Wine from Atlantis. Fantasies, Nightmares and Mirages
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Mind-boggling unknown planets, continents that have long disappeared or have not yet emerged, traveling between worlds and times, in time and in timelessness, ruinous forests and deserts, terrifying creatures from distant galaxies, flower demons and corpse-eating demons (guess who's scarier), ancient sorceresses and ambitious necromancers who risk both soul and body, as well as werewolves, vampires who have risen from the dead, nameless monsters, petrified prehistoric nightmares, and stone that comes to life... Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was one of the three pillars of "weird fiction" of the 1930s (along with Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, and, of course, the creator of The Cthulhu Mythos, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, in whose stories Smith's fictions make occasional guest appearances), a follower of Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce. He melted fiction in the last fire of Romantic poetry and reached new limits of true horror - so the world learned what infinite horizons both fantasy and horror can open before us, and Smith owes much to Ray Bradbury, Clive Barker, and Stephen King. This collection features stories from 1925-1931; most are published in new translations.
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