Description: A Rendezvous in Averoigne - by Clark Ashton Smith. Arkham House 2003 (second edition). In 1927, H. P. Lovecraft wrote about Clark Ashton Smith: "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Mr. Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer dead or living. Who else has seen such gorgeous, luxuriant, and feverishly distorted visions of infinite spheres and multiple dimensions and lived to tell the tale?" If you relish horror or dark fantasy, and you have yet to discover Klarkash-Ton, you have a real treat in store. This beautifully produced Arkham House collection is a bejeweled corridor into the dark worlds of vampire-cursed Averoigne, Zothique of the dying sun, primordial Hyperborea (which, with its black, amorphous god Tsathoggua, is close in spirit to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos), and others. Smith is a consummate stylist whose evocations of lush exoticism and languid evil led critic Brian Stableford to call him "the poet of American Decadence," and yet his tales are also humorous--in a wry, macabre way. A Rendezvous in Averoigne collects 30 tales, with illustrations by J. K. Potter and an introduction by Ray Bradbury. Reprint of the 1988 edition with great new cover art by Dariusz Jasiczak.Very Good in Very Good dust jacket (a new copy with some postal wear, bottom edge bumped, glue spot on front cover, top of spine corners have small dings). Postage is $5.65 (in a well packed box).
Price: 22.95 USD
Location: Portland, Oregon
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Publisher: Arkham House Publishers
Edition: 1
Publication Year: 1988
Book Title: Rendezvous in Averoigne : the Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith
Topic: Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
Language: English
Illustrator: Potter, Jeffrey K., Yes
Genre: Fiction
Author: Clark A. Smith
Format: Hardcover
