Writer and poet

Clark Ashton Smith

Poet-turned-fictioneer of Zothique, Averoigne, and Hyperborea. The most stylistically extravagant writer the magazine ever ran.

Smith’s English translation of Baudelaire’s Spleen appeared in Weird Tales in February 1926. Fiction cycles of Hyperborea, Averoigne, and Zothique followed in the magazine from 1928.

This page does not host the stories. Baudelaire’s Spleen, in Smith’s 1926 translation, is in the Founders’ Room.

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Weird Tales fiction. Poetry and non-Weird Tales markets omitted. Major cycle titles prioritized; some mid-1930s Weird Tales stories may be absent.

TitleFirst publicationCycle
The Ninth SkeletonWeird Tales, September 1928—
SadastorWeird Tales, July 1930—
The End of the StoryWeird Tales, May 1930Averoigne
The Last IncantationWeird Tales, June 1930Poseidonis
The Phantoms of the FireWeird Tales, September 1930—
The Uncharted IsleWeird Tales, November 1930—
The Empire of the NecromancersWeird Tales, September 1932Zothique
The Beast of AveroigneWeird Tales, May 1933Averoigne
The Holiness of AzéderacWeird Tales, November 1933Averoigne
The Ice-DemonWeird Tales, April 1933Hyperborea
The Isle of the TorturersWeird Tales, March 1933Zothique
The Charnel GodWeird Tales, March 1934Zothique
The Colossus of YlourgneWeird Tales, June 1934Averoigne
The Death of MalygrisWeird Tales, April 1934Poseidonis
The Disinterment of VenusWeird Tales, July 1934Averoigne
The Seven GeasesWeird Tales, October 1934Hyperborea
The Tomb-SpawnWeird Tales, May 1934Zothique
The Weaver in the VaultWeird Tales, January 1934Zothique
The Witchcraft of UluaWeird Tales, February 1934Zothique
XeethraWeird Tales, December 1934Zothique
The Dark EidolonWeird Tales, January 1935Zothique
The Flower-WomenWeird Tales, May 1935Xiccarph
The Last HieroglyphWeird Tales, April 1935Zothique
VulthoomWeird Tales, September 1935Aihai/Mars
Necromancy in NaatWeird Tales, July 1936Zothique
The Black Abbot of PuthuumWeird Tales, March 1936Zothique
The Death of IlalothaWeird Tales, September 1937Zothique
Mother of ToadsWeird Tales, July 1938Averoigne
The Garden of AdomphaWeird Tales, April 1938Zothique
The Maze of Maal DwebWeird Tales, October 1938Xiccarph
A Night in MalnéantWeird Tales, September 1939—
The Enchantress of SylaireWeird Tales, July–August 1941Averoigne
The Master of the CrabsWeird Tales, March 1948Zothique
MorthyllaWeird Tales, May 1953Zothique