Re: CAS Influence? James Thomson's "The City of Dreadful Night"
Posted by:
metsat00 (IP Logged)
Date: 12 May, 2013 03:01PM
Aloha and mahalo Jim,
Just got the Kindle Version of CAS: A Critical Guide to the Man and His Work, 2nd Edition. Your well-written review in the Kindle Store is appreciated, and points to the importance of on-line communities such as The Eldritch Dark. Had it not been for this site, I shudder to think of how much of the man's inspirational work I would never have discovered.
One would hope that a future author would take advantage of the wealth of information available here and, through careful scholarship, make available in printed or on-line books an absolutely comprehensive corpus of CAS' work. For instance, a Kindle book called "Everything Clark Ashton Smith Ever Wrote" with all of his short stories, poems, prose poems, artwork, correspondence and an exhaustive bibliography which would be updated periodically as new information was received. Sortable via the date it was written or by genre or subject (e.g., poems, Averoigne, etc). Perhaps with a pricing structure such as $XX for the book and $1/year for updates? I'd buy it!
Sandor