Lost Worlds (Smith collection)
Cover of Lost Worlds
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| Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
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| Cover artist | Burt Trimpey and Clark Ashton Smith |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy, horror, science fiction short story collection |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
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Publication date
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1944 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 419 pp |
Lost Worlds is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by author Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1944 and was the author's second book published by Arkham House. 2,043 copies were printed.
The stories for this volume were selected by the author. The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Hyperborea, Atlantis, Averoigne, Zothique and Xiccarph.
Lost Worlds contains the following tales:
New York Times reviewer Marjorie Farber declared that "What is most fascinating about the present volume is the sort of obfuscatory prose which readers of Weird Tales, etc. are apparently willing to overcome for the sake of getting at whatever terror may lie at the end of the skull-dotted trail", concluding that Lost Worlds "cannot be read."
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