| As it is Written | |
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Dust-jacket from the first edition |
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| Author(s) | Clark Ashton Smith (pseudonym for De Lysle Ferrée Cass) |
| Illustrator | R.J. Krupowicz |
| Cover artist | R.J. Krupowicz |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. |
| Publication date | 1982 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 125 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-937986-44-5 |
| OCLC Number | 9063610 |
As it is Written is a fantasy novel by De Lysle Ferrée Cass inadvertently published under the pseudonym "Clark Ashton Smith". It was first published in 1982 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,200 copies, all of which were signed by the illustrator. The book includes an introduction by Will Murray and an afterword by Donald Sidney-Fryer. The novel was discovered in the files of The Thrill Book magazine by Murray and Daryl S. Herrick. They mistakenly believed the novel to be the work of Clark Ashton Smith using Cass as a pseudonym. Murray showed the manuscript to Donald M. Grant and Sidney-Fryer who both agreed it to be the work of Smith. It was only after Grant published the novel that the error was discovered.
The novel concerns the adventures of Datu Buang who discovers a lost city and battles with ape-like creatures.