Talk:Clark Ashton Smith
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[edit] CAS
I like CAS.
[edit] Cthulu?
Can someone cite a source for Klarkash-Ton writing deliberately in the "Cthulu Mythos"? I seem to have read that the Mythos was retroactively created by August Derleth writing stories that referenced elements in Lovecraft, Smith and Howard's stories. From the biographical materials about Smith and Lovecraft I've read, I can recall no evidence that they deliberately wrote in a shared world. -- Jim Henry
- The introduction to one of his Hyperborea stories makes reference to both Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth, while I believe another one makes reference to the Necronomicon. I'm positive on the first one, and not so sure on the second. Furthermore, I know that one of Lovecraft's stories refers to The Book of Eibon (which was first mentioned in the CAS story "The Coming of the White Worm", and also shows up in at least one other Hyperborea story) I'll check and provide quotes/citations when I get a chance later this weekend. 198.164.41.86 8 July 2005 18:49 (UTC)
- Here we go: "Ubbo-Sathla"
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- Before the coming of Zhothaqquah or Yok-Zothoth or Kthulhut from the stars, Ubbo-Sathla dwelt in the steaming fens of the newmade Earth: a mass without head or members, spawning the grey, formless efts of the prime and the grisly prototypes of terrene life.
- The important parts of that being Yok-Zothoth and Kthulhut. The same story goes on to mention the Necronomicon and Abul Alhazred. (Which means that it wasn't another story, as I had previously thought.) First published in Weird Tales, July 1933. While I can't say anything for certain about his other stories, I'd say that it's safe to assume that at least some of the Hyperborea tales are deliberately written to include creations of Lovecraft's. (In addition to the Hyperborea tales, I own the 1970s Zothique and Poseidonis collections. I'm pretty sure that the first makes no mention of any creations of Lovecraft's, and I can't remember on the second.) g026r 06:08, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Painting
Someone more knowledgable should include mention of his paintings and drawings.
Refering to Paintings and Drawings By Clark Ashton Smith
[edit] Death
Theres no mention about the place where he died,and the reason for his death. New Babylon 15:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 11:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Poetry
Did CAS write poetry until 1961 (i.e. all his life), as the section header states, or up until an earlier date? I found the header a little vague, as it suggests he simply wrote poetry his whole life, rather than through a particular period, as the previous section indicates.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Humphreyswill (talk • contribs) 00:20, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
- "Until 1961" was in the heading as a result of this edit by an anon who seems to have misunderstood the article's periodization of CAS's work. I've changed it back to "Until 1925." Deor (talk) 01:14, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
