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Language
  
English

Pages
  
xiii, 273 pp

OCLC
  
427117

Author
  
Clark Ashton Smith

Country
  
United States of America

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Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

ISBN
  
0-345-01938-5

Originally published
  
June 1970

Cover artist
  
George Barr

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Series
  
Ballantine Adult Fantasy series

Genres
  
Short story, Fantasy, Speculative fiction

Nominations
  
Locus Award for Best Collection

Similar
  
Clark Ashton Smith books, Fantasy books

Zothique 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 sixteenth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1970. It was the first themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines in the 1930s, notably Weird Tales.

The book collects one poem and all sixteen tales of the author's Zothique cycle, set on the Earth's last continent in a far distant future, with an introduction and map and epilogue by Carter.

Contents

  • "Introduction: When the World Grows Old", by Lin Carter
  • "Zothique" (poem)
  • "Xeethra"
  • "Necromancy in Naat"
  • "The Empire of the Necromancers"
  • "The Master of the Crabs"
  • "The Death of Ilalotha"
  • "The Weaver in the Vault"
  • "The Witchcraft of Ulua"
  • "The Charnel God"
  • "The Dark Eidolon"
  • "Morthylla"
  • "The Black Abbot of Puthuum"
  • "The Tomb-Spawn"
  • "The Last Hieroglyph"
  • "The Isle of the Torturers"
  • "The Garden of Adompha"
  • "The Voyage of King Euvoran"
  • "Epilogue: The Sequence of the Zothique Tales", by Lin Carter
  • References

    Zothique (collection) Wikipedia