Eldritch Friday: The City of Uu’m

A short piece inspired by #HPLovecraft's Dreamlands and #ClarkAshtonSmith's prose poem narratives.

#Art #EOS #EOS90D #Photography #DigitalArt #TheDreamLands #Eldritch #EldritchFriday #Fantasy #Weird #FlashFictionFriday #WeirdTales
#Phantasmagoria #WeirdFiction

https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/eldritch-friday-the-city-of-uum/

Catching up on S.T. Joshi's blog; he's working on a biography of Clark Ashton Smith, a third volume of Dashiell Hammett’s short stories, and "publishing the totality of Ambrose Bierce’s collected essays and journalism" with David E. Schultz, among other projects.

Capsule Review Archive – The Door to Saturn by Clark Ashton Smith

This review originally appeared on Goodreads on August 17, 2016.

https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-the-door-to-saturn-by-clark-ashton-smith

Capsule Review Archive – The End of the Story by Clark Ashton Smith

This review originally appeared on Goodreads on October 26, 2015.

https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-the-end-of-the-story-by-clark-ashton-smith

Eldritch Friday: the rising eye

#WordCollagePoem composed using lines/phrases from poems by H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Aston Smith.

#Art #EOS #EOS90D #Photography #ClarkAshtonSmith #DigitalArt #Eldritch #EldritchFriday #HPLovecraft #Phantasmagoria #Poetry #SpeculativePoetry #WeirdFiction #WeirdPoetry #WeirdTales #WordCollagePoetry #WordCollage

https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/eldritch-friday-the-rising-eye/

A fantastic little animated weird tale based on Clark Ashton Smith's The Flower Devil - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ku81gXGj0I

Question for my V&V peeps: I just finished Volume 1 of the collected fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith and was wondering if there was any interest in seeing a roster of 1930s pulp supers characters drawn from early CAS work?

divagate - to wander or stray from a course or subject

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The End of the Story. Christophe morand navigates the forest below the mysterious château.

ineluctable - impossible to avoid or evade

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The End of the Story. Christophe Morand finds himself drawn to the Château des Fausseflammes.

fain - with pleasure, gladly

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The End of the Story. Christophe Morand describes the sapphire eyes of a mysterious woman, the depths into which his soul feels drawn.

kitchen middens - a dump for domestic waste such as animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, shells, etc.

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The End of the Story. A satyr, confronted by a knight in the name of Jesus Christ, compares the man's lord unfavorably to the weeds growing on a trash heap.

incunabulum - a book printed with metal type in the early days of the printing press, through the 15th century. From the Latin word for "cradle." Plural "incunabula."

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The End of the Story. Christophe Morand visits the monastery of Périgon's astonishing library while taking refuge from a storm.

invultation - the practice of sticking pins in a wax doll in order to cause pain or harm to a victim.

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDat from Clark Ashton Smith's The Colossus of Ylourgne. It is rumored that the necromancer Nathaire will submit the townsfolk to dark magical torture.

lambent - (of light or fire) glowing, gleaming, or flickering with a soft radiance

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The Colossus of Ylourgne. The undead colossus's eyes flame like walls of burning brimstone.

mangonel - a kind of trebuchet called a traction trebuchet, used in Ancient China during the Warring States period, and later in Europe by the 6th century

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The Colossus of Ylourgne. The city of Vyones prepares for the colossus's onslaught.

energumen - a person believed to be possessed by the devil or a demon

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The Colossus of Ylourgne. The colossus zig zags across Averoigne, wildly destroying all in its path.

ordure - excrement, dung

#AppendixNLocutiobOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The Colossus of Ylourgne. The rampaging colossus buries the church of St. Zenobie, congregation and clergy within, in a hill of manure gathered from nearby farms.

depredation - an act of attacking or plundering

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smoth's short story The Colosses of Ylourgne. The colossus continues its spree of violence across Averoigne.

palter - to equivocate or prevaricate in action or speech

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The Colossus of Ylourgne. The colossus moves on to more serious tasks after engaging in some light boulder-flinging slaughter.

murrain - an infectious disease, especially babesoisis, affecting cattle or other animals

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Clark Ashton Smith's short story The Colossus of Ylourgne. Disease, celestial portents and great storms descend on Averoigne as Nathaire's plan comes to fruition.