Clark Ashton Smith - The Black Abbot Of Puthuum

[@craigfulton3316]

The use of the language is pure genius.

[@buddyh9277]

Four years ago?? How have I missed finding this? Your narration is fantastic...Thank you so much for this collection of C.A.S. stories!!

[@RolandWieffering1]

I can't take any credit for the reading, I found the stories on KZbin and downloaded them immediately before they would disappear again.

[@missmiagi2147]

Yes! I listened to this on your channel a cpl years ago and loved it so much! Over time, I had forgotten what it was called and even went so far as to type in key words into a google search trying to find it again. Alas! I have found it! I will NEVER forget it again...this is my favorite Clark Ashton Smith story and in my top three favorite stories ever. Thank you! This made my day!!!

[@vantarinitel]

Thank you!!

[@n.b.2164]

Good tale. Poor Zobal at the end there. Ha.

[@Xbalanque84]

Someone get Zobal a sarcastic T-shirt talking about how he did the lion's share of the work putting down an ancient evil and his only souvenir is said shirt.

[@mayorlight]

Poor Zobal. Melee fighters get all the glory.

[@MagusMooresang]

Excellent narrative competency, and what a great listen-to, much appreciated sir

[@gasmonkey1000]

Another of my favorites.

[@seanjustinkvalsvig1581]

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 - August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the "The Last of the Great Romantics" Smith's was praised by contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures" one of "the big three of Weird Tales, with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft" The fantasy critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." A member of the Lovecraft circle and his literary friendship from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. "My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation." Clark Ashton Smith stated. Smith's self-education was to read the complete 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica at least twice. Smith retained most or all of whatever he read. After leaving formal education, he embarked upon a self-directed course of literature, Smith later taught himself French and Spanish to translate verse out of those languages, including works by Gérard de Nerval, Paul Verlaine, Amado Nervo, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and all but 6 of Charles Baudelaire's 157 poems in The Flowers of Evil. A fan letter from H. P. Lovecraft, which was the beginning of 15 years of friendship and correspondence. Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's place names and the names of strange gods for their stories, so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme. Smith was poor for most of his life and often did hard manual jobs such as fruit picking and woodcutting to support his parents. He was an able cook and made many kinds of wine. He also did well digging, typing and journalism.

[@nsob8897]

Thank you for posting this. I'm sure I couldve found information about him easily enough, but this is definitely worth reading. He was clearly an intellectual of a degree to make most of us jealous. I sure don't have that kind of wit. Anyway, I'm glad that he wrote so many short stories that I'm still discovering a new one almost every day. I love his stories the more I hear or read them. Cheers to Mr Smith in whatever strange heaven he may have imagined himself existing..if such a place could exist.

[@blakmajk3512]

Nice! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@nowhereman6019]

Wtf was with that ending. C.A.S. doesn't want anyone to have happy endings.

[@unclebiz8976]

The moral of the story.......women??!!?!?