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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1942

Publisher
  
Arkham House

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
1942

Pages
  
xii, 370 pp

Author
  
Clark Ashton Smith

Cover artist
  
Hannes Bok

Genres
  
Fantasy, Horror fiction

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Clark Ashton Smith books, Horror fiction books

Out of Space and Time is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by author Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1942 and was the third book published by Arkham House. 1,054 copies were printed. A British hardcover appeared from Neville Spearman in 1971, with a two-volume paperback reprint following from Panther Books in 1974. Bison Books issued a trade paperback edition in 2006.

Contents

The stories for this volume were selected by the author and were considered by him to be his best fantasy and horror stories to date. The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne, Hyperborea, Poseidonis, and Zothique. Smith had wanted to call the collection "The End of the Story and Other Stories", but acceded to Derleth's suggestion, an allusion to Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream-Land".

Contents

Out of Space and Time contains the following tales:

  1. "Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy", by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei
  2. "The End of the Story"
  3. "A Rendezvous in Averoigne"
  4. "A Night in Malnéant"
  5. "The City of the Singing Flame"
  6. "The Uncharted Isle"
  7. "The Second Interment"
  8. "The Double Shadow"
  9. "The Chain of Aforgomon"
  10. "The Dark Eidolon"
  11. "The Last Hieroglyph"
  12. "Sadastor"
  13. "The Death of Ilalotha"
  14. "The Return of the Sorcerer"
  15. "The Testament of Athammaus"
  16. "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
  17. "Ubbo-Sathla"
  18. "The Monster of Prophecy"
  19. "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis"
  20. "From the Crypts of Memory"
  21. "The Shadows"

Reprints

  • Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman, 1971.
  • St. Albans, UK: Panther, 1974 (2 vols.).
  • Lincoln, NE: Bison, 2006.

    • Reception

    Writing in Unknown Worlds, Anthony Boucher described the collection as "four hundred pages of magnificent reading", praising Smith as "a poet and a craftsman [who] has produced by far the best work in the Lovecraft tradition". New York Times reviewer Louise Maunsell Field noted that while most of Smith's stories were "overelaborated and far too wordy", the author had "an active, fertile imagination", concluding that the collection would please "[r]eaders who delight in fantasy and witchcraft".

    References

    Out of Space and Time Wikipedia
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