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Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1944 Publisher Arkham House Country United States of America | 4.3/5 Goodreads Publication date 1944 Pages 419 pp Cover artist Clark Ashton Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fiction, Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Science Fiction, Horror, Short story collection, Speculative fiction Similar Clark Ashton Smith books, Horror fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
Contents
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.
Contents
Lost Worlds contains the following tales:
- "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
- "The Door to Saturn"
- "The Seven Geases"
- "The Coming of the White Worm"
- "The Last Incantation"
- "A Voyage to Sfanomoë"
- "The Death of Malygris"
- "The Holiness of Azédarac"
- "The Beast of Averoigne"
- "The Empire of the Necromancers"
- "The Isle of the Torturers"
- "Necromancy in Naat"
- "Xeethra"
- "The Maze of Maal Dweb"
- "The Flower-Women"
- "The Demon of the Flower"
- "The Plutonian Drug"
- "The Planet of the Dead"
- "The Gorgon"
- "The Letter from Mohaun Los"
- "The Light from Beyond"
- "The Hunters from Beyond"
- "The Treader of the Dust"
Reception
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."