I've just noticed that two recent Arkham House Books, Nelson Bond's Other Worlds Than Ours (2005) and Milt Thomas' Cave of a Thousand Tales (2004) list "Return to Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith" in "Other Recent Books from Arkham House" on the back flap of the dust-jacket.

Does anyone know if Arkham ever planned a further Smith collection, or is this just bad editing of the dust-jacket copy and they are really referring to the 2003 reprint of A Rendezvous in Averoigne. I'm not certain that I believe they would make a mistake twice. Besides, there are many books which AH announced but never published over the years.

- Rtrace

My money is on "bad editing". It would most likely (I'm guessing) be bad publishing policy to use two titles that are so similar to each other. Besides, the fact that it is listed as a recent book sounds like a dead give-away. And the book hasn't even been announced either.

Yrs
Martin