The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
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The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith is a transcription of a notebook
that was kept by author Clark Ashton Smith
. It was released in 1979
by Arkham House
in an edition of 2,588 copies. The book was transcribed from Smith's notebook by Donald Sidney-Fryer
and Robert A. ('Rah') Hoffman. Appended to the transcription are two memoirs of Smith by George F. Haas.
Notebook (style)
Notebook is a style of writing where people jot down what they have thought or heard at the spur of moment. The contents of a notebook are unorganized, and the number of subjects covered in a notebook are unlimited: a paragraph of autobiography can be followed immediately by one on astronomy or one...
that was kept 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 1979
1979 in literature
The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*V.C...
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...
in an edition of 2,588 copies. The book was transcribed from Smith's notebook by Donald Sidney-Fryer
Donald Sidney-Fryer
Donald Sidney-Fryer is a poet and entertainer born September 8, 1934, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and moved to California, where he attended university, and met Clark Ashton Smith several times...
and Robert A. ('Rah') Hoffman. Appended to the transcription are two memoirs of Smith by George F. Haas.
Contents
The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith contains the following:- "Foreword", by Marvin R. Hiemstra
- The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
- "A Note on the Text"
- "Explanation of Editorial Devices"
- "Index by Title"
- "The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith"
- "Excerpts from The Black Book"
- "Appendix of Finished Poems"
- "Song of the Necromancer"
- "Dominium in Excelsis"
- "Shapes in the Sunset"
- "Don Quixote on Market Street"
- "Soliloquy in an Ebon Tower"
- "The Isle of Saturn"
- "The Centaur"
- "Ye Shall Return"
- "Thebaid"
- "Appendix of Published Epigrams and Pensées"
- Two Memoirs of Smith by George F. Haas
- "As I Remember Klarkash-ton"
- "Memories of Klarkash-ton"