The Book of Hyperborea Series by Clark Ashton Smith

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  • The Door to Saturn (The Book of Hyperborea #2)
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    The Door to Saturn (The Book of Hyperborea #2)

    Clark Ashton Smith

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2007

    Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive preferred text for Smith's entire body of work... more

  • The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan (The Book of Hyperborea #4)
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    The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan (The Book of Hyperborea #4)

    Clark Ashton Smith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 1932

    One of Clark Ashton Smith's best fantasy stories from Weird Tales, "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" chronicles the strange doom of Avoosl Wuthoqquan, greedy money-lender. Introduction by John Gregory Betancourt.

  • Ubbo-Sathla (The Book of Hyperborea #5)
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    Ubbo-Sathla (The Book of Hyperborea #5)

    Clark Ashton Smith

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 1942

    Completed February 1932. First published in Weird Tales, July 1933."There, in the grey beginning of Earth, the formless mass that was Ubbo-Sathla reposed amid the slime and the vapors. Headless, without organs or members, it sloughed from its oozy sides, in a slow, ceaseless wave, the amoebic forms that were the archetypes of earthly life. Horrible it was, if there had been aught to apprehend the horror; and loathsome, if there had been any to feel loathing... more

  • The Coming of the White Worm (The Book of Hyperborea #8)
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    The Coming of the White Worm (The Book of Hyperborea #8)

    Clark Ashton Smith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2009

    Evagh the warlock, dwelling beside the boreal sea, was aware of many strange and untimely portents in mid-summer. Frorely burned the sun above Mhu Thulan from a welkin clear and wannish as ice. At eve the aurora was hung from zenith to earth, like an arras in a high chamber of gods. Wan and rare were the poppies and small the anemones in the cliff-sequestered vales lying behind the house of Evagh; and the fruits in his walled garden were pale of rind and green at the core... more

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