EMPEROR OF DREAMS

From the vampire-haunted alleyways of mediaeval Averoigne to the shiningspires of dying Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith weaves his literary sorcery,transporting us to forgotten realms of necromancies and nightmares, lostworlds and other dimensions. In the enchanted regions of Hyperborea,Atlantis and Xiccarph, encounter malefic magic and demonic deeds beneaththe last rays of a fading sun . . . For the first time ever, this volume encompasses Clark Ashton Smith'sentire career as a writer. Smith virtually stopped writing stories in1937, for reasons that have never been satisfactorily explained, but heleft behind a unique legacy of fantasy fiction which is as imaginative anddecadent today as when it was first published in the pulp magazines morethan half a century ago.