Great review, Doc. This has always been one of my favorite CAS tales.Needless to say,I wholeheartedly second the idea of an annotated, mass market edition of Clark Ashton Smith's stories. I can just imagine the titles: THE COMPLETE ZOTHIQUE, HYPERBOREAN TALES, TALES OF AVEROIGNE, etc.Interesting to see how the WEIRD TALES TRIUMVIRATE lend themselves to varying modes of division: Howard by character (Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, etc), Lovecraft by theme (Cthulu Mythos, Dreamlands), and Smith by setting (Zothique, Hyperborea,Averoigne, Xiccarph, etc).
Thanks for the kind words. A lot of Smith seems to be in print currently, but I actually would like to see something like those annotated Sherlock Holmes or Alice books where side notes explain what a gasogene was or what the original song was that the Walrus is spoofing.
Yes, I agree that the big three of WEIRD TALES had enormously different approaches. I would kind of like to see a Robert E Howard character set loose in a Lovecraft story. You know, beating down the Innsmouth folk with a crowbar as they tried to drag him into the ocean, chasing after Pickman's Model with a Winchester firing...
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Yes, I agree that the big three of WEIRD TALES had enormously different approaches. I would kind of like to see a Robert E Howard character set loose in a Lovecraft story. You know, beating down the Innsmouth folk with a crowbar as they tried to drag him into the ocean, chasing after Pickman's Model with a Winchester firing...
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