Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith

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Edited by: Steve Behrends, Donald Sydney-Fryer, Rah Hoffman

Greenwood Press, US: (1989)

ISBN: 0-313-26611-5, H/B, 281pp, green boards, no dust wrapper

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction by Robert Block
• A Note on the Contents

Fantastic Fiction

Completed Stories

• A Good Embalmer
• Double Cosmos
• Strange Shadows | I Am Your Shadow
• Nemesis of the Unfinished
• The Dart of Rasasfa

Variant Versions of Published Stories

• The Beast of Averoigne
• The Coming of the White Worm
• In the Book of Vergama

Fragmentary Stories with Accompanying Synopses

• The Ocean-World of Alioth (Synopsis and Fragment)
• Ascharia (Synopsis and Fragment)
• The Master of Destruction (Synopsis and Fragment)
• ^Slaves of the Black Pillar^ [The Drug from Algol] (Synopsis and Fragment)
• The Music of Death (Synopsis and Fragment)

Fragmentary Stories

• ^In A Hashish-Dream^ [A Tale of Hashish-Land] (Fragment)
• The Eggs from Saturn (Fragment)
• The Lord of Lunacy (Fragment)
• The Infernal Star (Fragment)
• The House of Haon-Dor (Fragment)
• Shapes of Adamant (Fragment)
• Eviction by Night (Fragment)
• Mandor's Enemy (Fragment)
• Mnemoka (Fragment)
• The Point of the Jest (Fragment)
• Chincharrero (Fragment)
• Unquiet Boundary (Fragment)
• Wingless Phoenix (Fragment)
• Djinn without A Bottle (Fragment)

Synopses

• Vizaphmal in Ophiuchus (Synopsis)
• The Sorceress of Averoigne | The Tower of Istarelle (Synopsis)
• The Atmospheric Entity (Synopsis)
• The Minotaur's Brother (Synopsis)
• Offspring of the Grave (Synopsis)
• I Am A Witch (Synopsis)
• The Feet of Sidaiva (Synopsis)
• The Crabs of Iribos (Synopsis)
• Beyond the Rose-Arbor (Synopsis)
• Maker of Prodigies (Synopsis)
• Queen of the Sabbat (Synopsis)
• The Pilgrim of Eternity (Synopsis)
• The Menace of the Dust (Synopsis)
• The Galley from Atlantis (Synopsis)
• The Trilithon (Synopsis)
• The Transformation of Athanor (Synopsis)
• A Gift from the Beloved (Synopsis)
• The Double Dream (Synopsis)
• The Youngest Vampire (Synopsis)
• The God of the Asteroid (Synopsis)
• Poseidon (Synopsis)
• The Mummy-Case of Hammen-Tha (Synopsis)
• Dead Assassins (Synopsis)
• From A Lost World (Synopsis)
• Prisoners of the Black Dimension (Synopsis)
• The Entity of the Sands (Synopsis)
• Hecate (Synopsis)
• ^The Ghoul from Mercury^ the Corposant] (Synopsis)
• The Moon-Spectre (Synopsis)
• The Thing from the Antarctic (Synopsis)
• The Conquest of Mercury (Synopsis)
• A Misadventure of Don Juan (Synopsis)
• Neria (Synopsis)
• The Hyperborean City (Synopsis)
• ^The Devotee of Evil^ [The Manichaean] (Synopsis)
• The Testament of Athammaus (Synopsis)
• The Mechanical Murder (Synopsis)
• Between Two Worlds (Synopsis)
• The Planet of the Dead (Synopsis)
• The Dome in the Ice (Synopsis)
• The Empire of the Necromancers (Synopsis)
• The Invisible City (Synopsis)
• The Re-Union (Synopsis)
• A Star-Change (Synopsis)
• ^A Good Embalmer^ [The Undertakers] (Synopsis)
• The World-Maker (Synopsis)
• The Supernumerary Corpse (Synopsis)
• ^The Cypress^ [The Baobab] (Synopsis)
• A Sojourn in Mercury (Synopsis)
• ^An Excursion in Time^ [The Time-Traveller] (Synopsis)
• The ^Elder^[Other] Manor (Synopsis)
• The Moraine (Synopsis)
• Men of the Macrocosm (Synopsis)
• The Lunar Path (Synopsis)
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• The Other Entity (Synopsis)
• The Vapor from the Void (Synopsis)
• The Vaults of ^Yoh-Vombis^ [Abomi] (Synopsis)
• The ^Burial-Place^ [Interment] of the Unknown (Synopsis)
• The Arm from the Fig-Tree (Synopsis)
• The Scarab (Synopsis)
• ^The Spectral Tarn^ [The Lake] (Synopsis)
• The Vestibule of the Past (Synopsis)
• The Nameless Offspring (Synopsis)
• The Mysterious Poison (Synopsis)
• The Invisible Satellite (Synopsis)
• The Protean People (Synopsis)
• The Destination of Gideon Balcoth (Synopsis)
• The After-Men (Synopsis)
• A Tale of Gnydron (Synopsis)
• The Invisible Devourer (Synopsis)
• The Weird of ^Avoosal^ [Oosal] [Oothal] [Zoon] Wuthoqquan (Synopsis)
• The Demon ^From^ [Of] Alphard (Synopsis)
• ^The Werewolf of Averoigne^ [THE LOUP-GAROU] (Synopsis)
• The Disinterment of Venus (Synopsis)
• [The Gargoyle of Vyones] (Synopsis)
• The ^Maker^ [Carver] of Gargoyles (Synopsis)
• A Bottle On the ^Orinoco^ [Amazon] (Synopsis)
• A ^Vintage^ [Jar] from Atlantis (Synopsis)
• The Cairn (Synopsis)
• titles (2)
• The Cairn (New Ending)
• titles (3)
• The Empire of the Necromancers (Long Synopsis)
• The River of Mystery (Synopsis)
• The Rebirth of the Flame (Synopsis)
• ^Across the Time-Stream^ [The Eternal World] (Synopsis)
• The Invisible City (Long Synopsis)
• The Immortals of Mercury
• The Lunar Brain (Synopsis)
• Prisoners of the Black Dimension (title only)
• The Beast of Averoigne (Short Synopsis)
• The Inverse Avatar (Synopsis)
• The Double Shadow (Synopsis)
• The Cosmic Sequel (Synopsis)
• The Embassy to Tiirath (Synopsis)
• Ubbo-Sathla (Synopsis)
• The Beast of Averoigne (Long Synopsis)
• The Flower-Women (Synopsis)
• ^Vulthoom^ [Beach Combers of Mars] (Synopsis)
• Titles
• Fantastic Names

Non-Fantastic Fiction

• The Flirt
• The Perfect Woman
• Gossip
• A Platonic Entanglement
• The Expert Lover
• The Parrot
• A Copy of Burns
• Checkmate

Prose-Poems and Plays

• The City of Destruction (A Fragment)
• The Lake of Enchanted Silence
• Preference
• The Days
• Offering
• The Mortuary
• The Frozen Waterfall
• The Osprey and the Shark
• The Land of Fruitful Palms
• The Fugitives (Play)
• ^Venus^[Aphrodite] And The Priest
• The Dead will Cuckold You

Miscellaneous Non-Fiction and Prose

• Account of an Actual Dream - 1912
• Argument of 'The Hashish-Eater'
• Introduction to 'Shadows of Wings'
• Cigarette Characterization
• On the art of Ephraim Doner
• Introduction to 'Wine of Wonder'
• Notes

Appendices

• The Lost worlds of Clark Ashton Smith
• Don Carter's Outline for "Nemesis of the Unfinished"
• The Black Book: Addenda

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