#ClarkAshtonSmith

[dwellerofthedark]

HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION Day 15: 'Mother of Toads' by Clark Ashton Smith

[tenebraerick]

Happy Birthday to Clark Ashton Smith: #clarkashtonsmith https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXN1nHJtmn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[katiajewelbox]

Halloween Countdown 2024 Day 3!

What if Gargoyles weren't just inanimate stone sculptures? Any visitor to Mediaeval cathedrals like Notre Dame in Paris will notice the stone carvings of chimerical creatures adorning the buildings' exteriors. Centuries ago, sculptors created these whimsical monsters to ward off evil from churches and remind people of the difference between the earth and the divine.

However, what is a deranged sculptor ended up inviting evil into the church with his sinister gargoyles? This is the premise of horror master Clark Ashton Smith's tale of supernatural terror set in the fictional Mediaeval French city of Averoigne. Bloodthirsty, lustful gargoyles come to hideous life and wreak havoc by night!

If you enjoy ghost stories and other literary horrors, I highly recommend the channel associated with this video, Tony Walker's Classic Ghost Stories. In this era of endless remakes and franchise movies, I often think that film makers could create something fresh by delving into the archives of classic horror. This story would make a fantastic movie especially with the current CGI and special effects!

#halloween2024#Halloween#halloweencountdown#gargoyles#mediaeval#Cathedral#clarkashtonsmith#horrorfiction#supernatural#literature#classichorror#audiobook#shortstory

[spacenoirdetective]

Les Edwards, “Bishop of Ximes”

[notpulpcovers]

Lawrence Sterne Stevens. Startling Stories, Spring 1946. https://flic.kr/p/2dvWhBR

[uncannyfantastic]

Cover art by Bruce Pennington for Clark Ashton Smith’s “Lost Worlds, vol 2: Atlantis, Hyperborea, Xiccarph and Others,” 1974 paperback edition. . #brucepennington #clarkashtonsmith #lostworlds #atlantis #hyperborea #xiccarph #scifiart #fantasyart #70sscifiart #retroscifiart https://www.instagram.com/p/CMC38D_lNUQ/?igshid=1v28e1p6kni50

[just-swamp]

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Digitally working Spectre King's concept for the future book "Hunting a Process". #HuntingAProcess #Illustrations #conceptdesign #SpectreKing #characterdesign #project #book #enviroments #landscape #darkfantasy #ClarkAshtonSmith #Yondo #abomitations #process #ideation #execution #refinement #painting #drawing #inking #digitalart #creation #Lovecraft #video #JustSwamp #Illustrations #Sanctuary #photoshop @yordan_silvera https://www.instagram.com/p/CTGQOncgU74/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jahoctopus]

“And soon the shattered years shall rise To my remembered sorcery.” Happy Birthday Clark Ashton Smith, poet and artist and cosmic thaumaturge. #clarkashtonsmith #muthulan #folkhorror #cosmichorror #weirdfiction #weirdtales #lovecraftian https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_enAeH_bC/?igshid=s8wt6i11zrue

[mishflora]

“BOW DOWN: I AM THE EMPEROR OF DREAMS”

Clark Ashton Smith

[rainlandstudios]

. The Coming of the White Worm Project by #ClarkAshtonSmith! Part 3 of this process! Trying to replicate my ink process digitally by sampling scanned papers with ink, pencil, and gouache at different tones. I created a rough zbrush maquette to reference for this. . THE TEACHING SITE has been launched! Head to my bio for the link to learn more. There’s free stuff too at the bottom of the page! It just takes a moment to register! . . . . #vehicle #creature #creaturedesign #fish #illustration #digitalillustration #petersakievich #brush #ipadart #thecomingofthewhiteworm (at Rainland Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtuN_ZIFYI9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e6ej5aa7j1w7

[franknorbertrieter]

[dwellerofthedark]

PAN VAMPIRE HORROR: 'The End of the Story' by Clark Ashton Smith

[blackdeb]

✴️🐚 . . . #lostworlds #clarkashtonsmith #atlantis #atlantide #mondiperduti #dark #literature #horror #weird #fantasy #hplovecraft https://www.instagram.com/p/Br2rTZ-H2ua/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fsf7o20llrm

[graywyvern]

( "beautiful day in deep ellum" via nightcafe / via )

"Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler this year [1866], too, alongside Crime and Punishment, under contractual conditions that would have crushed most writers. Now there is some kind of heroism. I would like to read a Victor Hugo novel about Dostoevsky writing Crime and Punishment and The Gambler."

"also, i'm feeling sort of like a second-strike scurry" --@feelings_js

"No leaving for you and me."

“Tear Me a River”

Prepare thy shadowy car Prepare thy shadowy car For tomorrow a rebus For tomorrow a rebus Thy shadowy rebus tomorrow Prepare for a car.

My fardels outrun the thieves My fardels outrun the thieves Echoing to the battle’s roar Echoing to the battle’s roar Thieves outrun the battle’s fardels The roar to my echoing.

Fardels for my car a rebus To outrun the battle’s tomorrow; The echoing roar Prepare thy shadowy thieves.

(2004)

Monsters Once Roamed the Earth.

"The Nameless Wraith

As one who seeks the silver moth of night Where moonless gardens lose the afterglow, My soul went forth ineffably, to know Some vaguer vision unrevealed of light.

From halcyon fells whereon the falcons range, From Hesper, and the sunsets mountain-born, And From the trembling freshness of the morn I turned me to a dreamland still and strange.

It seemed the hueless ashes of the day And darkened glories filled that glooming world : The spectrum of hesternal suns was furled In immemorial valleys vast and grey.

Ruins, and wrecks of many a foundered year, Doubtfully known, bestrewed the unvisioned verge, Where, from unsounding reaches of blind surge, Some nameless wraith of beauty fluttered near.

Was it the dove from shrines of lost delight? The nightingale from love's necropolis ? What dream-led messenger of time's abyss Came from the dark, and vanished in the night ?"

--Clark Ashton Smith

Vision of the future from BYTE, 1981. Imagine the tiny floppy and keyboard.

[shochmonster]

Now THIS was a find. I love #pulphorror and these are both original dated magazines full of more than just #hplovecraft awesome. #robertbloch #clarkashtonsmith #horror #weirdtales #vintage https://www.instagram.com/p/BnzKD6hhbd0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3jz6d9kec8sy

[tenebraerick]

Thriftbooks finds: #amerritt #clarkashtonsmith https://www.instagram.com/tenebraerick64/p/CY6rRuJLzsf/?utm_medium=tumblr