, and interesting historically when you consider how much
Vathek appeared to influence him.
Here is the piece:
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Any errors in my document will be duly edited by me, if OldJoe (or others) find any!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 20 Aug 20 | 01:27AM by Hespire.