Tales of Science and Sorcery is a collection of stories 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 1964

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 and was the author's fifth collection of stories published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

. It was released in an edition of 2,482 copies. The stories were originally published between 1930

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 and 1958

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 in Weird Tales

Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....

and other pulp magazines.

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

Hyperborean cycle

The Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea . Various elements in Smith's cycle have been borrowed by H. P. Lovecraft, most notably the "toad-god" Tsathoggua...

, Averoigne

Averoigne

Averoigne is a fictional counterpart of a historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith. Smith based Averoigne on the actual province of Auvergne.- History :...

 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

Tales of Science and Sorcery contains the following stories:

1. "Clark Ashton Smith: A Memoir", by E. Hoffmann Price
2. "Master of the Asteroid"
3. "The Seed from the Sepulchre"
4. "The Root of Ampoi"
5. "The Immortals of Mercury"
6. "Murder in the Fourth Dimension"
7. "Seedling of Mars" (after a plot by E.M. Johnson)
8. "The Maker of Gargoyles"
9. "The Great God Awto"
10. "Mother of Toads"
11. "The Tomb-Spawn"
12. "Schizoid Creator"
13. "Symposium of the Gorgon"
14. "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles"
15. "Morthylla"