Zothique (collection)

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Zothique
Cover of Zothique
Author	Clark Ashton Smith
Cover artist	George Barr
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
Genre(s)	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	June, 1970
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	xiii, 273 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0345019385
Followed by	Hyperborea

Zothique 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 sixteenth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1970. It was the first themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines in the 1930s, notably Weird Tales.

The book collects one poem and all fourteen tales of the author's Zothique cycle, set on the earth's last continent in a far distant future, with an introduction and map and epilogue by Carter.

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• "Introduction: When the World Grows Old", by Lin Carter
• "Zothique" (poem)
• "Xeethra"
• "Necromancy in Naat"
• "The Empire of the Necromancers"
• "The Master of the Crabs"
• "The Death of Ilalotha"
• "The Weaver in the Vault"
• "The Witchcraft of Ulua"
• "The Charnel God"
• "The Dark Eidolon"
• "Morthylla"
• "The Black Abbot of Puthuum"
• "The Tomb-Spawn"
• "The Last Hieroglyph"
• "The Isle of the Torturers"
• "The Garden of Adompha"
• "The Voyage of King Euvoran"
• "Epilogue: The Sequence of the Zothique Tales", by Lin Carter