The City of the Singing Flame
The best in Fantasy and Horror by one of the Twentieth Century's greats!
The City of the Singing Flame: A writer is translated into another world – a world of strange creatures, marvelous architecture, bewitching music...and irresistable doom!
The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles: Two thieves in the employ of a sorcerer steal the jewel-encrusted chastity girdles of the thirty-nine beautiful virgins of the moon god Leniqua...
The Dark Eidolon: Zothique, the last continent of Earth - where the sun no longer shines, and the ancient gods with their primordial sorceries have again returned to man...
The Garden of Adompha: Adompha, king of the wide orient isle of Star, and the court magician hold a garden secret – a mystery they share with no other...
The Hunters from Beyond: A San Francisco sculptor takes his craft beyond the limits of art – and into the unholy realm of the diabolical...
Contents:
- Introduction
- The City of the Singing Flame
- Hyperborea
- The White Sybil
- The Tale of Satampra Zeiros
- The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles
- The Door to Saturn
- Zothique
- The Dark Eidolon
- The Black Abbot of Puthuum
- The Garden of Adompha
- Xiccarph
- The Maze of Maal Dweb
- The Flower-Women
- Averoigne & Elsewhere
- The Enchantress of Sylaire
- The Beast of Averoigne
- The Hunters from Beyond
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Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories, and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937, that he is mostly remembered today. With Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, also a friend and correspondent, Smith remains one of the most famous contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales.

