Weird Tales

The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!

CLARK ASHTON SMITH (1893-1961) was the only one of his contemporaries that H.P. Lovecraft regarded with awe, writing: “In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, [he] is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer dead or living.” In the space of five years, Smith gifted the world with just over one hundred ultra-imaginative tales of “inconceivable fear and unimaginable love.” (And that’s not counting all the poems!) He managed to depict cosmic outsideness tinged with human fraility. (more…)