Clark Ashton Smith was one of the greatest. It is to bad that after the deaths of his friends R.E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft that he lost interest in writing and returned to sculpting. But he left behind an amazing body of work.
@paysonterhune2906 жыл бұрын
Chris Nelson I think hes the best of the three, just not blessed with "brandable" characters like Conan or Cthulhu....You wouldnt be Chris Nelson from Palo Alto, would you? Its a common name but I thought Id ask..
@vladimirremmirez76715 жыл бұрын
@@paysonterhune290 You're stupid, Clark Ashton Smith doesn't need brandable characters his writing is his brandable characters.
@TorinMizenko4 жыл бұрын
His fiction writing fell off, but he still wrote quite a bit of poetry. Some of his later poems are the best.
@bulkkington82814 жыл бұрын
Why not cremate the body or sink it at sea? Good story nonetheless
@Neverpaints20243 жыл бұрын
@@bulkkington8281 right? I was wondering why they didn't burn it!
@Sophiewimmer4436 жыл бұрын
"why dont we just burn the body this time?" NONSENSE! BURY HIM AGAIN!
@nikolaihanuschak1916 жыл бұрын
We could seal him in a vat of acid,,,,We could burn him,,,, we could dig a hole 10ft deep and seal him in concreate.....HMMMMM.....POPYCOCK I SAY!!! continue with the burying! LOL
@minimmats6 жыл бұрын
Julian Wimmer Given his seeming antediluvian resilience, I'm sure that would have only served to agitate him.
@bloke13482 жыл бұрын
Yeah I wondered about that too...
@Xbalanque842 жыл бұрын
@@minimmats Or made him laugh.
@towelgirl219 ай бұрын
"If we do it enough times, surely it will work!"
@bloke13482 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic underrated reader...and writer!!!
@guilledcf15476 жыл бұрын
very cool. you should have the authors name in the title tho. you'd probbly get more views.
@Dustpuma13 жыл бұрын
Theyir from the audible audio books theirs like 5 of them.
@Xbalanque842 жыл бұрын
Knygathin Zhaum is easily my favorite demigod in the Mythos. I like to imagine the warping of his face as it kept reattaching ended up looking like the Trollface meme.
@dogbeachdigest1139 Жыл бұрын
This story is an homage to the beginning of Beckford’s “Vathek”.
@joannewatts65013 жыл бұрын
Splendid👾.... .!
@nowhereman60192 жыл бұрын
Did the Hyperboreans not have fire or something?
@ryanrobison89739 ай бұрын
You know, I did note that the meal the narrator has was entirely without any meat. It was just some fruit I think. Was there any mention of fire in the tale?
@jaketurambar8003 жыл бұрын
I live for this shit. please tell me the name of the orator
@Arkanoid12123 жыл бұрын
Mmm, there are multiple candidates but probably Roy Dotrice, he passed sadly in 2017.
@tombofgiants36782 жыл бұрын
Narrator is Bernard Setaro Clark
@Xbalanque84 Жыл бұрын
@@tombofgiants3678 Thank you.
@louithrottler9 ай бұрын
@@Xbalanque84.....noobs mate, the voice actor (Double Shadow, Dark Eidolon, etc) is Fleet Cooper. (www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Fleet+Cooper)
@michelelyons94102 жыл бұрын
A marvelous tale, beautifully written and well told! However, it feels somehow unfinished, like the entire story had not been told. Of course one has to ask why the city guards did not burn the body of the man monster before it had mutated into something unstoppable. But aside from that, we have the narrative of a direct witness to the monster frightening everyone away from the city, but what happened after that? Did the people re-establish another city, or drift away to join other cities? Did the monster ever appear again? It seems odd that it would just stop or go away, since it had shown that it was clearly malevolent and that armed men could do nothing against it. Did anyone ever venture back into the deserted city, either to loot it or look for the monster? It is very unlikely that someone would not have gone back into the city, considering all the valuables that were left behind. So did they simply not return, so there were no tales of what they saw there? No gossip about people disappearing around the deserted city? The narrator of the tale seems curiously uninterested in anything after he, as a much younger man, left the city himself. No follow up as to what he did, where he went, what happened to the people or his own troops, his ruler. No speculation as to what the man monster was or why it scared everyone away from the city, but after all, did not inflict a great deal of carnage on the populace? It basically let them go unmolested when they ran away. And what was the "prophesy" that the executioner spoke of, which seemed to have something to do with the happenings of the story. We know, from the narrator's own words, that he lived to be an old man, so why was nothing further told? The narrator would have thought about this event for many years, so it seems odd that he would not have more to say. I have noticed this tendency with older stories. Many of them are beautifully and elaborately written and plotted, with fabulous imagery and ideas----but they seem to come to an end very abruptly. More like they were cut off suddenly, rather than brought to a complete conclusion. I don't know if it was just the writing style of the time when these stories where written, or if it is only the mindset of the more modern reader that wants more of a detailed ending to a story. But many of the stories of this kind seemed to end in a way that makes them feel unfinished, as if someone had snatched the pen away from the writer before he was entirely done writing. Even so this story was marvelous and well worth listening to.
@Xbalanque842 жыл бұрын
They literally said they moved their capital. Also, the city is reentered later (decades or centuries later, I can't recall how long offhand) in _The Tale of Satampra Zeiros._ Two thieves enter the ruins to loot them, finding only the formless spawn of Tsathoggua, all descendants of Knygathin Zhaum.
@jonathansingh8484 Жыл бұрын
Good
@JayTyme4206 жыл бұрын
So nice
@Arkanoid12126 жыл бұрын
;)
@towelgirl21 Жыл бұрын
Why didn't they burn the body? "I believe in science" my ass.
@ryanrobison89739 ай бұрын
I don't know if they actually had access to fire. Maybe it's a reach, but I did notice that the meal the narrator ate was without any kind of cooked food/meat. It was just some fruit/plants/berries of some kind. Was there any mention of fire in the story at all?
@ryanrobison89739 ай бұрын
Okay I just got to the part where they all have torches lmao yeah "scientific mind" for sure
@Xbalanque8425 күн бұрын
@@ryanrobison8973 Athammaeus mentioned torches being set up while his team was guarding Zhaum's head. Commoriam definitely had access to fire technology. Hell, I'm pretty sure the Voormis had fire, too (they were hominins after all).