Hyperborea (collection)

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Hyperborea
Cover of Hyperborea
Author	Clark Ashton Smith
Cover artist	Bill Martin
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
Genre(s)	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1971
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	xvi, 203 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0345022068
Preceded by	Zothique
Followed by	Xiccarph

Hyperborea is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-ninth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1971. It was the second themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, notably Weird Tales.

The book collects one prose poem and fourteen tales of the author's Hyperborean cycle, set on a prehistoric lost northern continent Smith named for the mythological land of Hyperborea, with an introduction and map by Carter. One story from the sequence, the fragment "The House of Haon-Dor," is omitted. The editor also includes in the collection four additional tales of Smith's from what he took to be a similar but more fragmentary sequence of stories.

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• "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
• Hyperborea

• "The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem)
• "The Seven Geases"
• "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
• "The White Sybil"
• "The Testament of Athammaus"
• "The Coming of the White Worm"
• "Ubbo-Sathla"
• "The Door to Saturn"
• "The Ice-Demon"
• "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
• "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles"

• The World's Rim

• "The Abominations of Yondo"
• "The Desolation of Soom"
• "The Passing of Aphrodite"
• "The Memnons of the Night"

• "Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle", by Lin Carter