The second act is a direct poetic interpretation of The Last Incantation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mf196V5yPJgOxYzSe-MCtd6PQF6StAGn/view?usp=sharing
(Link to Drive since Reddit formatting is less than ideal)

Let me know what you think!

Hey, I've been a fan of Clark's material for almost a decade and I actually want to purchase physical copies of his corpus, partially but not wholly due Eldritch Dark no longer hosting the his content digitally. Is there any comprehensive physical omnibus's or only the collections as published in his time?

I've been looking for an online copy of this tribute to CAS which has all kinds of reminiscences and appreciations by other writers. It was a chapbook with apparently only 450 copies sold. (Images of the cover almost look like it was photocopies.)

But I can't find a copy and wondered if anyone here had any way to get access to it?

Pharpetron, writing that he 'knows not what he is fated to become, ere tomorrow', locked away scrawling away his warning of what he and Avyctes had unleashed upon themselves after decyphering the long forgotten language of the lost Serpent People.

I believe that this forgotten form of life are one and the same.

Ubbo-Sathla.

If I'm correct, could this count as perhaps one of fictions earliest 'easter eggs' ?

Hi,

I’m currently digitizing my book library. I’m hopeful to get all Smith’s cycles on.epub

Averoigne, zothique, hyperborea etc etc

Any help? Please don’t send me to the fan site, or webpage.

Looking for the digital books and don’t mind paying.

The "Contact ED" webpage for the Eldritch Dark website goes to a blank page, so I'm seeing if anyone here knows an alternate way to contact the site owner, Boyd Pearson, such as by a reddit account or something. I doubt I'll have any luck, but thought I would ask just in case.

The problem was I recently tried to make an account for the forum at the Eldritch Dark website, which stated on attempting to register that a verification email would send, but I never received the email. I tried the password reset option, which didn't send an email either. I also tried to register the same username and email again, but the system said on the second try that it was already in use, so apparently the system logged the username I entered as registered the first time, but I can't log into it without the verification email.

Hey! Looking for other authors similar to CAS—particularly more recent ones, rather than Poe. A few that come to mind for me include: Brian Stableford Gene Wolfe And maaaaaaybe Thomas Ligotti, but I think that’s a bit of a stretch.

Similarly, WT cohorts like CL Moore, Lovecraft, or even the younger generation of pulp writers like Fritz Lieber, Kuttner, and Vance wouldn’t really count for the purpose of the question, despite their similarities to CAS. Really interested to see what the group has to say on this topic!

Tony Walker just narrated The Beast of Averoigne, not one of my favourites as CAS is keeping it real in Averoigne and not completely diving into phantasmagoria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eR2mU2K_nM

If you are a reader, not a listener, I would check out the AI art he picked.

It is...appropriately out there for a CAS story :)

I asked him to do some of the crazier ones but I honestly don't know much CAS except the Librivox, HorrorBabble and a few other recordings on YouTube.

Librivox thankfully covers The Charnel God and various necromancy ones that might get a content creator demonetized for ... the necrophilia CAS used to pop in for free advertising ... and ... fun?

Anyway, what is a great story from a book that doesn't show up on a search of YouTube?

Eldritch Dark seems to have an exhaustive list of stories:

http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/

Are any of these good? I don't remember listening to them:

• Double Cosmos
• The Emir's Captive
• Fakhreddin
• The Fulfilled Prophecy
• The Haunted Chamber
• The Immortals of Mercury
• The Light from the Pole

HorrorBabble's CAS playlist showed me quite a few I didn't know about but they are not bangers like Yondo, Yoh Vombis, Dweller, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odRe90qi-j0&list=PLeNNKRLWxwoMd3hyVZOXrZKy3TJfeTxRd

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This is Tony Walker doing an Algernon Blackwood piece about Egypt, it is like a writing exercise but mesmerizing and he is just swimming in words, it reminded me of CAS's writing if not subject matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzHEy25TkCc

Tony really knocks those long dreamy ones out of the park.

I guess The Uncharted Isle would be a great match for his dream like narration style but its been done.

Any ideas?

Back in the 50's, Clark Ashton Smith recorded himself reading some of his poetry with a friend, which then went on cassette in the 90's. This cassette is fairly rare now, so when I saw one available for fairly cheap, I grabbed it and digitized it so that it would be better preserved. You can get the file for the audio, and files for scans of the booklet that came with it, below:

The Elder Tapes recording: https://archive.org/details/clark-ashton-smith-live-from-auburn-the-elder-tapes

Scans of the booklet and cassette: https://archive.org/details/clark-ashton-smith-live-from-aubrun-the-elder-tapes-booklet-and-cassette/Clark%20Ashton%20Smith%20Live%20from%20Aubrun%20The%20Elder%20Tapes%20Booklet/

The first voice is a friend introducing him. The voice reading the poetry is Clark Ashton Smith. He sounds a bit different from how I imagined him, which I assume is due to his age. I am a little saddened that we don't have a recording of him reading "The Hashish Eater", though.

Does anyone know if any of Clark Ashton Smith’s have ever come up for auction?

i think i learned about clark ashton smith not through horrorbabble but through the documentary made on lovecraft and then first listened to his stories through horrorbabble.