I forget if this has been asked before, but any chance of seeing a collection of Clark Ashton Smith stories? He was a brilliant author, and for some reason today he's almost forgotten.
And how about Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson?
You read this one? What is it like?
I still have to get around to House On the Borderlands, and The Night Land, but have read a few short stories and his ghostbreaker.
Nightshade might be doing these perhaps, not sure if they are fancy hardbacks or not.
Along the Planetary Romance lines, this online story is fun - and actually from the original Planet Stories mag. Not in our Solar System, but similar sort of stuff, plus dimensional gateways to Earth, etc. Heaps of cool old stuff here.
http://freesf.blogspot.com/2009/03/fog-of-forgotten-basil-wells.html
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I forget if this has been asked before, but any chance of seeing a collection of Clark Ashton Smith stories? He was a brilliant author, and for some reason today he's almost forgotten.
And how about Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson?
Both are available as part of the Gollancz/Orbit "Fantasy Masterworks" line.
The book of Clark Ashton Smith's stories (The Emperor of Dreams, published 2002) contains:
Song of the Necromancer
The Abominations of Yondo
The Ninth Skeleton
The Last Incantation
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
The Return of the Sorcerer
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
The Door to Saturn
The Gorgon
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
The Nameless Offspring
The Empire of the Necromancers
The Hunters from Beyond
The Isle of the Torturers
The Beast of Averoigne
Genius Loci
Ubbo-Sathla
The Kiss of Zoraida
The Seed from the Sepulcher
Thw Weaver in the Vault
The Ghoul
The Charnel God
The Death of Malygris
The Tomb-Spawn
The Seven Geases
Xeethra
The Dark Eidolon
The Flower-Women
The Treader of the Dust
The Black Abbot of Puthuum
Necromancy in Nast
The Death of Ilalotha
The Garden of Adompha
Mother of Toads
The Double Shadow
The Coming of the White Worm
The Root of Ampoi
Morthylla
An Offering to the Moon
The Theft of Thirty-Nine Gardens
Symposium of the Gorgon
Told in the Desert
Prince Alcouz and the Magician
A Good Embalmer
The Mortuary
Can't speak for how abridged they are.
Willaim Hope Hodgeson's collection (The House on the Borderlands and Other Novels, published 2002) is my current reading matter and contains:
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
The House on the Borderland
The Ghost Pirates
The Night Land
Again, can't comment on how true these are to the original tales.
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I think Tama of the Light Country and Tama Princess of Mercury are as good as Kline's Maza of the Moon, which is perhaps not quite as good as his Mars or Venus books, but still fun to read.
I have read fairly wretched stories by both authors. Honestly I think Kline at his worst (A Vision of Venus, Race Around the Moon) is probably worse than the worst Cummings I have read (Onslaught of the Druid-Girls), but that is like trying to find the bottom of an endless pit.
I think Tama of the Light Country and Tama Princess of Mercury are as good as Kline's Maza of the Moon, which is perhaps not quite as good as his Mars or Venus books, but still fun to read.
I have read fairly wretched stories by both authors. Honestly I think Kline at his worst (A Vision of Venus, Race Around the Moon) is probably worse than the worst Cummings I have read (Onslaught of the Druid-Girls), but that is like trying to find the bottom of an endless pit.
Thanks, I have read Maza, that was only average. So, might be worth a look then, Miss Tama. Not read any Venus books.
I have the Ace edition of Maza of the Moon. Can anyone tell me if it, dare I even ask, is abridged?
I forget if this has been asked before, but any chance of seeing a collection of Clark Ashton Smith stories? He was a brilliant author, and for some reason today he's almost forgotten.
And how about Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson?
Both are available as part of the Gollancz/Orbit "Fantasy Masterworks" line.
The book of Clark Ashton Smith's stories (The Emperor of Dreams, published 2002) contains:
Song of the Necromancer
The Abominations of Yondo
The Ninth Skeleton
The Last Incantation
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
The Return of the Sorcerer
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
The Door to Saturn
The Gorgon
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan
The Nameless Offspring
The Empire of the Necromancers
The Hunters from Beyond
The Isle of the Torturers
The Beast of Averoigne
Genius Loci
Ubbo-Sathla
The Kiss of Zoraida
The Seed from the Sepulcher
Thw Weaver in the Vault
The Ghoul
The Charnel God
The Death of Malygris
The Tomb-Spawn
The Seven Geases
Xeethra
The Dark Eidolon
The Flower-Women
The Treader of the Dust
The Black Abbot of Puthuum
Necromancy in Nast
The Death of Ilalotha
The Garden of Adompha
Mother of Toads
The Double Shadow
The Coming of the White Worm
The Root of Ampoi
Morthylla
An Offering to the Moon
The Theft of Thirty-Nine Gardens
Symposium of the Gorgon
Told in the Desert
Prince Alcouz and the Magician
A Good Embalmer
The MortuaryCan't speak for how abridged they are.
Willaim Hope Hodgeson's collection (The House on the Borderlands and Other Novels, published 2002) is my current reading matter and contains:
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
The House on the Borderland
The Ghost Pirates
The Night LandAgain, can't comment on how true these are to the original tales.
Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it. I'll have to hunt for these books, just as soon as I get a few more Paizo Pathfinder books. ;)
And how about Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson?
You read this one? What is it like?
If you like horror and weirdness mixed with high adventure, you'll love it. It would make a magnificent basis for a D&D adventure in my opinion.
I have the Ace edition of Maza of the Moon. Can anyone tell me if it, dare I even ask, is abridged?I believe this one is not abridged, remarkably.
Thanks a lot! I wonder how it slipped by.
Thanks Eric with a C, adventure and weirdness sounds ok to me. Have to add this to my Palm with the other two, then.
More Clark Ashton Smith (done likewise the other day) is at http://www.eldritchdark.com/
It has everything, letters, poems, articles, whatever. If you like this bloke, there's your website.
Willaim Hope Hodgeson's collection (The House on the Borderlands and Other Novels, published 2002) is my current reading matter and contains:
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
The House on the Borderland
The Ghost Pirates
The Night Land
Hodgeson is new to me. Anybody read any of these? Was the House on the Borderland his biggest book? Any opinions?
Thanks! Was this review word of mouth, or posted?
A note on archaic style: Unlike apparently everyone who hates it (period), I don't mind it in theory, as long as it doesn't seem fake...like The Worm Ouroboros seemed to me. Of course, I'm not sure that there is a reality to correspond to my theory. Just having read lots of English from 16-18th centuries, I'd be fine if someone could write fantasy fiction in English of those periods.