The Dark Chateau is a collection of poems by 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 1951

1951 in literature

The year 1951 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.*Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus....

 and was the author's fourth book to be 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 563 copies. The book was intended to be a stop-gap volume representing Smith's poetry while the more extensive Selected Poems

Selected Poems (C. A. Smith)

Selected Poems is a collection of poems by Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1971 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,118 copies. The collection also includes several translations of French and Spanish poems...

was being prepared, although Selected Poems did not ultimately appear until 1971

1971 in literature

The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins the UK's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.-New books:*Hiroshi Aramata - Teito Monogatari...

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Contents

The Dark Chateau contains the following poems:

1. "Amithaine"
2. "Seeker"
3. "The Dark Chateau"
4. "Lamia"
5. "Pour Chercher du Nouveau"
6. "'O Golden-Tongued Romance'"
7. "Averoigne"
8. "Zothique"
9. "The Stylite"
10. "Dominium in Excelsis"
11. "Moly"
12. "Two Myths and a Fable"
13. "Eros of Ebony"
14. "Shapes in the Sunset"
15. "Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch"
16. "Don Quixote on Market Street"
17. "Malediction"
18. "Hellenic Sequel"
19. "The Cypress"
20. "The Old Water-Wheel"
21. "Calenture"
22. "Soliloquy in an Ebon Tower"
23. "Sinbad, It Was Not Well to Brag"
24. "Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts"
25. "Surrealists Sonnet"
26. "The Twilight of the Gods"
27. "The Poet Talks With the Biographers"
28. "Desert Dwellers"
29. "Hesperian Fal"
30. "'Not Altogether Sleep'"
31. "Some Blind Eidolon"
32. "The Isle of Saturn"
33. "Oblivion"
34. "Revenant"
35. "In Slumber"
36. "Cambion"
37. "The Witch With Eyes of Amber"
38. "The Outer Land"
39. "Luna Aeternalis"
40. "Ye Shall Return"