Preview: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 4: The Maze of the Enchanter

Ross E. Lockhart | June 10th 2009 at 10:38 am

The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 4: The Maze of the Enchanter will be shipping right around the end of June, continuing our five-volume Collected Fantasies series. Today, the Bard of Auburn is best known as a writer of weird fiction, one of Weird Tales’ most prolific contributors, and a contemporary of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. But he was also a poet (one reviewer dubbed Smith “the Keats of the Pacific”), sculptor, and painter, in short, a twentieth-century renaissance man. To learn more about Smith (and see photographs of his art), we encourage you to visit Boyd Pearson’s excellent website, The Eldritch Dark. The Maze of the Enchanter includes, in chronological order, all of Smith’s stories from “The Mandrakes” (February, 1933) to “The Flower-Women” (May, 1935), extensive story notes by editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, and an introduction by the inimitable Gahan Wilson.

And remember, The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 4: The Maze of the Enchanter is just one of the many titles eligible for our annual 50% off sale, which runs through June 17. Just add four or more books to your shopping cart, then enter coupon code 50NSB2009 at checkout, and we’ll knock your final price in half! If you’ve been looking for an excuse to order the entire five-volume Clark Ashton Smith series, now is the time!

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