cover to issue number two,
Lost Worlds 		    

Release info:
Editor: Scott Connors
Release Date: 15 March 2005
Perfect Bound softcover chapbook
Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½
Length: 40pgs.
Suggested Retail Price: $7.- 		    
 
Lost Worlds
The Journal of Clark Ashton Smith Studies

Contents of Issue no. 2:
  1. "A Chinese Fable" by Clark Ashton Smith. Previously only available in the lettered edition of Night Shade Books' The Red World of Polaris, reprinted here is the poem as well as an image of the manuscript.

  2. "Communicable Mysteries:The Last True Symbolist" by Fred Chappell. An exploration of the use and meaning of Smith's symbolism within his poetry.

  3. "Brave World Old and New: The Atlantis Theme in the Poetry and Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith" by Donald Sidney-Fryer. Discussion regarding the ever-present theme of Atlantis (either directly in name or in the abstract) throughout the fictional career of Smith.

  4. "Clark Ashton Smith Collections in the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 1: Letters to Samuel Loveman" by Mark Hall. A listing of the holdings in the San Francisco Bay Area of letters from Smith to Samuel Loveman. Includes many pertinent quotes from and remarks regarding the contents.

  5. The Letters of Clark Ashton Smith reviewed by Brian Stableford.