Genius Loci and Other Tales is a collection of fantasy, horror

Horror fiction

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 and science fiction

Science fiction

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 short stories

Short Stories

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 by author Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne...

. It was released in 1948

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 and was the author's third book published by Arkham House

Arkham House

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. It was released in an edition of 3,047 copies. The stories were written between 1930

1930 in literature

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 and 1935

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The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne

Averoigne

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 and Zothique

Zothique

Zothique is an imagined future continent featured in a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith. Zothique is also the title of the cycle of tales which take place there. In terms of number and extent, the Zothique cycle is the largest collection of stories written by Smith...

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Contents

Genius Loci and Other Tales contains the following stories:

1. "Genius Loci"
2. "The Willow Landscape"
3. "The Ninth Skeleton
   The Ninth Skeleton
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4. "The Phantoms of the Fire"
5. "The Eternal World"
6. "Vulthoom"
7. "A Star-Change"
8. "The Primal City"
9. "The Disinterment of Venus"
10. "The Colossus of Ylourgne"
11. "The Satyr"
12. "The Garden of Adompha"
13. "The Charnel God"
14. "The Black Abbot of Puthuum"
15. "The Weaver in the Vault"