Out of Space and Time

	Dust-jacket illustration by Hannes Bok.
Author	Clark Ashton Smith
Cover artist	Hannes Bok
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, horror, science fiction
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1942
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xii, 370
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Out of Space and Time is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by American writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1942 and was the third book published by Arkham House. 1,054 copies were printed. A British hardcover appeared from Neville Spearman in 1971, with a two-volume paperback reprint following from Panther Books in 1974. Bison Books issued a trade paperback edition in 2006.^[1]

The stories for this volume were selected by the author and were considered by him to be his best fantasy and horror stories to date. The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne, Hyperborea, Poseidonis, and Zothique. Smith had wanted to call the collection "The End of the Story and Other Stories", but acceded to Derleth's suggestion, an allusion to Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream-Land".^[2]

"Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Fantasy", by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei
"The End of the Story"
"A Rendezvous in Averoigne"
"A Night in Malnéant"
"The City of the Singing Flame"
"The Uncharted Isle"
"The Second Interment"
"The Double Shadow"
"The Chain of Aforgomon"
"The Dark Eidolon"
"The Last Hieroglyph"
"Sadastor"
"The Death of Ilalotha"
"The Return of the Sorcerer"
"The Testament of Athammaus"
"The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
"Ubbo-Sathla"
"The Monster of Prophecy"
"The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis"
"From the Crypts of Memory"
"The Shadows"

Reprints

Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman, 1971.
St. Albans, UK: Panther, 1974 (2 vols.).
Lincoln, NE: Bison, 2006.

Reception

Writing in Unknown Worlds, Anthony Boucher described the collection as "four hundred pages of magnificent reading", praising Smith as "a poet and a craftsman [who] has produced by far the best work in the Lovecraft tradition".^[3] New York Times reviewer Louise Maunsell Field noted that while most of Smith's stories were "overelaborated and far too wordy", the author had "an active, fertile imagination", concluding that the collection would please "[r]eaders who delight in fantasy and witchcraft".^[4]

References

^ ISFDB publication history
^ Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 23. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
^ Anthony Boucher, "Book Review", Unknown Worlds, April 1943, p.103
^ "Tales of Horror", New York Times Book Review, August 9, 1942, p.14.

Sources

Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 4–5. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 26.
Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 48–49. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

[1] ISFDB publication history

[2] Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 23. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.

[3] Anthony Boucher, "Book Review", Unknown Worlds, April 1943, p.103

[4] "Tales of Horror", New York Times Book Review, August 9, 1942, p.14.

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v t e Works of Clark Ashton Smith
Bibliography Deities
Short stories	"The Black Abbot of Puthuum" "The Charnel God" "The Dark Eidolon" "The Death of Ilalotha" "The Empire of the Necromancers" "The Isle of the Torturers" "The Last Hieroglyph" "A Night in Malnéant" "The Ninth Skeleton" "The Return of the Sorcerer" "Sadastor" "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" "The Testament of Athammaus" "The Voyage of King Euvoran" "The Weaver in the Vault" "The Witchcraft of Ulua" "Xeethra"
Collections	Out of Space and Time Lost Worlds Genius Loci and Other Tales The Dark Chateau Spells and Philtres The Abominations of Yondo Tales of Science and Sorcery Poems in Prose Other Dimensions Zothique Hyperborea Xiccarph Poseidonis Selected Poems The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith A Rendezvous in Averoigne The Emperor of Dreams Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith
Settings	Averoigne Hyperborea Zothique Poseidonis
Related	Cthulhu Mythos Cykranosh Philip Hastane Tsathoggua

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