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Hyperborea (collection)

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Cover artist
  
Bill Martin

Publication date
  
1971

Pages
  
xvi, 203 pp

Author
  
Clark Ashton Smith

Country
  
United States of America

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
1971

Publisher
  
Ballantine Books

Preceded by
  
Zothique

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Series
  
Ballantine Adult Fantasy series

Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Clark Ashton Smith books, Fantasy books

Hyperborea is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-ninth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1971. It was the second themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, notably Weird Tales.

The book collects one prose poem and ten tales of the author's Hyperborean cycle, set on a prehistoric lost northern continent Smith named for the mythological land of Hyperborea, with an introduction and map by Carter. One story from the sequence, the fragment "The House of Haon-Dor," is omitted. The editor also includes in the collection four additional tales of Smith's from what he took to be a similar but more fragmentary sequence of stories.

Contents

  • "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
  • Hyperborea
  • "The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem)
  • "The Seven Geases"
  • "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
  • "The White Sybil"
  • "The Testament of Athammaus"
  • "The Coming of the White Worm"
  • "Ubbo-Sathla"
  • "The Door to Saturn"
  • "The Ice-Demon"
  • "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
  • "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles"
  • The World's Rim
  • "The Abominations of Yondo"
  • "The Desolation of Soom"
  • "The Passing of Aphrodite"
  • "The Memnons of the Night"
  • "Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle", by Lin Carter
  • References

    Hyperborea (collection) Wikipedia