The Fantasy Fan Magazine Presents: Writings of Clark Ashton Smith


Read by Ben Tucker

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Collected here are all of Clark Aston Smith's writings he submitted to The Fantasy Fan Magazine. The Fantasy Fan Magazine was a periodical dedicated to people professing their love of and celebrating fantasy and weird fiction. In addition to the opinion pieces and non-fiction articles, The Fantasy Fan also included many short stories and poems by some of the authors it celebrated such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith, a personal favorite of editor Charles D. Hornig. Smith contributed quite a variety of stories, poems and articles to The Fantasy Fan over its two-year tenure. From the weird and creepy journeys to unknown worlds of "The Kingdom of the Worm" and "The Primal City" to the strange and haunting poetry of "A Dream of the Abyss" and "Necromancy" to the insightful essays on M. R. James and fantastic fiction in general, Smith shows the breadth of his writing skill within the pages of this sadly short-lived 'zine. (Summary by Ben Tucker) (1 hr 43 min)

Chapters

The Kingdom of the Worm 20:02 Read by Ben Tucker
A Dream of the Abyss 2:38 Read by Ben Tucker
The Ghoul 12:42 Read by Ben Tucker
The Weird Works of M. R. James 7:35 Read by Ben Tucker
Revenant 2:53 Read by Ben Tucker
Prose Pastels I. Chinoiserie 2:34 Read by Ben Tucker
Prose Pastels II. The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony 2:27 Read by Ben Tucker
Prose Pastels III. The Muse of Hyperborea 2:10 Read by Ben Tucker
Prose Pastels IV. The Lotus and the Moon 1:35 Read by Ben Tucker
Prose Pastels V. The Passing of Aphrodite 6:21 Read by Ben Tucker
The Epiphany of Death 12:51 Read by Ben Tucker
Necromancy 1:23 Read by Ben Tucker
Clark Ashton Smith: An Autiobiographette 1:56 Read by Ben Tucker
On Fantasy 4:31 Read by Ben Tucker
The Favorite Weird Stories of Clark Ashton Smith 1:05 Read by Ben Tucker
The Demonian Face 1:23 Read by Ben Tucker
Medusa 2:54 Read by Ben Tucker
The Primal City 16:31 Read by Ben Tucker