Clark Ashton Smith | Audiobook Collection
15 videos • 604 views • by Gates of Imagination Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer, poet, sculptor, painter, and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction short stories. His literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft endured from 1922 until Lovecraft’s death in 1937, leaving a lasting impact on the genre. Smith’s work is characterized by an extraordinarily rich and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective, and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor. His writing style aimed to delude the reader into accepting impossibilities through a sort of verbal black magic, employing prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, and other stylistic resources like an incantation1. His tales transport readers to incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and encounters with fantastic creatures, making him a master of the weird and the fantastical. 🌟📖 Read by Josh Greenwood.