The Double Shadow

On my diurnal commute, shortly after the hour when I am accustomed to delivering my one decade-old young progeny to her institute of learning this very morn, I had the pleasure of listening--not to the desultory hum of the expressway along which I sped with all dispatch--but rather to the modulating......more

'The Double Shadow' was published in 1933 before the 'The Death of Malygris' (1934) which seems to succeed it in terms of the internal chronology of the Poseidonis cycle although this may be down to later revisions. Again, the basic horror story line is simple enough - an invocation of something demo......more

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. Halloween is right around the corner, so I thought I’d get in the mood by reading a collection of spooky stories by Clark Ashton Smith, a writer and poet who’s known for his contributions to the pulp magazine Weird Tales. Smith was a friend of H.P. Lovecraft a......more

The debut volume of six C.A.S. tales self published back in 1933. I've not been the greatest fan of his as I am not a 'fantasy' reader per se and I can only accept so many names and places such as Cyntrom, Urovrau (son of Karpoom), all of which appear within the first two paragraphs of the first tale......more