PREVIEW PAGES
 
    
cover to issue number three,
Lost Worlds 		    

Release info:
Editor: Scott Connors
Release Date: 29 August 2006
Perfect Bound softcover chapbook
Size: 8 ½" x 11"
Length: 54pgs.
Suggested Retail Price: $15.- 		    
 
Lost Worlds
The Journal of Clark Ashton Smith Studies

Contents of Issue no. 3:
  1. "The Shadow of the Unattained" by Clark Ashton Smith. A previously unpublished (and thought long lost) Smith poem.

  2. "Clark Ashton Smith" by William Whittingham Lyman. A previously unpublished memoir by Lyman regarding Smith.

  3. Symposium: On the Discovery of the Lost Smith Works: Essays concerning the discovery of "The Face in the River" and "The Red World of Polaris," two previously unpublished Smith tales that were thought lost until discovery in 2004.
    • "The “Face” Behind the Mask" by Scott Connors
    • "The River and The Red World" by Brian Stableford
    • "Worlds Lost within Worlds" by Don Herron
    • "If Zothique had Electrical Engineers: Some Thoughts on the New Two" by Steve Behrends
    • "Evoking Wonder" by Mike Ashley

  4. "Satampra “Lefty” Zeiros" by Dan Clore. As the title indicates, this essay concerns the two tales about Satampra Zeiros ("The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" and "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles").

  5. "Amithaigne" by Ronald S. Hilger. A dissection of the poem of the same name.

  6. "On the Authorship of a Review of Ebony and Crystal" by Donald Sidney-Fryer. Mr. Sidney-Fryer revisits the topic of who wrote an unsigned review of Smith's collection. This topic was originally broached in Emperor of Dreams (1978) and opinions have shifted since then.

  7. "Reviews" include Smith's The Hashish-Eater and Other Poems performed by Donald Sidney-Fryer (reviewed by S.T. Joshi), Smith's The Black Diamonds and The Sword of Zagan and Other Writings (reviewed by Alan Gullette), George Sterling's The Thirst of Satan (reviewed by Richard Hughey), and From Baltimore to Bohemia: The Letters of H. L. Mencken and George Sterling (reviewed by Richard Hughey).

  8. "From the Vaults of Yoh-Vombis": A reprint of a set of questions regarding Smith from a college literature textbook (circa 1935).

  9. Also includes an Editorial by Scott Connors, a full-color interior reprint of the cover art ('Uranus' by Clark Ashton Smith), and several Smith drawings from Grotesques and Fantastiques (1973).