About

Smith (1939-2020) was a prolific English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror fiction. Mith wrote his first horror book, Werewolf by Moonlight, in 1974. It spawned two direct sequels. E is probably best known for a series of six Crabs books, the first of which, Night of the Crabs, was published in 1976. The pulpish nature of Smith's concepts and writing are legendary in the horror fiction world.

Smith (1939-2020) was a prolific English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror fiction. Smith wrote his first horror book, Werewolf by Moonlight, in 1974. The pulpish nature of Smith's concepts and writing are legendary in the horror fiction world. He is probably best known for a series of six Crabs books, the first of which, Night of the Crabs, was published in 1976. It spawned two direct sequels.

For many years, the artwork of Clark Ashton Smith was a mere rumor to most of those who read his stories and poems Like many of his current admirers, this book's editor first became acquainted with the artwork of Clark Ashton Smith through the tantalizing references that his correspondent and friend H Lovecraft scattered throughout his stories like malignant Easter eggs hotographs of some of his carvings had graced the dustjackets of Arkham House books, but these were themselves rarities and only served to tantalize the reader further.

At long last the veil has been drawn back n the Realms of Mystery and Wonder presents, for the first time, over two hundred of Smith's sculptures, paintings and drawings in all their wonder Included are paintings that he did for his well-known poem “The Hashish-Eater,” as well as drawings that he did to illustrate Lovecraft's story “The Lurking Fear” and his own stories in Weird Tales lso included are all of Smith's prose poems, including several that have not been collected, as well as memoirs and appreciations by Donald Sidney-Fryer, Fritz Leiber, Eric Barker, and many of Smith's friends and fellow writers.

Edition Details

• Oversized at 7 × 10 inches.
• Signed by editor Scott Connors with a facsimile signature by Clark Ashton Smith.
• Signed edition limited to 300 copies.
• All of the prose poems by Clark Ashton Smith.
• Introduction by Scott Connors.
• Rare artwork and sculptures by Clark Ashton Smith.
• Many photographs of Clark Ashton Smith.

External Links

• In the Realms of Mystery and Wonder. Centipede Press page for In the Realms of Mystery and Wonder
• Clark Ashton Smith (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Clark Ashton Smith