Re: Clark Ashton Smith audio recordings
Posted by:
Scott Connors (IP Logged)
Date: 1 January, 2003 02:54AM
There is an audio recording of "The Return of the Sorceror" on a "Pharoah Audiobook" edition of ROD SERLING'S NIGHT GALLERY READER, volume 4 (published by Pharoah Audiobooks, P. O. Box 10393, Sedona, AZ 86339). This two-tape set also includes Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" and Russell Kirk's "Sorworth Place."
Earlier, the monologist Theodore Gottlieb, aka "Brother Theodore," read an adaptation of "The Willow Landscape" as part of his night club act. Gottlieb was a friend of Smith's. This reading occurs on CORAL RECORDS PRESENTS THEODORE IN STEREO (CRL 757322). I am trying to get both of these transferred to CD, and plan on sending them in to Boyd to post. The Brother Theodore reading is an especial delight, since it is a pleasure to see these two giants united in this way.
Dr. Farmer is correct about having to hear Smith to appreciate his genius to the fullest. Clark wrote to the poetry magazine EPOS that music and magic were the two most important factors in his poetry, and his words are indeed incantations.
Yrs at the moment when aeons change,
Scott Connors